The Education Zone

Games and apps built to teach skills, facts, concepts, or practice routines.

Latest Standouts

Recent releases that landed well, newest first, filtered to games with enough reviews to trust the score.

Tidy Up History - Tidy Up History is a cozy cleaning sim where you inherit a chaotic museum. Tidy messy rooms, unlock new abilities, and find hidden keys to open new wings. Uncover historical knowledge to properly identify and showcase artifacts, returning the museum to its former glory.
Math-Havoc - Solve fast. Think faster. Math-Havoc is a rapid-fire logic game where every second counts. Chain correct answers, push your limits, and survive as long as you can.
AI Learns To Drive - Train AI to drive! Create your own neural network and watch it evolve from chaos to mastery with the power of evolutionary algorithms and natural selection. Fine-tune the learning process to craft the ultimate AI driver, and test your creation in campaign challenges or on custom-built tracks.
Emergency Call - The Firefighting Simulation 3 - Be part of a professional fire department and prepare for your operations. Complete training courses and drills during your 24-hour shifts to qualify for roles from attack crew member to engineer across various emergency vehicles.
Atomcraft - A sandbox adventure where every pixel is physically and chemically simulated! Build intricate, fully functional machines from the pixels around you. Harvest, react, and manipulate all 118 elements to craft everything from simple tools to complex systems.
Hacker's Journey - Hacker’s Journey is a realistic hacking simulation game built around scenarios written by cybersecurity experts. No Hollywood hacking. Learn the tools, techniques, and tradecraft used in the wild.
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Jul 21, 2026
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Cat Chess - Players say: Play standard chess with animated cat pieces, facing bots or friends in campaign, local, and online matches. Players like: Cat Animations · Cute Art Style · Chess For Beginners ·
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Play the ancient and thrilling game of Chess but with... cats! Lead your furry friends to the Purrfect battle of brains and whiskers!

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Jul 14, 2026
87% 👍
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Snacktorio - Snacktorio is a level-based cooking automation game where you build & scale food production lines to feed the beasts threatening to consume your world. Manage strange ingredients across sprawling cooking factories to keep the monsters fed while you uncover what's stirring their growing appetites...

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Electrician Simulator - Players say: Take electrician jobs in homes and a workshop, wiring fixtures and dismantling appliances to test and replace faulty parts. Players like: Satisfying Device Repairs · Relaxed Gameplay · Basic Electrical Concepts ·
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Take on the electrician role and learn the profession's basics! Install sockets, repair worn-out equipment, assemble broken appliances, replace light bulbs, and lay wires at your customers' homes. Be sure to check everything twice, with electricity there are no jokes!

Bio Inc. Redemption - Players say: Manage a patient's health from either side: diagnose and treat diseases, or build illness chains before doctors can intervene. Players like: Two-Sided Campaigns · Diagnostic Deduction · Strategic Case Variety ·
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Bio Inc.: Redemption is a realistic simulation and strategy game in which you make life or death decisions. Create a deadly illness to infect and torment your victim or play as the head of a medical team and hopefully find a cure to save your human patient. Will you be the plague or preserve humanity?

Two Point Campus - Players say: Build and run a quirky university: design campus facilities, hire staff, teach unusual courses, and guide students through each year. Players like: Campus Design Freedom · Relaxed Management · Quirky Courses ·
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Build the university of your dreams with Two Point Campus, the sim with a twist from the makers of Two Point Hospital. Build, hire staff and run an academic institution packed with wild courses.

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Aug 9, 2022
88% 👍
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Espresso Tycoon - Players say: Run a café by designing its space, crafting customer-tailored coffee recipes, and managing staff, supplies, and finances. Players like: Custom Coffee Recipes · Café Decorating · Relaxing Management ·
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Espresso Tycoon - a coffee shop simulator. Create your brand, decorate the coffee shop, manage your employees, and take care of your customers. Use the 3D coffee editor to create coffee recipes, order supplies, and collect rating points. Build the whole coffee business and complete all the missions!

