Not everyone's ready to jump through classic Mario rereleases and fight their way through new Zelda epics, so if you have any little 'uns in your life, you might want to keep an eye out for Educational Games For Kids.
This family-friendly compilation is a bundle of more than 20 edutainment games that have been designed specifically for children and young adults. Naturally, it aims to both entertain and educate children in equal measure through reflex games, logic games, math games, memory games and knowledge games.
It also has a built-in statistics feature so that parents can keep an eye on how their child's doing as they play. Here's a quick feature list:
KEY FEATURES
- 20+ Fun Edutainment Games
- 50+ Variations Of Play
- Suitable To Players Aged 3-18
- Crisp, Colorful Design & Visuals
- Unlockable Dragon Game
- Fun Categories, such as: Reflexes, Logic, Math, Memory and Knowledge.
We also have a full list of those 20+ games:
1) Reflex: Riding a tricycle. (Ages: 3-4)
2) Reflex: Riding a scooter. (Ages: 5-7)
3) Reflex: Riding a bike. (Ages: >8)
4) Logic: Jigsaw puzzles with four variations. (Ages: >3)
5) Math: Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication and Division with many variations. (Ages: >6)
6) Knowledge: World Geography of Countries/States plus capital cities. Huge game that includes all the world. (Ages: >11)
7) Knowledge: World Flags. Another huge game with many variations. (Ages: >11)
8) Memory: Sharpen your child's memory. Three difficulty variations. (Ages: >3)
9) Logic: Mazes. Find your way out the maze. Five difficulty variations. (Ages: >3)
10) Just for Fun: Dress up a girl just for fun. (Ages: 3-5)
11) Just for Fun: Color many sketches just for fun. (Ages: 3-5)
12) Logic: Categorize the animals, birds and fish. (Ages: 3-5)
13) Logic: Categorize the colors of the objects around you. (Ages: 3-5)
14) Logic: Categorize the shapes of the objects around you. (Ages: 3-5)
15) Knowledge: Get to know the sound each musical instrument makes. (Ages: >6)
16) Logic: Learn how colors are mixed. (Ages: >6)
17) Logic: Build IQ by understanding patterns. (Ages: >4)
18) Logic: Is it a toy or is it food? Simple and fun game for young children. (Ages: 3-4)
19) Logic: Match the shape to its identical hole. (Ages: 3-4)
20) Knowledge: Learn and hear the number from 1 to 20 by popping balloons. Translated professional speech in eight languages included. (Ages: 3-4)
21) Hidden Dragon Game. Needs all games completed with 3 stars to unlock! (Ages: >4)
The game's now available on select platforms including Xbox One, PS4 and Steam, with the Switch version "coming soon".
Comments 19
Well, they certainly got that 90s edutainment aesthetic right...
Locking down that pre-order now! Bet this is the big Christmas title...
"The game's now available on select platforms including Xbox One, PS4 and Steam, with the Switch version coming soon."
ROFL 🤣🤣🤣
PS4 and Xbox One will have that Kiddie game very soon but Nintendo Switch version will be late ??
Anyway, interesting kiddie game.
I admitted it looks very cheap, very mobile games but i think it looks decent enough.
I saw some potential.
22) Just for Fun: Un-Dress a girl just for fun. (Ages: 18+)
But can Podd dance?
Meh, not really into this at all. As a father of four kids, I’d rather get these types of educational games/apps on their iPad. I guess for people with only one device, a Switch, this could be nice.
I assume this is a free download? I mean, why would you buy this if you can do all these things for free online in various fashions or download an app for it?
Eh, none of these are anywhere near 90s MECC, Brøderbund, & The Learning Company gems like Amazon Trail 3rd Edition, Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego, and Logic Quest 3D.
And yes, I chose those 3, because they're the best games of each of their respective companies. Fight me.
Looks like a collection of 90s browser flash games...
The publisher behind the shovelware palm reader, astrology and fruit slot.
FINALLY! A game for me!
Forget BOTW2, or Odyssey 2, or Metroid Prime 4, THIS is the biggest game this decade.
@Daniel36 : You must not have played much 90s edutainment games then. I quite vividly (and very fondly) remember the great edutainment games that I had played growing up, particularly those by the likes of Edmark, The Learning Company, Mecc, Headbone Interactive, and others. It is a complete and utter travesty that none of these games are still available for new generations to enjoy as the quality easily trumps the garbage that is available today.
The footage in the Crazysoft clip above shows virtually nothing of educational value and they look generic as hell. Mind you, I've played my share of crappy "edutainment" games as well, and the above would certainly fall into such a category.
I could be mistaken, but it seems that Leapfrog are the industry leaders in respect to high quality edutainment these days, but they require a dedicated device to access. I'm not sure whether Leapfrog develops all of their games in-house or whether they have third party developers like consoles do, but it baffles me that similar games aren't available on consoles, especially the Switch with its touch screen.
I seem to recall there being a few Reader Rabbit games on DS and Wii back in the day (among others) as well as some educational titles that were intended for older audiences (such as Ubisoft's "My Coach" series. People say that mobiles are the go-to platform for such software nowadays, but the quality simply isn't there as mobile users aren't willing to pay for it.
no tanks not worth the download.
This game looks like trash. Just tell your kids to play Cool Math Games or something, those games were my childhood.
Wow, even the ones for older kids sound extremely basic and rather dull. Whatever happened to good edutainment games like the "Carmen Sandiego" and "Oregon Trail" series? Heck, I'd even take a video game version of "Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?" over this crud.
@Silly_G Well, my Windows '95 version of "The Oregon Trail" still works on modern PCs. It's a rare game for the time that doesn't require an installation or even have any CD protection; just copy the files from the CD-ROM or from one PC to another and play.
Meanwhile, the DOS versions of earlier "Carmen Sandiego" games are still playable on modern PCs via DOSBox. There's also a remake of "World" now available on Steam, as well.
@BulbasaurusRex : My older Windows games are hit and miss (mostly miss, unfortunately). The Sims 1 works perfectly while The Sims 2 is unplayable and The Sims Stories games require tinkering with the configuration files in order to play.
Many CD-ROM games in the 90s didn't require installation due to limited hard disk space of most computers at the time, so there was no perceived need for DRM, particularly as most people would not have had CD burners in the 90s. No-one was going to install a 300MB game to a hard drive with only a couple of GBs of space.
@Silly_G No, most of my '90's PC games are much smaller than 300 MB (and our computer at the time had over 5 GB hard drive space) and require both an installation and the CD in the drive to play them. If I can get them to install correctly, then they'll usually work. The problem is that many of them use 16-bit Windows installation programs that no longer work on modern PCs. The installation can sometimes be worked around by doing it through Windows 3.1, which I've installed via DOSBox, but if it also requires the CD to play, then I'm still out of luck, since Windows 3.1 doesn't support CD-ROM drives.
Also, Zip Drives (introduced in 1994) could pretty easily copy the games if they had no DRM, and CD burners themselves started becoming popular in the late '90's. The late '90's was also when the Internet became fast enough that it was no longer unreasonable to upload and download most game files.
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