Free Educational Games

Educational institutes, teachers and parents rely on free educational games to help their kids develop the essential skills kids need for life. Free Educational Games are very effective way of holding kids attention. The free educational games are an extension of their play time while they learn social skills and coordination. Intellectual skills will grow also with the advancement of these other life tools. As they learn to function and develop they will be open to more learning. It may seem like fun for young children but it is part of the lesson plans for their teachers.

Many children learn to count and read before they enter school because of the games they have played at home. We have listed free educational games and free-to-try educational games on this page below -

Match Maker 1.0
Publisher : KIDware : http://www.kidwaresoftware.com
This program helps your child learn to identify and match letters, numbers, colors, shapes, objects, and animals. You can match uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers and objects, pictures with pictures, or pictures with names. This is a fun memory exercise for young children.
Price : Free
Category : Free Educational Games

AbcPuzzles
Publisher : Ixis : http://www.softheap.com
Free games and logic puzzles are fun for games lovers. AbcPuzzles is one of them, it offers two variations of puzzles on tile-based games. Each uses the same basic engine, in which you move the tiles in groups of four or more by spinning them with the control located in the corner where four tiles touch. Much like Rubik's Cube in two dimensions, the games are harder than they first look since you must get the tiles properly aligned without disrupting your previous work. AlterJig uses images, scrambling the inner blocks but leaving the outside one intact. Five images are provided, and your own properly formatted bitmaps can be used to create your own puzzles. Cyclanoid is similar, but your task is to arrange the tiles in rows to match the icons displayed along the game-area border.
Price : Free
Category : Free Educational Games

Fun Factory
Publisher : Industrial Control Electronics : http://www.pc-calendars.com/
Publisher Description : A selection of fun and games educational software for young children learning about the PC computer. The games start at the simplest level of matching sounds to pictures and go on to test spelling and arthimetic skills. Each game is in the form of a jigsaw puzzle. Each right answer reveals more of the main picture, but get it wrong and you are back to the start! The software is written in such a way as to make it difficult for a young child to cause any damage or loss of information while playing on the PC. A password feature is key to stopping the child closing Fun Factory and browsing the main computer."
Price : Free To Try / Shareware
Category : Free Educational Games

Math Men From Mars
Publisher : MouseBed : http://www.katachess.com/
Introduce your child to math and fun with a funny adventure game. Help the little Math Man explore many worlds as he interacts with educational and fun characters. For ages 2 to 10. Make the Math Man follow the mouse and your child will click their way to math and fun.
Price : Free To Try / Shareware
Category : Free Educational Games

Classroom Chaos
Publisher : Hanako Games : http://www.hanakogames.com/
Classroom Chaos is a fun action/strategy game. You play a substitute teacher, hired to teach a class of girls for one week. You must try to make them behave and raise their grades before the week is up. However, there's more to being a good teacher than discipline. Choose from lesson plans or rearrange the class to keep troublemakers apart.
Price : Free To Try / Shareware
Category : Free Educational Games

Let's Explore the Airport
Publisher : Atari : http://www.atari.com
Take a Trip to a Real Working Airport with Let's Explore the Airport with Buzzy the Knowledge Bug! The Airport captures all the fun, energy and excitement of a real working airport. Kids can check out the ticket counter in the main terminal. Work the controls in the cockpit of the Concord, and see how the ground crew prepares the planes. They can even sneak behind the scenes and find out where the baggage really goes. And that's just the beginning of this incredible tour.
Price : Free To Try / Shareware
Category : Free Educational Games

Julia's Time Adventures - Back to the Roaring 20s
Publisher : Compedia : http://www.trygames.com
In this detective game set in the Twenties you play Julia a girl who has been sucked into the past. While enjoying the fun of the Roaring Twenties a man takes your picture. With this evidence of your time travel you can't return to the future! This game provides a fun and educational look into life in the twenties a perfect game for kids age 10-16.
Price : Free To Try / Shareware
Category : Free Educational Games

Europe
Publisher : Torpedo Software : http://www.torpedosoftware.com
Europe is an educational tool that helps you learn about the geography of Europe. In addition to learning about the layout of the continent, you can obtain information about nation capitals and exports. The drills are designed to keep you interested in what you're learning, making it ideal for the classroom. <p>Europe is part of a larger program, Around the World, which is available for free after you register Europe.
Price : Free To Try / Shareware
Category : Free Educational Games

Daddy's Triangle Game
Publisher : TotTotWare : http://www.torpedosoftware.com
Publisher Description : Daddy's Triangle Game is designed for children 6 months to 3 years old. It provides the protection of a basic keyboard pounder application along with four fun and educational games for your child: Shapes, Numbers, Letters, and Drawing.
Price : Free To Try / Shareware
Category : Free Educational Games

Hangman The Wild West II
Publisher : e-FunSoft : http://www.e-funsoft.com/
Publisher Description : Hangman The Wild West II is a new twist of the popular Hangman game. This game has some cool features not available in standard hangman games such as fighting bandits and fun items like little mouse, lucky horseshoe and dynamite, which will help you solve the game. The time is set in the old western age. You can see through the window the executioner building the scaffold for you if you fail to guess the hidden word and you run out of bullets. This scaffold scene is in real-time (day or night). There are 4 fun modes available: Billy's Adventure, Dead or Alive, General Mode and Topic Mode. Each mode has its own uniqueness. <p>Occasionally, while you're playing, a bandit will come to attack you for your money and name. There are 3 types of bandits with different specialties. They are Jim, Cato and Jack. You can use special items to help you solve the game. Little mouse helps you reveal part of the word by dropping one bottle. Lucky horseshoe brings luck in Billy's adventure so that he can make multiple shots without missing any bullets. And the last special item is dynamite, it helps you win easily by destroying all the bottles at once. In General and Topic modes, you can play with general words or use pre-loaded word topics - Educational and Entertainment. But there are also Additional Topics that you can download. A Knowledge Bar at the bottom of the game will give you information about the words. You can also create your own topics and upload them for other players. This game has original western music and playable in 6 different languages: English, Dutch, French, German, Italian and Spanish. High scores records for each game mode are available.
Price : Free To Try / Shareware
Category : Free Educational Games

