10 Best Educational PC Games for Kids to Play and Learn (2025)
Parents, teachers and pupils, listen up! Traditionally, gaming and classrooms may have been kept separate, but for modern learners there’s room for educational computer games both in, and out of the classroom. Research increasingly points to the benefits that gaming offers young learners. Believe it or not, video gaming may be associated with improved cognitive performance in children, according to a recent NIH study.
Today we’re focusing on children’s educational PC games, and how they can help kids learn. So read on to discover what pc learning games are, and we’ll also steer you towards ten of the most popular and fun computer games for kids.
What are educational PC games?
While PC and video games often get lumped together as a solely recreational activity, educational PC games, and regular video games are not the same kettle of fish. Educational games for the computer are specifically designed to teach skills, concepts, and knowledge in a fun, entertaining way. Educational PC games cover many subjects, including language learning, math, science, geography, and history.
How do they help kids learn?
Have you ever been in a class where you just couldn’t stay focused, maybe you even fell asleep? Well, think of educational PC games as the opposite of that! Gamification techniques such as rewards and challenges make learning fun by engaging learners and making difficult and complex topics accessible to all. Choose the right PC educational game, and students can play in the classroom, at home and on-the-go. Now let’s take a look at ten of the most popular educational games for kids, and the subjects they cover.
1. Kerbal Space Program
Take charge of the space program for the alien Kerbal race! This galaxy-crossing adventure has three gameplay modes: Unlock new tech and advance the knowledge of the Kerbals in Science Mode, or try Career Mode to run the entire operation, from strategy to construction. Aspiring designers can try Sandbox and build any spacecraft imaginable and see how well it flies when subject to realistic aerodynamic and orbital physics.
2. Minecraft Education
Game-based STEM learning has never been so fun. Minecraft Education also fosters creativity in its 600 pre-built lessons. Not limited to one subject, Minecraft Education features coursework including 21st century skills, coding, STEM, language arts, and history. Minecraft Education promises to drive meaningful learning that prepares today’s learners for the digital future, while fostering social-emotional skills. Designed for teaching, Minecraft Education is stacked with features crafted for learning environments, supporting collaboration, coding, and much more.
3. Roblox
There’s an estimated 40 million+ games hosted by Roblox. Where to start? Thankfully, Roblox Educational Experiences is home to their educational offerings. Designed by curriculum experts, subjects covered include chemistry, coding, and even robotics. Roblox Educational is a collaborative platform for learning, where students can forge their own collaborative digital citizenship skills through an immersive learning experience.
4. Scribblenauts Unlimited
For young learners aged 10+ this top-selling, accolade-winning puzzle game is back! Scribblenauts Unlimited requires players to harness the power of their imaginations to help the protagonist, Maxwell solve tricky puzzles by summoning any object that you can imagine. Users can also create their own unique objects, give them properties and share them via Steam Workshop. Explore the open universe of the unbound world and see where your imagination and ingenuity can take you.
5. Reach for the Sun
Aspiring botanists, aim high and Reach for the Sun, where you can grow plants, flowers and fruit and help them to flourish and reproduce before winter comes. This cute simulation teaches plant anatomy and function: players make strategic choices from a limited amount of resources to help their plant grow. Bees have been added to the latest addition of Reach for the Sun, so flowers with nectar can spawn bees to pollinate flowers. Check out the game and create up to four different types of plants today.
6. Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?
Learn all about geography, history and global cultures in Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? World-famous thief Carmen Sandiego has stolen an irreplaceable book, and it is your job to help Acme agents Hawkins and Jules track her down. The path to justice takes you all over the world, where you can learn fun facts about the countries you visit. To encourage studying, the more you learn the closer you get to catching the thief. Multiple puzzles and mind teasers from all around the world will keep learners from 8-12 busy learning for hours, while also having a blast.
7. Nanotale - Typing Chronicles
The importance of typing skills cannot be understated! Thankfully there’s games like Nanotale - Typing Chronicles to help learners young and old with spelling, vocab learning and typing on a keyboard. Successor to the highly acclaimed Epistory, in Nanotale you play Rosalind, a young archivist traveling in a dying world to catalog its mysteries and discover what’s really going on. As you travel through the land, type words to activate spells and eliminate enemies, and use your magic on the environment to make it resonate with your creativity.
8. Ludwig
Students with a passion for Physics should join Ludwig, the research robot on his unplanned trip to planet earth in the year 2098. Learn about human technologies on earth, from outdated fossil fuel energy production to sophisticated forms of renewable energy. Explore the four themeworlds based on combustion, water power, wind energy, solar energy, and play minigames to test your core knowledge of each themeworld.
9. Counting Kingdom
This tactical math puzzler promises to make math fun again. In Counting Kingdom, you’re a wizard’s apprentice, tasked with protecting the Kingdom from a horde of angry monsters. Strategic tower defense has never been so fun, and your math power is the only thing that can save the tower. Each invading monster has a number: add them together to cast your spells, and get points with powerful combos and potions. Counting Kingdom encourages excitement about math for all the family.
10. Sokobond
Last but not least in our 10 best educational PC games for kids to play and learn in 2025, meet Sokobond. This is not a glue, but a logical, minimalist, and elegantly designed chemistry puzzle game that teaches the beauty of chemistry to learners of all levels. Featuring over 100 levels of molecule making mind-benders, this smarter than smart puzzle game is both fun and educational.
Game on!
We hope that you’ve enjoyed today’s foray into educational computer games. Whether you’re a parent, teacher, student, or all of the above, take the time to find the educational game that suits your needs, and you’ll likely be pleasantly surprised. As you can see from the ten games introduced in this article, there’s a game for every subject, and a game for every student. Wherever you are in your learning journey, gaming can help to keep the spark of learning alive, so play a game, and see where it takes you!
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Edmund is an English copywriter based in New Taipei City, Taiwan. He is a widely published writer and translator with two decades of experience in the field of bridging linguistic and cultural gaps between Chinese and English.
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