Wide Ocean Big Jacket
LumiScore?Our 0–100 score for how developmentally beneficial and low-risk this game is for children. Higher is better.
Croissance
40/100
Valeur de croissance
- Lecture et langage
- Empathie
- Communication
Risque
FAIBLE
Modèles d'engagement
Très peu de pression pour dépenser ou jouer excessivement.
Attention
Conseil de parent expert
Play Wide Ocean Big Jacket together with your tween as a shared story experience — it's short enough to finish in one evening sitting.
Principales compétences développées
Domaines de développement
Représentation?Degré de diversité des personnages du jeu en termes de genre et d'ethnicité. Plus le score est élevé, plus la représentation est authentique. Affiché uniquement — n'affecte pas la recommandation de temps de jeu.
Test de Bechdel?Le test de Bechdel vérifie si un jeu comporte au moins deux personnages féminins nommés qui se parlent d'autre chose qu'un homme. Une mesure simple de la représentation.— Réussit le test
Multiple named female characters (the aunt and the niece) have substantive conversations with each other about topics other than men or boys — including nature, feelings, and growing up.
Conseil de parent expert
Co-playing opens natural conversations about the themes the game raises: first relationships, the gap between childhood and adulthood, family dynamics, and what it means to really listen to someone. These are exactly the topics tweens often find hard to bring up directly, and the game provides a warm, low-pressure springboard for them.
Ce que votre enfant développe
Wide Ocean Big Jacket is a rare gem in children's gaming: a quiet, literary short-story experience that prioritizes emotional intelligence and rich dialogue over mechanics. Its 10,000 words of thoughtful writing make reading and language comprehension a genuine core activity, while the nuanced relationships between characters — navigating adolescence, adult anxieties, and intergenerational connection — offer exceptional empathy-building and emotional regulation modeling. Children and tweens encounter authentic conversations about growing up, identity, and relationships without being talked down to. The game's gentle pacing and lack of any compulsive systems make it as restorative as reading a good book.
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À propos de ce jeu
An aunt and uncle take their middle-school niece and her boyfriend on an overnight camping trip in WIDE OCEAN BIG JACKET Take part in a classic camping trip: Roast hot dogs on the fire, go birdwatching, tell ghost stories, grab a beverage from the cooler and do cartwheels on the beach. WOBJ is a short story game including 20 chapters, 4 playable characters, 10,000 words of dialog and 8 explorable areas, all rendered in a beautiful 2D/3D art style.