Heroes of the Storm manages to be an attractive, fast-moving game that's both challenging and accessible by focusing on the core gameplay factors of the multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) genre. Summary: If your kid can commit to not playing with others, it's a lot safer of a game than if they do. There are certainly some foul people online, and though the Heroes of the Storm community is so much better than toxicity of the League of Legends and DOTA communities, it's still something that I would caution parents about, and I personally would let my kids play online with others until they are AT LEAST 15, but maybe even older. However, comparing that base content to what children are exposed to in online interactions is comparing apples to oranges. The content built into the game isn't that bad, or at least in my evaluation not as bad as other parents have evaluated it to be.

I let my 11-year-old play the game in a single-player versus computer-controlled opponents mode, and I feel comfortable with that decision.

Other reviewers have expressed reasonable evaluations in their reviews, but a strong distinction needs to be made between the content that comes with the game and what is exposed through online interactions with others.

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