Here are our top tips for the best family games this year:

Families are big business for video game makers and each year there are hundreds of games promising to deliver experiences that children will love and parents will happily pay for. However, the real gems are games that get the whole family playing together. These can be harder to find so here’s a comprehensive list of games that will be important to families in 2017.

Knack 2 (PS4)
Sea of Thieves (Xbox One, PC)
Lego Dimensions (PS4, Xbox One, PS3, Xbox 360, Wii U)
Arms (Switch)
Lego City Undercover (PS4, Xbox One, Switch)
Super Mario Odyssey (Switch)
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Switch)
Skylanders 2017 (PS4, Xbox One, Wii U, PS3, Xbox 360, Switch)
Gran Turismo Sport (PS4, PSVR)
Spider-Man (PS4)
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Wii U, Switch)
Light Seekers (iOS, Android)
Portal Knights (PC)
Fire Emblem Heroes (iOS)
Animal Crossing (iOS)
Alto’s Odyssey (Android iOS)
Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles (PS4 and PC)
Football Manager Touch
Halo Wars 2 (Xbox One, Windows)
Yooka-Laylee (Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, PC)
Splatoon 2 (Nintendo Switch)
RiME (Nintendo Switch, Windows PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4)
LEGO Worlds (PS4, Xbox One, PC)

Here’s our huge list of games to watch out for in 2016. These top games include Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo, PC, Mac, iOS, Anbdroid platforms to make sure you know what’s hot for 2016 video-games.

