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Best Homework Games for Students

Learning shouldn't stop because school's out. These homework games offer a nice mix of learning and engagement, so students extend classroom activities, refine skills, and reinforce concepts at home. With these great games spanning math, science, ELA, social studies, and more, students can form healthy study habits that help them dive deep into whatever interests them most. Whether students need to brush up on math facts and build fluency, grow their vocabulary, practice typing, stretch their thinking skills, or explore other cultures, this list has a game students can take home today.

Immediate feedback and breadth a huge plus, despite emphasis on drills

Bottom Line : Students can improve targeted skills by using practice modules in moderation.

The Robot Factory by Tinybop

Improve designs, collect favorites in robot creation sandbox

Bottom Line : A well-made and enjoyable STEM app that leverages what's great about play -- experimentation -- to spark engineering interest.

Simple Machines by Tinybop

Excellent elementary NGSS engineering practices embedded in fun games

Bottom Line : Fun gameplay lets kids explore important physics concepts in a solid standards-aligned context.

Motion Math

Playful collection of games reinforces a diversity of skills

Bottom Line : A great add-on to any classroom as a treat for students or as a way to get students to practice taught concepts to mastery.

Creative sandbox opens the door to coding in any subject area

Bottom Line : Scratch draws students of all types into coding and lays a foundation for future learning.

Awesome, adaptive math games with a killer teacher dashboard

Bottom Line : Fantastic tool for flipped or blended classrooms, formative assessment, or extra practice in any setting.

Contraption Maker

Solve problems, puzzles, brain teasers while creating wacky machines

Bottom Line : Hands-on problem-solving leads to great fun and independent learning with the right curricular wraparound to connect what kids are doing with what they need to know.

Sandbox tool enables engaged, conceptual physics inquiry

Bottom Line : A robust, free pedagogical tool that's like a digital workbench where kids build and apply conceptual science knowledge.

Dungeon-crawling adventure where code is king

Bottom Line : While not everyone loves fighting ogres, CodeCombat offers a classroom-ready platform and an authentic learning experience.

Kahoot! Algebra 2 by DragonBox

Super fun, cutting-edge approach to learning and practicing algebra

Bottom Line : Kids build a strong foundation for algebra by learning the underlying concepts for solving equations with this extremely fun and educational math tool.

Tyto Ecology

Well-developed biome sim provides cheap, endless learning

Bottom Line : This affordable ecosystem balancing game teaches life science skills while keeping students engaged.

Universe Sandbox

Superb sandbox for astrophysics experimentation

Bottom Line : An impressive -- and complex -- tool that encourages a playful, systems thinking-oriented exploration of the universe and astrophysics.

One of the best creation tools available for aspiring game developers

Bottom Line : Great choice for a full unit or class on game design; fuels students game-making dreams.

Niche - a genetics survival game

Immersive genetics sim puts evolution in students' hands

Bottom Line : This hands-on genetics game allows students to experiment, explore traits, and come away with a sophisticated understanding of the subject.

Kerbal Space Program

Design and launch a rocket into space in realistic astrophysics sim

Bottom Line : This accurate rocket sim encourages trial-and-error learning and makes for great (and often explosive) physics and engineering experiments.

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Hangart: play hangman, draw pictures, tell stories.

Games, creative activities give 360-degree view of common sight words

Bottom Line : Combination of guided games and open-ended activities give kids a great opportunity for digging deep into words.

Never Alone: Ki Edition

Illuminating native Alaskan folktale supports SEL skills

Bottom Line : A beautiful achievement developed in cooperation with indigenous folk that offers players valuable SEL skill building and a respectful window into Inupiat culture, ways of life, traditions, and stories.

Well-designed games, lessons can spice up your civics curriculum

Bottom Line : This game-based curriculum would be an excellent addition to any secondary social studies.

Sid Meier's Civilization V

Legendary strategy game is a hit with history buffs in school and out

Bottom Line : For flexible classrooms, creative teachers, and sharp students, Civilization V is the perfect platform for making rather than memorizing history.

Political Animals

Charming political campaign sim mixes data analysis and civics

Bottom Line : It's a highly entertaining and surprisingly deep way to help students see the strategy -- as well as ethical choices -- involved in elections.