Butterfly Hunt
Publisher : Pilot Group : http://www.pilotgroup.net
Exciting game for children of all ages to teach them the alphabet, math and train their associative thinking. The object of the game is hunting for butterflies and arranging them in a collection bar. The game is very absorbing and can be found useful to not just educational institutions but also to parents concerned about planning their childrens education. The game offers 4 different levels; has a comfortable keyboard control and record board.
Price : Free To Try / Shareware
Category : Free Educational Games

Brain Cell
Publisher : Jacobson Systems : http://www.jacobsys.com
Publisher Description : Brain Cell is a logic puzzle game. Players are presented with clues and must use deductive reasoning to place objects in a grid. Infinite puzzles may be generated at varying levels of difficulty. A unique twist to this game, for the younger player, is that he or she may enter his own names, ages, etc, which will then be used to generate the puzzles. In addition, new to Brain Cell 3.2, puzzles of various sizes and subject-matter may be downloaded from our web-site. You can even create your own Brain Cell logic puzzles which may be uploaded to share with other Brain Cell players. A powerful logic checker is now also included. Puzzles can be created with real facts, enabling Brain Cell to be used as a teaching tool. There are two ways to play Brain Cell. In basic mode, you drag the answers to their correct positions in the answer grid. In logic grid mode, you indicate true and false situations in a logic grid.
Price : Free To Try / Shareware
Category : Free Educational Games

Ant Run Pro
Publisher : Soleau Software : http://www.soleau.com/
In Ant Run Pro, you have to keep ahead of the moving ant by rotating the different-shaped squares until they connect and create a passageway. Try to keep one step ahead of the ant so that it never reaches a dead end. Ant Run Pro is filled with special bonus grids and other obstacles so you can gain extra points in your quest to move on to the next level. Ant Run Pro has some great features and educational facts about, what else? Ants!
Price : Free To Try / Shareware
Category : Free Educational Games

CrossCraze
Publisher : ORT Software : http://www.ortsoftware.com
CrossCraze is a fun new word game for one to four players. Compete with friends or against the computer by placing letters on a board to form interlocking words. The application's special features include stunning graphics; 50 board layouts; four levels of Artificial Intelligence; multiplayer support; and a massive 730,000 word vocabulary covering 10 languages.
Price : Free To Try / Shareware
Category : Free Educational Games

Runes, the Ancient Oracle
Publisher : Jon Squicciarini : http://jpsworld.com/
Saved Rune Spreads also record the Day, Date, and Time that the Rune Spread was cast. Print out your Rune Spreads in a professional 'report quality' format which includes any information you wish to add to the Rune Spread such as 'The Question Asked of the Runes' or any other details you wish to include. Copy your Rune Spreads to the Clipboard, in order to 'Paste' them into your favorite word processor if you wish to format them to your own preferences and print them out. Runes, the Ancient Oracle also features a 'Rune Spread Editor' so you can create and edit your own customized Rune Spreads. User Preference settings let you configure the program just the way you like it.
Price : Free To Try / Shareware
Category : Free Educational Games

ABC Spelling Games and Math Games
Publisher : QM Software : http://www.qmsoftware.com.au
Spelling game, math game and quiz that lets you put your own spelling and math lists into the game. Lovable interactive characters teach spelling, math, geography, history, science, and more. Characters address kids by name. Enter homework into the game.
Price : Free To Try / Shareware
Category : Free Educational Games

The Corporate Machine
Publisher : Stardock : http://www.stardock.com
The Corporate Machine is a business strategy game in which players start their own company and try to take over the world. They do this by creating, researching, manufacturing, and marketing products in a chosen industry. At the same time, they must out-perform their competitors, controlled by either the computer or by human players via the Internet.
Price : Free To Try / Shareware
Category : Free Educational Games

Chess Opening Trainer
Publisher : Chess Technologies : http://www.chesstechno.com
Learn and remember chess opening theory better and faster. In addition, you can use this software as an aid in building your opening repertoire. Unlike other chess training software, Chess Opening Trainer does not randomly select training moves and positions. It smartly selects and serves the training move and position, which you had difficulty in solving. Chess Opening Trainer builds on the time-tested educational technique of learning by doing. You train against the computer by playing the exact opening lines you want to learn. Some of the most important features: play the positions against Crafty, import PGN game from clipboard, import games from PGN files, smart training move selection by the computer, view training statistics for current position, and enter notes for individual positions.
Price : Free To Try / Shareware
Category : Free Educational Games

Real Lives
Publisher : Educational Simulations : http://www.EducationalSimulations.com/
Real Lives is an interactive life sim that enables you to live one of billions of lives in any country. Through statistically accurate events, Real Lives brings to life different cultures, political systems, economic opportunities, personal decisions, health issues, family issues, schooling, jobs, religions, geography, wars, and periods of peace.
Price : Free To Try / Shareware
Category : Free Educational Games

EduProfix
Publisher : aSc Applied Software Consultants : http://www.eduprofix.com
Learn spelling, irregular verbs, chemical element symbols, famous persons, capital cities, country flags, etc. EduProfix is highly addictive educational game for kids and adults. EduProfix is designed to provide great fun while learning new facts. Now you and your child and can test memory in this education program and become knowledge gurus. EduProfix features also multiplayer so you can compete against your friend or kid.
Price : Free To Try / Shareware
Category : Free Educational Games