Educational Games for the Classroom

by Victoria University

The White Card Game offers an engaging and entertaining way to deliver training in CPCCOHS1001A – Work safely in the construction industry. Awarded runner up in the IMS Australian Regional Learning Impact Awards the White Card Game went on to win Bronze at the Global Awards in San Diego, May 2013. The Game offers a first person perspective that gets users to identify, control and report workplace hazards on a construction site without getting injured or causing the death of workmates. By creating a virtual experience of being on a building site, the game offers real life challenges, problems and risks yet provides a safe place in which to learn and explore. The game is a collaboration between Victoria University and Oztron Media, and is funded by the National VET E-Learning Strategy.

by RMIT University

The RMIT Hospital simulator allows students to adjust various funding parameters within a hospital and see their decisions visualised in real-time, showcasing their impact on patient flow and overall efficiency.

by Silver Solutions

@Stake Energy is an interactive stakeholder simulation where players explore competing perspectives and make decisions about energy development. Players weigh environmental, economic and community priorities, consider the consequences of their choices and reflect on how decisions affect different stakeholders.

by Edu Games

Turbo Lingo puts you behind the wheel on a neon highway. Choose Italian, Japanese or Chinese, then pick one of ten levels set in places such as the Riviera, Kyoto and the Great Wall. A word or phrase plays aloud and appears on the radio banner; steer through the overhead gate showing its English meaning before the clock runs out. Correct gates build your streak and add time, misses reveal the answer and come back soon, and traffic costs points. Earlier words return for review, a checkpoint opens an expert or scenic route, and every race ends with a grade.

by Edu Games

Someone collapses on the floor of a busy Australian café, and you are the nearest person. Check for danger, speak to them and touch their shoulders, then give two bystanders clear jobs: one calls 000, the other brings the AED. Open the airway with a head tilt and chin lift, watch their breathing and decide what it means. Choose compression-only CPR or 30:2 breaths, tap a steady compression rhythm, expose the chest, place AED pads and stand clear for analysis. Three scenarios change what you see. Finish by handing over to paramedics, then review each decision and every tap interval.

by Edu Games

You wake aboard Aster, a small orbital seed station carrying a garden to a new colony, and the lights are out. As its last engineer, with PIP the station intelligence beside you, you start at the power relay: turn the connector tiles until an unbroken circuit reaches the cabin lights. Each restored system opens the next repair: programming a rover to water the seedlings, tuning gears and coolant flow, sharing twelve energy cells, reconciling airlock interlocks, lighting a coupled solar array, scheduling the launch and plotting a safe route home. Every repair is a hands-on puzzle with feedback and hints.

by Edu Games

Spellaconda is a three-dimensional snake spelling game. Players read a definition on the panel, see the word with one letter missing, and work out which letter fills the gap. Then they steer a metallic robotic snake across a twenty by twenty arena using arrow keys, WASD, swipes or on-screen arrows, collecting the correct letter tile while avoiding eleven wrong letters, the arena edges and the snake's own body. A run climbs through four random words at every length from three to thirteen letters, with five lives, hints, spoken clues, calm or step pace and a bonus for the shortest route.

by Edu Games

Play a business leader making calls under uncertainty. Each of 46 levels opens with a photographed workplace scene and a brief: a product launch, a hiring window, a supplier audit, a fraud alert. Choose one of two to four approaches, commit, and watch a single simulated round succeed or miss. Then run 1,000 simulations to see whether the result was luck or a sound policy. Six chapters move from sequencing and repeated trials to sampling, collisions, risk reserves and signal testing. Every level ends with a plain-language explanation and an optional mathematical proof. Play the six chapters in any order.

by Edu Games

Startup City is a 3D isometric business game that teaches IT fundamentals by running businesses on Harbour Island. Start at the Corner Market: unpack a till, scanner and printer, plug cables into the right ports, fix a missing printer driver and make the first sale. Then open Byte Repair, Head Office, the Stockroom, Harbour Branch and Cloud Hub, where fourteen campaign levels have you upgrade PCs, set up accounts, build databases and networks, secure a working day, automate a warehouse, troubleshoot a morning breakdown and keep the city trading through a disaster. Everything is hands-on: drag, plug, configure and test.