12 Minutes XB1,PS4,WIN,OSX
Abzû PS4,WIN
Adrift XB1,PS4,WIN
Allison Road XB1,PS4,WIN,OSX,Linux
Ark: Survival Evolved XB1,PS4,WIN,OSX,LINUX
Astroneer WIN
Batman: A Telltale Games Series TBA(XB1,PS4,WIN,iOS,Android)
Battleborn XB1,PS4,WIN
Below XB1,WIN
Block’Hood WIN
Bombernauts WIN,OSX,Linux
Call of Duty XB1,PS4,WIN
Check In Knock Out WIN
Cogmind WIN
Courier of the Crypts WIN
Crackdown 3 XB1
Cryptark WIN
Cuphead XB1,WIN
Darkest Dungeon WIN
Dark Souls III XB1,PS4,WIN
Dead Island 2 XB1,PS4,WIN
Dead Realm WIN
Detroit: Become Human PS4
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided XB1,PS4,WIN
Dishonored 2 XB1,PS4,WIN
Disney Infinity 4.0 XB1,PS4,WiiU,iOS,AppleTV,WIN
Divinity: Original Sin 2 WIN
Doom XB1,PS4,WIN
Dragon Quest XI: In Search of Departed Time PS4,3DS
Drifter PS4,VITA,WIN
Due Process WIN
Dungeon Souls WIN
Duskers WIN
Endless Space 2 WIN
Enemy Starfighter WIN
Ernesto WIN,OSX,iOS,Android
Fable Legends XB1,WIN
Far Cry Primal XB1,PS4,WIN
FIFA 17 XB1,PS4,WIN
Final Fantasy XV XB1,PS4
Fire Emblem Fates 3DS
Firewatch PS4,WIN,OSX,Linux
Flamberge WIN
For Honour XB1,PS4,WIN
Fortnite WIN
Gang Beasts WIN
Gears of War 4 XB1
Glitchspace WIN
Halo Wars 2 XB1,WIN
Hellblade PS4,WIN
Hitman XB1,PS4,WIN
Home Free PS4
Homefront: The Revolution XB1,PS4,WIN
Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak WIN
Horizon Zero Dawn PS4
Hyper Light Drifter XB1,PS4,WIN,OSX
Hyrule Warriors Legends 3DS
Inside XB1,360,PS4,PS3,WIN,OSX
Krautscape WIN,OSX
LawBreakers WIN
Lego Dimensions Expansions XB1,360,PS4,PS3,WiiU
Lego Marvel’s Avengers XB1,360,PS4,PS3,WIN
Lego Worlds WIN
Lethal Tactics WIN
Liege PS4,WIIU,WIN
Mafia III XB1,PS4,WINOSX
Mass Effect: Andromeda XB1,PS4,WIN
Matterfall PS4
Metroid Prime: Federation Force 3DS
Miegakure PS4,WIN,OSX,Linux
Mighty No. 9 XB1,PS4,WIIU,3DS,WIN
Mirror’s Edge Catalyst XB1,PS4,WIN
Nier: Automata PS4
Night In The Woods PS4,WIN,OSX,Linux
No Man’s Sky PS4,WIN
Obduction WIN,OSX
Overland WIN,OSX,Linux
Overwatch XB1,PS4,WIN
Oxenfree XB1,PS4,WIN,OSX
Paradise Never WIN,OSX,Linux
Parkitect WIN,OSX,Linux
Persona 5 PS4,PS3
Planet Coaster WIN
Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2 XB1,PS4,WIN
Pokémon GO iOS,Android
Pokkén Tournament WiiU
Quantum Break XB1
Ratchet & Clank PS4
ReCore XB1
Return of the Obra Dinn WIN
Rime PS4
Rising Thunder WIN
Routine WIN
Salt & Sanctuary PS4,VITA
Severed
Skylanders 6 XB1,360,PS4,PS3,WiiU
Speedrunners WIN
Spy Party WIN
Squad WIN
Star Crawlers WIN
Star Fox Zero WiiU
Stellaris WIN
Stephen’s Sausage Roll WIN
Strafe WIN
Street Fighter V PC,PS4
Sub Rosa WIN
Super Blood Hockey WIN
Superhot XB1,WIN,OSX,Linux
Tacoma WIN
Tekken 7 PS4
The Banner Saga 2 XB1,PS4,VITA,WIN,OSX,Linux,iOS,Android
The Climb WIN
The Last Guardian PS4
The Legend of Zelda Wii U WiiU
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD WiiU
The Long Dark WIN
The Tomorrow Children PS4
Treasurenauts 3DS
The Walking Dead: Michonne XB1,PS4,WIN,OSX,iOS,Android
The Witness PS4
This War of Mine: The Little Ones XB1,PS4
Thumper PS4,WIN
Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Wildlands XB1,PS4,WIN
Tom Clancy’s The Division XB1,PS4,WIN
Tooth & Tail WIN,OSX,Linux
Total War: Warhammer WIN,OSX,Linux
Trackmania Turbo XB1,PS4,WIN
Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End PS4
Unravel XB1,PS4,WIN
Vector PS4
Way To The Woods WIN
We Happy Few XB1,WIN,OSX,Linux
What Remains of Edith Finch PS4
WiLD PS4
XCOM 2 WIN,OSX,Linux
Yakuza 6 PS4
Yooka XB1,PS4,WiiU,WIN,OSX,Linux

Fold the World is an innovative and addictive 3D puzzle game based on the physics of paper.
The game is an exploration of “Paper Kingdom”, a magnificent storybook world, with exciting and unique plot twists behind every fold.Guide Yolo, our springy hero, through 60 beautifully crafted puzzles and across 3 surreal worlds, to uncover hidden paths and defeat the Lord of Darkness. Fold the World meshes the physical and digital worlds, while keeping players of all ages engaged in its enigmatic and fun gameplay.

A tribute to the history of paper, from the ancient tradition of origami to classic children’s pop-up books to the age of the iPad, each level in Fold the World is a unique experience and a work of art. The game evokes a sense of nostalgia, while introducing a younger generation to the traditional and always-magical world of pop-up books. Each and every level has been carefully crafted by hand with actual paper, play-tested and, only then, recreated digitally. Each puzzle holds hidden layers of clues and correlates with a chapter in the app’s quirky and entertaining tale, resulting in an intricate and captivating journey from start to finish.

The Pokémon Company, Niantic and Nintendo are collaborating on a new mobile game, Pokémon GO, to release on iOS and Android in 2016.

The experience is augmented by a wearable Pokémon Go Plus gadget that appears to use smartphone GPS location to alert players when they are near Pokemon to catch. Developed by Nintendo, it uses haptic and light-up alerts can be responded to by pressing a button that triggers in-game actions like catching a Pokémon.