Give her Skyrim and show her the Nexus and see how long it is before she's a furry.

Very wholesome. Thanks for the share!

If it would help with loading times you could buy her an SSD for her birthday/Christmas present.

Love to hear it! My mom is in the same age range and still isn’t a gamer. I did have her play Journey a few years ago and she enjoyed it, so that might be a good option.

Something I haven’t seen mentioned is the steam family library. It’s been a while since I first set it up, so I hope it’s still as useful as it was back then, but it was a great resource to share games since you mentioned she was on a limited budget.

From what I remember as long as you aren’t trying to play the same game she can play from your steam library.

My mother got really into Stardew Valley for a while at about the same age. And like your mother, she didn't like the keyboard and mouse. She ended up going with a USB SNES controller knockoff and was very happy with it.

She got into Minetest for a while too. Preferred creative mode, mostly.

She is not a fan of 30 minute lets plays with intros/outros.

SAME. Maybe it's an old person thing.

Sounds like she's ready for Elden Ring. Let's go 👏😂

Back when we were kids if there was a quick time event you couldn't beat, we quit the game!

Or just have a family member/friend to do it for you. I had to ask my older sister to beat the rock gym for me in Pokemon yellow because only my Pikachu was leveled up and I didn't understand types and resistance/weaknesses. Worst case scenario, you'd hit up that one friend who has an action replay

Thank you for sharing.

My dad got into gaming recently. It’s cute until they start asking for help doing things they don’t have the hand dexterity to do themselves lol

Always fun to see all those things happen. And I may as well comment on the individual points.

1. That is always the case, you have to know where to find what you want. It could be better though with more places having access even if all it does it point to steam.
2. Neat!
3. Hehe, suddenly that old wired connection and fast internet don't seem so useless. So many people have been there.
4. Controllers go many ways, mouse and keyboard certainly have a specific learning curve while a controller may be a bit more intuitive. But the keyboard and mouse is always there if you need it.
5. Right... Difficulty is a personal choice and to add a bit of personal story about that. Back when I way a kid and you got to a stupid hard part that you couldn't beat, you tried again until you did beat it. We didn't quit because we didn't really have other games to play so even if it was stupid hard and was bad you kinda had to stick with it. And games back then really got stupid hard. Elden ring looks easy in comparison.
6. Community interaction is nice when it's positive like that. And finding the info that makes it more fun for you always helps. Even if it stops you from discovering some of the smarter things yourself and may even rob you of a surprise.
7. Load times... Nuff said.

This was super wholesome! Thanks for this

Lovely, truly.

Thank you for sharing this, really. I am in a similar situation myself and it's very reassuring (and amusing) to hear stories like these! :)

Wouldn't mind some game recommendations, too ;)

Get her a tplink ethernet powerline pass through adapter.

It uses the house copper wiring to connect two ethernet ports you can getbpretty decent speeds