Disclosure: I'm Aleksei Martiushin. I run Raising Stoics, a site for parents of kids ages 4–8, and I built the dataset described below.

Parents of young kids keep asking the same question about games, apps, and shows: "Is this OK for my 6-year-old?" The facts that answer it are public, but they are scattered. The ESRB rating sits on one site, PEGI on another, in-app purchases on the store listing, a loot box mechanic in the rating descriptors, and an FTC settlement in a press release.

We pulled those facts into two small datasets and published them on Zenodo under CC BY 4.0 with DOIs. This post covers how they're structured, how the values were chosen, what a row looks like, and where the data is weak.

The two datasets

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