Car Detailing Simulator - Players say: Run a detailing shop: wash, vacuum, polish and repaint customer cars, then restore and sell old vehicles. Players like: Relaxing Cleaning · Satisfying Restorations · Car Detailing Theme ·
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Car Detailing Simulator, you get a chance to renew any car and restore its splendor at the request of demanding customers! A nice and well-groomed vehicle can be the pride of every human being! Clean, polish and marvel at your creations in this highly realistic game where every little detail counts!

Brewmaster: Beer Brewing Simulator - Players say: Build a home brewery, craft beer through hands-on brewing, then design labels for your batches and enter competitions. Players like: Detailed Brewing Process · Creative Recipe Making · Relaxed, Calm Pace ·
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Brew your perfect beer in this relaxing home brewing sim. Use a realistic chemistry simulation to brew hoppy IPAs to creamy stouts. Customise your brewing space, create recipes and label your beer, unlock new equipment and enter competitions. Learn to brew, refine your craft and become a Brewmaster!

Animal Shelter - Players say: Run a dog-and-cat shelter: care for arrivals, treat illnesses, build your facility, and match each pet with an adopter. Players like: Caring for Animals · Heartwarming Adoptions · Relaxing Pace ·
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In Animal Shelter, your main target is to make your four-legged friends happy. Pet them, hand out treats, play with toys - and they will pay you back with great trust. Get to know the animals well enough to find them the best home! Don't wait any longer, open your animal shelter now!

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Mar 23, 2022
88% 👍
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Hacknet - Players say: Follow a dead hacker's automated emails, investigate his suspicious death, and breach networked systems through terminal commands. Players like: Engaging Mystery · Terminal Immersion · Strong Soundtrack ·
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Hacknet is an immersive, terminal-based hacking simulator for PC. Dive down a rabbit hoIe as you follow the instructions of a recently deceased hacker, whose death may not have been the accident the media reports.

Age of History 3 - Players say: Lead a civilization from ancient history to the future, developing provinces, researching technology, and fighting for territory. Players like: Era-Spanning Sandbox · Accessible Strategy · Custom Scenario Editor ·
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Grand strategy wargame where the destiny of Civilizations rests in your hands - will they stand united under your leadership or fall divided in conflict? Journey through the entire saga of human civilization, from its earliest days to the futuristic era, crafting your legacy age by age.

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Oct 23, 2024
85% 👍
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Hotel Renovator - Players say: Inherit a neglected hotel, demolish and redesign its rooms, meet guest requests, and handle repairs on the way to five stars. Players like: Creative Room Design · Relaxing Makeovers · Wide Decor Selection ·
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Unleash your inner designer and renovate the hotel of your dreams! Embark on a makeover journey to turn this worn-out place into a successful getaway. Play with thousands of furniture pieces and accessories, and manage the hotel to get 5-star reviews!

Bus World - Players say: Drive buses across Chernobyl, China, and Iceland, carrying passengers through routine routes, breakdowns, and disasters. Players like: Chernobyl Atmosphere · Disaster Scenarios · Varied Settings ·
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Bus World is a game about passenger transportations in various conditions, starting from standard days of a bus driver and ending with rescuing people who suffered from disasters.

Niche - a genetics survival game - Players say: Guide animal-like creatures across islands, breeding useful traits while managing food, predators, sickness, and survival. Players like: Genetics and Breeding · Cute Creature Designs · Learn About Genetics ·
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Niche - a genetics survival game is a turn-based strategy game combined with simulation and roguelike elements. Shape your own species of animals based on real genetics. Keep your species alive against all odds, such as predators, climate change and spreading sickness.

Hidden Gems

Well-liked but under-played: strong scores, small review counts.