SAT Vocab by MindSnacks

Variety is key in charmingly effective SAT vocab app

Bottom Line : Upgrading to the full version gets you great games and a thorough word list for SAT vocab prep.

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One-stop shop for a wealth of fantastic PBS Kids educational content

Bottom Line : Robust collection of learning resources covers an impressive array of topics.

Customizable multiplayer auto races rev up basic typing practice

Bottom Line : Nitro Type is pretty darn engaging, but teachers need to prep students' typing skills first.

Classic logic puzzler gets a beautiful new look

Bottom Line : Promote powerful thinking skills, resilience, and decision-making through purely fun gameplay that will keep students begging for more.

Spiraling sandbox of adventure and creation gets kids to dig deep

Bottom Line : An irresistible and seemingly limitless incubator for 21st century skills that, with a little guidance, can chart new courses for learning.

Epistory - Typing Chronicles

Practice typing by exploring and defending a world made of paper

Bottom Line : Great for practicing touch-typing skills, this adventure game draws players in with a slowly revealed backstory.

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Roblox: 24 Best Simulator Games

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This list brings together some of the best Simulator games in Roblox. We've looked at the number of visits, the number of favorites, and the overall rating to decide which ones you should play today.

Updated August 10, 2023 by Jacqueline Zalace: Simulator games can be an immersive experience, as you devote your time to being the very best at whatever is simulated. We've added even more options to our list, giving you plenty to choose from.

24 Pet Simulator X

Pet Simulator X is one of the most popular Roblox games of all time, and definitely one of the best Simulator games on the platform. It really started the trend of pet-collecting games, and with several years of content updates already available, there is no shortage of places to explore and pets to collect!

There are, in fact, over 1,000 pets to collect . You might need some codes to get you started in the game, which you can check out here.

23 Sword Fighters Simulator

Sword Fighters Simulator is a newer Roblox game that proves to be quite popular. The aim is to collect lots of powerful swords; swing your sword to gain power, and then unleash that power on enemies and bosses. More swings, more power, more cash. You can use that cash to open eggs for pets and to unlock great swords to use.

After you've leveled up, you can Ascend to improve your swinging power. If you want to get a boost in the game, make sure to check out our codes page.

22 Merge Simulator

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Name a better combination than Roblox and clicking games. Clicker Simulator is one of the most popular of its kind, and the game is very simple: click to earn rewards. These rewards are mainly pets, that vary from common creatures to powerful legendary beings. The better the pets, the more you can click.

As you level up and collect more pets, you can explore new areas, unlock new worlds, and enjoy other special upgrades. The game is massive and continues to receive big upgrades. To give yourself a good start in the game, make sure to check out our codes page.

20 Mining Clicker Simulator

Mining Clicker Simulator is another popular Roblox clicking game, but this time it's all about mining and collecting better pickaxes! Clicking on the screen will mine different ores, and these drop cash that you can use to buy new pets. More pets mean more clicks, and that means more cash. On and on you go, building a powerful army of pets by your side.

This game receives frequent updates and new events to explore, with lots of pets and pickaxes to upgrade. If you want to get started fast, check out our codes page for free goodies.

19 Mining Simulator 2

Mining Simulator is back! The sequel to the previous game introduces a lot of fun new features, like snazzy new graphics, new ores to mine, as well as fresh new creatures to collect.

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Once you've saved up enough you can upgrade your boosters and wings and then fly even further. It's loads of fun, even if the game is a bit simple. Check out our Glider Simulator codes here.

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Strongman Simulator is still one of the most popular simulator games in Roblox thanks to its frequent updates. Ever dreamed of becoming the strongest Strongman in the world? This is the game for you.

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Become the champion in Champion Simulator. Not only do you get to collect pets and grow your character even stronger, but you can also test your strength against other players in exciting battles.

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Introduction.

The clock for learning time has movable hands. It has three main modes, the first demonstrates how to tell the time using an analogue clock. The second mode uses the the clock hands as a way of learning angles. The third mode uses the clock as a way to help understand fractions. The clocked can be altered to change colors and its overall styling. Note in this activity different controls are shown depending on the current mode

Common Controls

The controls above the mode selector are always displayed. At the top you will see a digital clock, below are three buttons. Click the 12 button to display in normal 12 hour format with AM/PM. Click 24 button to change to the 24 hour format. Often you won't want to display the time at all, click off and the digital clock will disappear.

