Common Sense Media Review
By Carolyn Koh
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based on child development research. How do we rate?
Web MMO for tweens, but also on Facebook for teens.
Parents Need to Know
Why Age 10+?
Any Positive Content?
Where to Play
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Milmo
What's It About?
In Milmo, kids get to explore a series of islands and learn to fight monstrous creatures, dig for treasure, catch bugs, and help the people that live on the islands. Kids can earn titles and achievements in the game and play with others to help each other in quests. There are many items to be earned to customize characters and events with quest rewards that coincide with real-world holidays such as Christmas and Valentine's Day.
Milmo is available both through its own website for kids ages 10-13 and via Facebook for teens ages 13 and up. It also makes use of the Facebook Login to share passwords. Playing through Facebook provides the player a Facebook Page with tool-tips and the ability to use Facebook credits.
Is It Any Good?
The gameplay in Milmo is fairly generic, but actions such as switching to various other implements besides the sword, including the spade to dig or a butterfly net to catch bugs, add a bit of variety and quite a bit of fun. Kids also get to make choices in some quests about whether to help others. This is seen fairly early in the game when players must decide whether to help hunt down a sea monster or help the researcher to study it.
The look of the game will attract younger players, and the ease of the game-play is suited to kids as young as age 10. However, while this game can be played on Facebook, kids ages 10-12 should play it via the Junebud portal. The game continues to evolve, and as the developers strive toward country specific ratings and compliances, they'll also introduce more and more safety features and more transparency for concerned parents in terms of updated FAQs.
Online interaction: The game has been submitted for European PEGI and US ESRB rating and is not COPPA compliant, but has its own safety rules designed to keep children safe. The "bad word" filter is on by default and cannot be turned off.
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Families can talk about Internet Safety as it pertains to the features of the game. Yes, you can add friends to a list and "teleport" to them immediately, but you can also take them off your list if you aren't friends anymore.
Families can also talk about setting computer time limits as well as physical health and the possibilities of eye-strain. How much time should be spent playing computer games? What about other activities?
Game Details
- Platforms : Facebook , Windows
- Pricing structure :
- Available online? : Available online
- Publisher : Junebud
- Release date : February 1, 2011
- Genre : Massively Multiplayer Online Game (MMOG)
- ESRB rating :
- Last updated : February 15, 2023
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