by Edu Games

Aquarisim is an interactive aquarium simulator that lets players create their own underwater world. Start with an empty tank, choose its dimensions, temperature, water pH and substrate, then add colourful fish, plants, rocks and driftwood. Arrange each item, adjust its size and position, and experiment with different layouts. Watch fish swim at different depths and form schools while subtle lighting brings the scene to life. Explore species information and care guidance as you build. Save your aquarium as a downloadable file, restore it later, or enjoy an immersive fullscreen view of your creation. Design, experiment and discover at your pace.

by Edu Games

SumSurf is a retro-synthwave maths game where every wave is a question. Drop in at the setting sun, read the sum glowing on its face, and carve down the water past speedboats, jetskis, shark fins, swimmers and rocks. Then steer into the bubble holding the right answer before your board hits the sand. Wrong bubbles and crashes cost hearts; right answers build a streak multiplier worth up to five times the points. Three levels grow with the player: GROM (ages 4–7), SURFER (8–11) and PRO (12–16), each with stages of ten waves. Clear them all to be crowned CHAMPION.

by Edu Games

The Ethics Engine is a seven-episode narrative decision game set in the fictional city of Meridian. You are its civic steward. An advisory AI called LENS can estimate what a policy might do, but it cannot decide what the city owes its people. In each 15–20 minute episode you interview residents, weigh records and data, choose an approach, fund safeguards within limited capacity and explain your reasoning, then see what follows, soon after and later on. Scholarships, hiring, heat, water, academic integrity, research data and campus safety: every decision costs someone something. There are no scores and no right answers.

by Edu Games

**BASE INVADERS** combines fast-paced arcade action with mental maths. Players defend their base from a descending formation of numbered invaders while solving equations displayed at the top of the screen. The correct answer is hidden somewhere within the formation—but reaching it may require destroying other invaders first. Every wrong answer destroyed brings the entire formation one row closer to the base, forcing players to balance calculation, speed and strategy. As the game progresses, equations become more challenging, distractors more convincing and the invasion faster. BASE INVADERS transforms maths practice into an engaging arcade challenge where every calculation matters.

by Edu Games

You are entering an experimental facility built to study systems we do not yet understand. Inside each chamber is a phenomenon with hidden rules, unknown causes, and incomplete evidence. Your mission is simple: figure out what is happening. Observe carefully. Change what you can. Measure what follows. Form explanations, test them, and decide what the evidence actually allows you to conclude. You will not be given the answers—and you should not assume that anyone else has them either. The only authority in this laboratory is the evidence.

by Edu Games

The city of Lumen is going dark, and only maths can switch it back on. NEON // NUMBERS is a cyberpunk platform adventure for Years 4–9 where every obstacle is a maths device. Lay rail track across rooftop gaps, pump canal locks around sea level, mix coolant to power giant fans, program lifts and fire ziplines between skyscrapers. Six districts, one per school year, span 30 stages and six boss battles, from fractions to trigonometry. Wrong answers show what went wrong, MOCHI the drone offers three levels of hints, and fresh numbers every run make each replay a new challenge.

by Edu Games

The Research Integrity Game is a browser-based training game for early-career researchers, built on the Australian Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research (2018) and its supporting guides. In Mode A, you play a first-year researcher facing forty short, fictional but realistic scenarios: gift authorship, quietly deleted data points, undisclosed consultancies, ghost-written peer reviews. For each, you judge the conduct (fine, questionable, or breach) and pick an escalation move, then see how an expert panel and its level of consensus compared. In Mode B, you sit on a Human Research Ethics Committee: flag concerns in an application, deliberate, vote, and draft conditions.

by Edu Games

The clues are equations made of shapes. Every shape stands for one number, and the same shape is always the same number within a puzzle. In the Shape Lab, set what you think each shape is worth. Then work out the target and press SOLVE (Enter). The game will not warn you while you work. It only checks when you press SOLVE — so check your values against every clue yourself first. That's not a limitation; that's the skill. Made a mess? z is undo, y is redo. The shape's look never tells you its value. A hexagon might be 3 in one puzzle and 9 in the next. Only the clues count.

by Edu Games

BUILD. MANAGE. SURVIVE. YOU ARE THE CELL. Don't memorise the cell — make it work. Each mission drops you into a living system with a problem. Observe, hypothesise, intervene, and learn why every structure exists. Failure is an experiment.