Zniw Adventure - Zniw Adventure is a hand-drawn point and click adventure game with a strong 90's vibe and cartoon animations. Play as Zniw - a yellow female dinosaur who is on a mission to find the ultimate gift for her mother's hatchday!
Elfie: A Sand Plan - Elfie: A Sand Plan is a relaxing and intuitive puzzle game where you help a small ambitious elephant build some sand castles. Enjoy spending time at the beach with your new rotund friend!
Juufuutei Raden™'s Guide for Pixel Museum - Solve the puzzle and complete the art! "Pixel Puzzle" that lets you experience art and culture with Juufuutei Raden.
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Jun 4, 2025
99% 👍
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Prose & Codes - Explore the wonderful world of books through deceptively simple cryptograms. 10% of every purchase benefits Project Gutenberg, an online library of over 60,000 free ebooks.
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Feb 11, 2022
99% 👍
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Learn Japanese RPG: Hiragana Forbidden Speech - Dialogue changes from English to Japanese as you learn and progress in this comedic RPG backed by professional Japanese voice acting. This is a full 18+ hour introductory Japanese course and adventure all in one. Master hiragana, 136+ kanji, basic grammar, 240 common words used in anime.
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Dec 14, 2023
99% 👍
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Potato Survival - Potato Survival is a short story game about a character who lives alone on the open sea. Collect potatoes and try to survive for 21 days with the knowledge you gain daily. Unlock new skills to create a more meaningful day to day life!
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Oct 11, 2022
99% 👍
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Puzzline - Puzzline is a 2-4 player board game connecting cards like a puzzle! Each card has a unique effect. Play them strategically and get the victory! Online play is also supported!
Cat Slide Tiles - Move the sliding tiles to unblock a path for the kitten to walk to the exit.
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Jun 6, 2021
99% 👍
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4D Golf - Players say: Putt through courses built in four-dimensional space, using alternate views to find paths and account for shifting gravity. Players like: Higher-Dimension Intuition · Clever Course Design · Helpful View Options ·
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Explore higher dimensions... with golf! Conquer mind-bending challenges, design your own 4D courses, and unlock new worlds and accessories as you golf your way through the 4th dimension and beyond!

Freddi Fish 2: The Case of the Haunted Schoolhouse - So who is haunting the schoolhouse, taking the toys and practically scaring the scales off all the guppies?
Pro Philosopher 2: Governments & Grievances - The "Debating Sim" returns! Engage famous philosophers of all stripes, challenge their ideas, and change the world— or just tell everyone they smell terrible. NONSENSE!

Top Rated

Defining examples of the genre, all rated 85%+ across 1,000+ reviews.

Steam Engine Simulator - Players say: Operate a miniature steam engine by balancing heat, water, and pressure, then tune its output or power a city in optional DLC. Players like: Hands-On Engine Tuning · Learning Steam Mechanics · Realistic Machine Physics ·
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The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.

Sudocats - Players say: Fill Sudoku grids by placing cats without repeats, progressing from small boards to larger puzzles with optional number symbols. Players like: Cute Cat Theme · Relaxing Music · Cat Profiles ·
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Sudoku for cat people. Cats are wonderful creatures but you better not put them together without proper introduction. So, plan ahead to display them in the right order so they get along!

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Mar 14, 2022
99% 👍
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Wagotabi: A Japanese Journey - Players say: Travel through Japan as a language-learning adventurer, using Japanese in conversations, quests, puzzles, and study challenges. Players like: Contextual Language Practice · Practical Vocabulary and Grammar · Motivating Story Progression ·
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Wagotabi is an educational RPG teaching Japanese from the ground up. Immerse yourself in the language through interactive dialogues, quest-solving, and puzzles, all while exploring Japan and its rich culture. Will you become a Japanese master?

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Aug 13, 2025
99% 👍
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Chill with You : Lo-Fi Story - Players say: Work beside aspiring novelist Satone, using Pomodoro sessions, lo-fi audio, ambient sounds, and story progression. Players like: Study Buddy Presence · Focus Timer · Calming Audio ·
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"Chill with You : Lo-Fi Story" is a sound novel game where you work alongside Satone, a girl who loves writing stories. Customize lo-fi music, ambient sounds, and landscapes to create a focused environment. As you deepen your bond with Satone, you may discover a special connection with her.

