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  1. #1 Tint The Saver
    97% match5 user reviews60% of 5 reviews2025
    Dev: 2223
    Windows

    A survival game where players capture and protect endangered species, facing hostile environments while maintaining rare wildlife. Cutting down trees and trash lowers the environment index, while cleaning up raises it. If the index hits zero, players’ health rapidly declines.

    Why similar: Education 53.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 29.3%, Adventure 15.1%, Singleplayer 2%

  2. #2 First Steps in Learning about Pregnancy
    96% matchPositive95% of 22 reviews2025
    Dev: エムテラス
    Windows

    Play as a pregnant woman experiencing daily life from early pregnancy to childbirth prep. Learn about local medical and support systems through interactive choices. Features 1-hour playtime and save/load. Great for those interested in healthcare, education, or social welfare

    Why similar: Education 40%, Choose Your Own Adventure 28.8%, Choices Matter 14.6%, Adventure 14.6%, Singleplayer 2%

  3. #3 Learn Japanese To Survive! Hiragana Battle
    96% matchVery Positive91% of 2,072 reviews2016
    Dev: Sleepy DuckPub: RIVER CROW STUDIO
    Windows
    Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 80%

    The ideal introductory course to the Japanese language! Learn how to read and write Japanese characters (Hiragana) at a steady pace. A full-blown RPG specifically designed to keep you engaged. By playing along, you’re going to be introduced to the Japanese language like never before!

    Why similar: Education 74.1%, RPG 15.7%, Adventure 6.5%, Indie 2.6%, Singleplayer 1.1%

  4. #4 Math Rescue
    95% matchVery Positive82% of 78 reviews2014
    Dev: Redwood GamesPub: Apogee Entertainment
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 12 minMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 22%

    A bone-chilling crisis has struck the world! Reports are pouring in from all corners of the globe: Missing numbers! Drivers on streets are in dangerous peril because the speed limit signs have gone blank! On Wall Street, stockbrokers are throwing up their hands in despair. The Dow Jones isn't down, and it isn't up - it's gone!

    Why similar: Education 78.1%, Adventure 21.9%

  5. #5 Beyond Tokyo
    94% match4 user reviews50% of 4 reviews2018
    Dev: The Soap CollectivePub: All Nippon Airways
    Windows

    Beyond Tokyo is a VR adventure around Shibuya in Tokyo, Japan. Get a taste of the unique culture of Japan by freely exploring a stylized Shibuya and experience different places - both popular and off the beaten path - via 360 videos, photos, narration, and storytelling.

    Why similar: Education 94.7%, Adventure 5.3%

  6. #6 Find the Energy
    94% match7 user reviews88% of 8 reviews2023
    Dev: Thought Generation Society
    Windows

    Find the Energy is a free educational game for all ages that teaches about renewable energy via exploration and quests.

    Why similar: Education 63.4%, Choices Matter 22.2%, Adventure 12%, Singleplayer 2.4%

  7. #7 Professor of Magical Studies
    93% matchPositive91% of 22 reviews2022
    Dev: Choice of Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Professor of Magical Studies is an interactive magical school novel by Stephen Granade, where your choices control the story. It’s entirely text-based, without graphics or sound effects, and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.

    Why similar: Education 40.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26%, Choices Matter 15.9%, RPG 13.1%, Adventure 3.9%

  8. #8 School Fab Lab VR
    73% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2018
    Dev: School LabPub: School Fab Lab
    Windows

    School Fab Lab Virtual Reality (SFL VR) makes it possible for anyone to experience a digital fabrication laboratory from anywhere, using virtual reality!

    Why similar: Education 100%

  9. #9 Self Reliance 自我性赖
    69% matchVery Positive87% of 699 reviews2019
    Dev: Eroducate
    Windows · Mac

    Self-Reliance is a live-action interactive adventure game. As the player follows the steps of the protagonist, live-action provides a vicarious thrill. The players are also able to learn accurate sexual knowledge, establishing correct attitudes and values.

    Why similar: Education 87.8%, Adventure 12.2%

  10. #10 The Light in the Darkness
    68% matchMostly Positive76% of 58 reviews2024
    Dev: Voices of the ForgottenPub: Arcade Distillery
    Windows

    The Light in the Darkness tells the story of a working-class family of Polish Jews in France during the Holocaust. It is the first videogame to portray the Holocaust, releasing free for educational purposes.

    Why similar: Education 52.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 35.4%, Adventure 8.6%, Indie 1.6%, Singleplayer 1.6%

  11. #11 Learn Japanese To Survive! Kanji Combat
    69% matchVery Positive83% of 377 reviews2018
    Dev: Sleepy DuckPub: RIVER CROW STUDIO
    Windows
    Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 94%

    Learn Japanese kanji in this interactive role-playing game! No experience needed – start reading and writing in Japanese!

    Why similar: Education 64%, RPG 20.6%, Adventure 11.4%, Indie 4.1%

  12. #12 Plague of Athens VR
    67% match4 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2024
    Dev: History Adventures
    Windows

    Plague of Athens tells the story of Nikos of Athens, a physician during history’s first recorded pandemic, 429 BCE, who struggles to treat the multitude who fall ill during this world-upending ordeal.

    Why similar: Education 88.6%, Adventure 9.5%, Singleplayer 2%

  13. #13 Find the Whales
    68% matchPositive92% of 13 reviews2023
    Dev: Thought Generation Society
    Windows

    Find the Whales is a free-to-play educational game for all ages about ocean conservation. Find marine animals and do conservation quests to help protect them & their habitats!

    Why similar: Education 85.5%, Adventure 11%, Singleplayer 3.5%

  14. #14 Choice of Rebels: Uprising
    67% matchVery Positive89% of 144 reviews2017
    Dev: Choice of Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Lead the revolt against a bloodthirsty empire! You grew up under the iron fist of the Hegemony. Now is your chance to end their blood-fueled magic, as you forge a ragtag outlaw band into a rebel army.

    Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 38.7%, RPG 22.4%, Choices Matter 21.7%, Adventure 12.4%, Indie 4.8%

  15. #15 Choice of the Cat
    67% matchPositive93% of 28 reviews2017
    Dev: Choice of Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Knock things over. Take a nap. Enslave humanity. It's the biggest text-based cat simulator ever, over 600,000 words! They will give you belly rubs, or else.

    Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 34%, Choices Matter 28%, RPG 21.1%, Adventure 12.2%, Indie 4.6%

  16. #16 Saga of the North Wind
    67% matchMostly Positive75% of 16 reviews2016
    Dev: Choice of Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    The gods chose you to lead your tribe on a deadly pilgrimage to the North! When future generations recite your saga, will they sing of glory or downfall?

    Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.6%, Choices Matter 26.1%, RPG 25.8%, Adventure 14.2%, Indie 5.3%

  17. #17 Heart of the House
    66% matchVery Positive89% of 76 reviews2017
    Dev: Choice of Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    When your uncle Kent mysteriously disappears, you'll embark on a journey find out what really happened. What will you sacrifice when trapped in a haunted manor? Will you destroy this evil or claim its power? And can love bloom in a haunted house?

    Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 33.6%, Choices Matter 26%, RPG 22.9%, Adventure 12.7%, Indie 4.7%

  18. #18 Curse of the Assassin
    66% matchPositive87% of 30 reviews2015
    Dev: Tin Man Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%

    Fight, outwit and explore in Orlandes City as you uncover a conspiracy in this Gamebook Adventure where YOU control the story!

    Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 47.9%, RPG 30.3%, Adventure 16.7%, Indie 5.1%

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