The clock can be used to display the current time (based on the clock of the computer you are using). Click the real time to toggle this feature. This is useful as children can observe how the clock changes throughout the day. For random time problems click the random button and the clock hands will spin to produce a random time. So this is great for lots of quick fire questions.

When the clock is not showing the actual real time, then small handles appear at the end of the hands, these and dragged into position.

Time mode controls.

First select time mode , below are a set of controls. These can be used in time problems or to view how much time has elapsed when showing the actual real time. The first one displays the hours passed. The second one the minutes that have passed. Underneath reset button sets both back to zero.

So a brief example of how to use them would be click random time. Now ask what the class what time will be in say 1hour and 25 minutes. To demonstrate this click reset , so both minutes and hours are zero. Now drag the clock hand forward until the hours is 1 and the minutes is 25. The clock now displays the answer to the initial problem.

Angles mode

Clocks have always been a useful way to teach about angles. This clock has angle measurements built in. First set the mode to angles, to get the control set.

In angles mode you will now see a protractor button click it to toggle the display of the protractor. Next is the auto toggle button, click to turn it on and you will notice the protractor lines up automatically to measure the angle. Move the clock hands and the protractor will follow. Below the protractor button is a slider use this to change the size of the protractor. When measuring angles the large clock hands can be made thin for better accuracy by clicking thin . To display the angle click Ang , and click Arc to display the angle arc. When dragging the minute hand it currently snaps to the nearest minute, turn this feature off by clicking snap . Finally the type of angle can be changed using the select control . So you can choose the angle between the hour hand and minute hand, both clockwise and anti-clockwise. Or measure the angle of the second hand from 12 o'clock. This works very well with the realtime setting as children can see a full angle of 360° turned every minute. This helps learning of key angles such as 0°, 90°, 270° etc. Also conversions such as 30 secs * 6 = 180°

Fractions mode

Select fraction on the mode control to use the clock to teach fractions. Time statements such as 'a quarter past', 'half past' and 'a quarter to' obviously are linked to fraction.

In the fraction mode a circle sector is painted from 12 o'clock to the minute hand position. Two large fractions are displayed the fraction of an hour shows the unsimplified fraction of minutes÷60. The simplified fraction is the same fraction cancelled down when possible.

The simple button toggles removal of the hour and second hands to give a simplified view. You can also click thin to toggle the thinner clock hands. The clock is divided according to the divider lines control. The default setting is auto, this divides the clock according to the fraction displayed. Essentially the clock is divided depending on the simplified fraction. However you can turn off auto mode and divide the clock according to the number selected.

Percentages can also be shown by clicking to toggle the percentage display.

Styling the Clock

Select the style mode to access controls. So for example to change the colour of the numbers, click numbers followed by a colour from the colourpicker . To remove the numbers completely click 'X' in the colour picker. You can do this with other parts of the clock too, which obviously can make reading the clock more difficult.

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Further lessons on the telling the time involve comparison of two different times the two clocks activity is excellent in this regard and can also generate time questions.

To expand on the angles try Basic angles which can be used to examine types of angles such as acute,obtuse and reflex. It can also so be used to create many different types of random angle problems.

Having seen a circular fraction in this activity, the interactive fraction wall can also be used for further teaching of fractions.

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Officecore: 10 Games That Simulate Boring Jobs

It is as if you were doing work , a new browser game by impish developer Pippin Barr, simulates puttering around inside Windows 95, clicking dialog boxes and mashing your keyboard to type out reports and emails. Depending on your real job, it’s a relaxing desktop toy or a horrifying parody of your waking life. It’s a fine example of the overlooked (and previously unnamed) gaming genre of officecore.

While many games explore exciting professions like pilot , city planner , or hitman , officecore focuses on the drudgery of a desk job. The job’s details are usually generic, its fictional results obscured to heighten the potential relatability. While the average gamer will never slaughter demons or conquer France, they will probably spend some time, maybe all their time, working at a desk, so here’s a chance to help them reinterpret a familiar environment.

As a player, you might use officecore to work out your workplace frustrations. You might find it useful for discreetly passing the time at a dead-end job. Or you might even learn something about yourself and realize you’re approaching your career all wrong. If the idea of playing a game that looks like your day job is off-putting, that already tells you something.

