swap_horiz 3rd World Farmer Alternatives

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Labyrinth: The War on Terror

Labyrinth: The War on Terror is a strategic simulation designed to educate players about counter-terrorism efforts. Deve...

Strategy Simulation Education Counter Terrorism

9.5 Brilliant

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SimCity 4 (urban planning education)

SimCity 4 is a computer game that simulates urban development and management. It allows players to design and oversee ci...

Simulation Education Urban Planning City Building

9.5 Brilliant

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Nicky Case: We Become What We Behold

Nicky Case’s “We Become What We Behold” is a browser-based serious game examining the impact of media focus on emotional...

Education Browser Media Social Commentary

9.4 Excellent

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Tropico (educational use)

Tropico is a simulation game where players manage an island nation striving for prosperity and stability. It provides a...

Simulation Education Economics Satire

9.0 Excellent

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Nicky Case: Loopy

Loopy is a browser-based interactive simulation tool developed by Nicky Case. It facilitates modeling complex, interconn...

Education Browser Interactive Systems Thinking

8.8 Great

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CoderZ

CoderZ provides a realistic simulation environment for learning computer science concepts. Students utilize this platfor...

Simulation Education Coding Stem

8.8 Great

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SPENT (Urban Ministries)

SPENT simulates the realities of living with severe financial hardship. This browser-based serious game tasks players wi...

Education Browser Awareness Poverty

8.8 Great

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NOVA Labs (PBS)

NOVA Labs provides browser-based serious games developed by PBS for educational purposes. These simulations explore comp...

Education Browser Stem Science

8.7 Great

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Nitro Type

Nitro Type is a browser-based serious game designed to enhance typing skills. It utilizes competitive online racing agai...

Racing Education Typing Browser

8.7 Great

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BioDigital Human

Released by BioDigital in 2012, the BioDigital Human is an interactive 3D virtual body platform designed to visualize co...

Education Browser Anatomy Medical

8.6 Great

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VEX VR

VEX VR is a free virtual robotics simulation environment by VEX Robotics that teaches block-based and Python coding thro...

Simulation Education Coding Stem

8.6 Great

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BrainPOP GameUp

BrainPOP GameUp is a curated game-based learning hub integrated into the BrainPOP platform, providing classroom-ready ed...

Education Browser K 8 Curated Games

8.5 Great

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3D Organon VR Anatomy

3D Organon VR Anatomy is a comprehensive virtual reality application developed by Medis Media that allows students to ex...

Simulation Education Anatomy Medical

8.4 Great

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Fate of the World

Released in 2011, Fate of the World is a strategy game where players manage global climate change policy and its socio-e...

Strategy Simulation Education Climate Change

8.4 Great

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People Power: Civil Resistance

Created by the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict, People Power is a serious game where players lead a nonviole...

Strategy Simulation Education Nonviolent Resistance

8.3 Great

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Typing.com

Typing.com is a free web-based typing instruction platform serving millions of K-12 students with structured lessons, ga...

Education Typing Browser K12

8.2 Great

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Field Day Lab Games

Field Day Lab is a University of Wisconsin–Madison research studio producing evidence-based educational games for K-12 s...

Education Browser K12 Stem

8.0 Great

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Parable of the Polygons

Parable of the Polygons is a 2014 educational browser game created by Vi Hart and Nicky Case that uses movable shapes to...

Simulation Education Interactive Segregation

7.9 Good

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Spent

Created by the Urban Ministries of Durham in 2011, Spent is an online text-based game that challenges players to survive...

Financial Education Browser Awareness

7.7 Good

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Poverty Simulator

Poverty Simulator refers to role-play simulations used by U.S. educators and nonprofits to teach how limited money, time...

Simulation Education Browser Awareness

7.5 Good