The best family games like Super Smash Bros Ultimate are Super Smash Bros, Super Smash Bros Melee and MultiVersus. Below are 6, each with the reason it is here — and, at the end, what filtering to family costs you.
Filtering to family means the game has to work for a child and an adult at the same table without either of them being bored. That is a much harder design problem than a difficulty slider.
What you get: Something you can put in front of anyone. The best family games make the skill gap not matter rather than pretending it is not there.
What made Super Smash Bros Ultimate worth playing in the first place is covered on the full list. This page is the family part of that answer, and only the family part.
The N64 original, and still the easiest one to hand four people.
The competitive one — faster, more technical, and a scene twenty-odd years deep.
Free, team-focused, and unusually good at making two-on-two the default.
The most solid non-Nintendo platform fighter, and it plays properly.
Free, cross-platform, and easy to get anybody into.
The 3D arena cousin, where the stage and the furniture are the weapons.
Edge. Family games rarely go anywhere uncomfortable, and a few of them are too generous to hold an experienced player for long alone.
Specifically, these are strong answers for Super Smash Bros Ultimate that are not family games, so they are not on this page:
The full list is on games like Super Smash Bros Ultimate — 12 picks, no genre filter.
Super Smash Bros. The N64 original, and still the easiest one to hand four people.
No. Super Smash Bros Ultimate released on the Nintendo Switch, but a recommendation is only useful if you can play it, so the picks above span platforms and eras. What they share is the genre and the reason.
Age ratings cover content but not difficulty or frustration, which is what actually ruins a family session. Five minutes of unedited play footage tells you more than any rating.
With mixed ages, co-operative usually wins. The competitive ones that work are the ones where being in last place is still entertaining.
By hand. Each pick was written for the full Super Smash Bros Ultimate list first, on what the game actually does, and this page is the part of that list that is family — never a genre tag lookup, which is how "best racing games like Super Mario 64" used to be a page on this site.
Or read the family guide for where to start in the genre generally.