Officecore has three subgenres, in rising order of scope: Desktop simulation, office simulation, and corporate simulation. Desktop sims turn the computing environment into a puzzle or arcade game; office sims explore the workplace as a weaponless first-person shooter, RPG, or adventure; and corporate sims work like top-down simulations such as SimCity or Roller Coaster Tycoon. Each provides a different commentary on the modern white-collar workplace.

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It is as if you were doing work

Despite its retro design, It is as if you were doing work takes place in a post-labor world of “95% unemployment.” Randomized dialog prompts and document headings describe futuristic technologies like biofuels, tricorders, and gene doping, while the documents you “type” give self-help advice. Stock photos of office work pop up, with headers like “There is joy in work” and “No one ever drowned in sweat.”

You are constantly validated and “promoted” for your simple tasks. You feel the condescension from whatever computer handed you this “work,” and you realize you’re neither important nor useful. The only real change you can effect is choosing from four desktop wallpapers and four background MIDI tracks. It’s an interesting preview of a future (and a present) where human work is mere decoration around automated labor.

Can’t You See I’m Busy!

While many games can be discreetly played inside a real copy of Excel , the 8-year-old game suite Can’t You See I’m Busy! imitates generic office software in your browser, then inserts classic desktop games. Breakdown   is a Breakaway clone inside a Word doc; Leadership is Helicopter inside a line graph. Crash Planning is a Bejeweled knockoff disguised as a calendar; Cost Cutter is a quirky tile matcher inside an animated bar chart. The idea is that you can play these games at the office without anyone noticing; there’s even a “boss button” to hide the most egregious game elements.

The ruse is a bit thin, especially now that the fake software looks ancient. So the faux desktop interface is more stylistic than practical, and it emphasizes the relative monotony of the games themselves. To open a game, you click a button that oscillates between “start game” and “start work,” a winking gesture that feels sadder each time it loops. These games are designed to make time pass. To play them is to admit that you don’t even need to be entertained, just distracted. To play them is to admit you are wasting your life.

The whole genre of games that look like work share a muddy boundary with work that looks like games , a manifestation of crumbling work-life balance and the rise of social networking, the ultimate grey area between work and pleasure. The desktop sim genre has stagnated in the past few years, maybe because the office drone found a better time waster in social media. There are spreadsheet interfaces for hiding your Twitter and Facebook use , but this isn’t even necessary in the growing number of jobs that include social media management. When work is play and play is work, neither are very satisfying.

Office Simulation Games

Office sims take place in the office, generally turning the player into a low-level worker. While the player might advance up the ranks, gameplay never shifts into the top-down style of a god game or a SimCity. The most common format is first-person. Most tabletop officecore games also play out on this level, focusing on interaction between characters.

The Stanley Parable

The Stanley Parable is a video game about video games, but it’s also about exercising free will and challenging the limitations we unconsciously accept. Before it spirals into Matrix -like ontological absurdism, the game opens in a mundane office, depicting a mundane job.

The later game’s mechanics, and even much of its message, could have been mapped onto all kinds of settings. But the modern office ties strongly into those free-will themes. To imply authority and obedience, the game could have started in a prison or a mental institution, but the office environment projects the same qualities with a subtler horror.

It also turns The Stanley Parable into a power fantasy. When Stanley disobeys the narrator, he’s like Office Space ’s Peter Gibbons ignoring Lumbergh and dismantling his cubicle. Every office drone has wanted to reject the system like this.

Job Simulator (Office Worker level)

2016 VR game Job Simulator also takes place in a computer-automated post-job world, where museum-goers try out extinct occupations like auto mechanic, gourmet chef, store clerk, and office worker. The office level particularly highlights the disassociation between workday and product. As a chef, your job is to make a pizza; as an office worker, you have to “make job happen.” As at so many real office jobs, tasks like drinking coffee and chatting up co-workers are as important as doing any actual work.

Job Simulator is a fumblecore game where half the fun is struggling with awkward controls. The incompetent feeling of this interface is reinforced by a tutorial bot that treats office rituals like exotic local customs, and who suggests you use “an ancient human technique called ‘winging it.’” It’s a familiar feeling to young adults or anyone suffering from imposter syndrome . Comfortingly, the robots seem to be just as clueless as you are about how business works, and they congratulate you for banging on your two-button keyboard or assembling a dadaist PowerDot deck. You can’t really fail at this job.