The Powder Toy - Players say: Experiment with particles in a 2D physics sandbox, mixing materials, building reactors and circuits, or triggering chain reactions. Players like: Particle Experiments · Physics Interactions · Reactors and Circuits ·
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The Powder Toy is a classic physics sandbox game, which simulates air pressure and velocity, heat, gravity and a countless number of interactions between different substances

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Jun 14, 2024
98% 👍
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TIS-100 - Players say: Repair a fictional computer by programming its grid of tiny nodes to process data under tight instruction and timing limits. Players like: Constrained Code Puzzles · Solution Optimization · Satisfying Breakthroughs ·
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TIS-100 is an open-ended programming game by Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem and Infinifactory, in which you rewrite corrupted code segments to repair the TIS-100 and unlock its secrets. It’s the assembly language programming game you never asked for!

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Jul 20, 2015
97% 👍
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Pajama Sam: No Need to Hide When It's Dark Outside - Players say: As Pajama Sam, a boy enters the closet’s land of darkness to face his fear through point-and-click exploration and puzzles. Players like: Childhood Nostalgia · Hand-Drawn Art · Quirky Characters ·
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There's no reason to be afraid of the dark. Fed up with his fear of the dark, Sam transforms himself into Pajama Sam - world's youngest superhero and resolves to confront Darkness! With help from King the mine car, Otto the boat, and a host of fascinating characters.

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Apr 17, 2014
97% 👍
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Kerbal Space Program - Players say: Design physics-driven rockets for the Kerbals, then launch crews to orbit, explore planets, and build a spacefaring network. Players like: Rocket Design Freedom · Learn Orbital Mechanics · Trial-and-Error Missions ·
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In Kerbal Space Program, take charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. You have access to an array of parts to assemble fully-functional spacecraft that flies (or doesn’t) based on realistic aerodynamic and orbital physics.

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Apr 27, 2015
96% 👍
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Car Mechanic Simulator 2021 - Players say: Run a repair garage: diagnose faults, rebuild car parts, restore finds, and upgrade your workshop as new jobs arrive. Players like: Relaxing Repair Loop · Learn Car Components · Restoring Wrecks ·
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Work your way to a service empire. Get your hands dirty in a highly realistic simulation game that pays major attention to details. Pay a visit to a new Auction house and buy cars in various conditions. Expand your range of services by investing in a new work space and equipment.

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Aug 11, 2021
96% 👍
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Universe Sandbox - Players say: Build and alter star systems, then watch gravity, climate, and collisions reshape planets, stars, and their orbits. Players like: Open-Ended Experiments · Realistic Space Physics · Astronomy Learning ·
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Create & destroy on an unimaginable scale with a realistic physics-based space simulator. Explore the beauty of our universe and the fragility of our planet. Use science to bend the laws of gravity, collide planets, boil away oceans, fire epic space lasers, and customize your universe.

SpaceEngine - Players say: Explore a science-based 3D universe, visiting cataloged and procedurally generated worlds, stars, and galaxies at any scale. Players like: Vast Seamless Exploration · Detailed Space Views · Procedural Worlds ·
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The world's first science-based photorealistic interactive 3D planetarium that models the entire Universe, using procedural generation for uncharted areas.

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Jun 11, 2019
96% 👍
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The Farmer Was Replaced - Players say: Write Python-like code to guide a drone across a growing farm, automate crops, and unlock new tools and challenges. Players like: Satisfying Code Results · Programming Practice · Optimization Puzzles ·
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Program and optimize a drone to automate a farm and watch it do the work for you. Collect resources to unlock better technology and become the most efficient farmer in the world. Improve your problem solving and coding skills.