Kid reviews for Kerbal Space Program

It's overall a great game, free of just about everything inappropriate, however, lots of the missions can end in catastrophic failure, causing rockets to malfunction, space stations to collide, satellites to explode, causing the deaths of kerbals (the inhabitants of the fictional planet kerbin, which is basically earth in the kerbal space program universe). No blood or gore is directly depicted, nor is death. There are no multiplayer features, making it free of swearing. Be sure to keep one thing in mind: It's an extremely difficult game. Even making a rocket or spaceplane that will leave Kerbin's atmosphere is an intense and difficult task, also orbit, let alone setting up a space station, going to the moon, or orbiting Jool (jool is one of the many planets). The learning is also good, as your child will learn physics, math, and problem solving skills.

I love this game. I am counting down the days until ksp2 comes out. I’m not the best at this game,but I love to build planes. I would recommend this app to anyone. There is a little bit of violence. The Karbals can get killed there are explosions. So don’t give this to a 4 year old. But there is no gore. They just vanish in a bunch of smoke.

This game is great! The models are really realistic, but the only flaws are that it's hard to use/place parts, but overall, it's fine.

Kerbal Space Programme is a sandbox game in which you can create your own space craft and fly to many different planets. There is no violence, sex, swearing, drugs or gore what so ever, the only reason I said it should be for 13+ is because it is so, so complicated. Believe me when I say this as there is lots of actual physics that you have to take into account as well as organise the staging of your craft and plot courses. This only scratches the surface of the complicated nature of this game. If you are looking for an easy game, I would recommend looking somewhere else, otherwise Kerbal is a very good game.

Kerbal space program is a great space simulator that helps kids get a grip on rocket science. I'ts very accurate and educational. It's even endorsed by NASA.

This game is great for kids seven and up, not because it's violent or scary it's just pretty hard to play and isn't for kids who want to learn with their screen time. In this game you learn about physics, aerodynamics orbital mechanics, money managing, geography and much more! If your child is playing on computer they most likely got it from steam, a online download system where people can chat, so have a conversation with your child about cyberbullying and not to give away personal info.

Ok well not always but its my slogan for that game
KSP is awesome! It does take some logicle thinking to proceed onward. Great game... for the willing. The game is very frustrating. Requires much trial and error before you get it right. I would recommend it for anyone who wishes it and has tried the demo. It takes me hours to do most of my missions. Designing, flying, running out of fuel,crashing, fixing, flying. Wash, rinse, repeat. The reason for my 2+ rating is because space enthusiasts of all ages should be allowed to enjoy(kinda) this game. For parents worried about your kids spending hours on this game it is completely your call to make. If you have some way to see what your kids are doing during their time I suggest you look. Like a Weekley activity report. Consider what your kids are playing. It's educational, requires out of the box thinking, problem solving. It takes a few hours to get a (maybe) successful mission completed. I normally get 3 hours of screen time on my personal computer (which I mowed lawns for cost me $600) During that time I can normally get 1-3 missions done or fail 1-3 missions

I have a little cousin, that was 5 when I got this. She laughed her head off when my rocket exploded into billions of pieces, and when a scraggly command pod with 1 parachute left falls to the ground with 3 little green men with the biggest frowns of fear. She had fun playing it, and laughed when her first rocket fell apart. I showed her me making a space station, and then it jiggled apart because of a bug, she laughed even more about that.

I was gifted this game back in March by a friend for buying him the game Rust a couple months prior. Since then, I have gotten about 150 hours on this game, and never had a dull moment. But being honest, this game doesn't even deserve 2 in ease of play, and with good reason. Because this game is trying to simulate actual rocket launches, albeit with advanced things such as the maneuver nodes, requires a LOT of controls. There have to be controls to control tilt and rotation of rockets, staging, thrust, EVA jet packs, RCS and SAS, and custom action groups to control engines. There are tutorials on all of this, but they are a little hard to understand and I didn't really understand maneuver nodes until I was messing around with MechJeb (A mod to the game). In all, the controls are very hard. That is the only downside I see to this game honestly. The modding community is great, when you learn how to do the different things it is super fun, there are a good amount of stock parts that come with the game and a whole lot more to come with mods, none of the mods are inappropriate (The worst one in my mind is BDarmory, a mod that adds various weapons to place on your ship, and while there is a multiplayer mod, it is designed for friends to play together and does not have an in game communication system, meaning you would have to make a steam/skype/teamspeak call to talk to anyone in the game), the developers are active, and I really can't stress enough how much mods improve the game. Also, this game does not deserve to be called violent in any way. It's so mundane it's basically not there.