Payroll is a first-person adventure game set in a 90s office, executed in an era-appropriate 256 colors and the goofy, gently parodic style of 90s point-and-click adventures. While one playthrough takes just 20 minutes, their’s a variety of possible endings, giving you great replay value for a one-dollar game.

There’s no heavy satire here, no frame story or fourth wall to step behind. Your goals are typical work goals. You can get fired, or you can do your job and earn retirement. For an office sim, it’s optimistic and peaceful. The bitterest this game gets is a charmingly dreary simulation of an office birthday party.

Generic Office Roleplay

The Generic Office Roleplay Facebook group is more of a sandbox than a game. Australian teen Thomas Oscar created it in 2013 as a deadpan satire of office life. Oscar shut out unfunny ideas, striving for realism, rejecting friends who all wanted to play as janitors. “If you only have five sale reps on your company, you’re not going to have twenty janitors,” he told the podcast Reply All . Like any good DM, Oscar set boundaries around the roleplaying.

But as discussed on Reply All , newer players got much sillier, replacing all the subtle jokes about fonts and social tension with goofs about iguana invasions and golden staplers. Years later, the current content is mostly middling, but this is still a fun destination for casuals.

Serious office roleplayers should consider Synergon , a loose RPG system presented satirically as a LARP, or live action roleplay. Skills include “integrity,” “yes man,” and “hereditary wealth.” Usable items include “cat calendar,” “power tie,” and “letter opener” (which “gives +10 to attack rolls for Threats of Physical Violence.”)

Supposedly, every business douche who fakes their expertise by throwing around jargon and management fads is unwittingly playing Synergon. “You know the ones,” says the About page . “They’re in every office, acting, not working. They don’t know what they’re talking about, they just know they’ve heard all the words before.”

While the site is mostly meant as satire, and no guidelines are given for true LARPing, a good dungeon master could mold Synergon into a playable tabletop or Skype game, though you’d need to flesh out your own campaign. It’s an especially attractive option for creating a customized revenge fantasy, or trying out the vicious office politics you avoid in real life.

PanoptiCorp

This Nordic-style LARP , played just twice (2003 in Norway and 2013 in Copenhagen), immerses players in a 36-hour live simulation of an amoral advertising firm with shady clients. Each player took on the role of an employee or executive, dressing the part and developing a backstory.

A report on the 2013 run , which included 30 players and 54 NPC “customers,” includes post-game analysis by players and organizers. As described in the minidoc above , players disappeared into their characters and surprised themselves with cutthroat behavior. Both playthroughs included online and social media elements, which felt exotic in 2003 and surprisingly natural ten years later. Players had to decide whether to sleep or keep working, and constant online updates raised the pressure to pull an all-nighter. One player had to take a break and cry before diving back in. Some players told Eirik Fatland, one of the game’s creators, that they regretted playing. “I am proud of PanoptiCorp ... I am also troubled,” Fatland writes in the report.

Emergent player behavior in PanoptiCorp resembles the behavior of subjects in the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment , where volunteer “guards” treated “prisoners” so badly that the study was halted early after just six days. The Stanford experiment pointed to obvious dehumanizing effects of the real prison system; PanoptiCorp seems to similarly damn the real corporate system.

Fatland is very aware of the darker parallels. “The LARP’s light-weight and comedic surface is painted on top of a fairly brutal core,” he says, “much like the industries it satirizes.”

Corporate Simulation Games

Corporate simulators are a strange sort of power fantasy, as they satirize the real-world power fantasy that is upper management. You might feel like your boss shuffles you around like a resource in a video game, a minion who makes their numbers go up. You suspect that you’re doing all the real work, while their job could be reduced to an algorithm, or a game. Running a company with a few clicks feels tantalizingly realistic. It can make you believe you deserve to be in charge.

Corporation Inc.

Browser game Corporation Inc. is the missing link between Maxis’s 1994 desktop game SimTower and NimbleBit’s 2011 mobile game Tiny Tower . Players build an office tower and fill it with staff. Unlike industry-specific corporate simulators like Software Inc. and Game Dev Tycoon , the fictional companies inside Corporation Inc. remain pleasantly generic, so you can project your own aspirations and grudges onto your little creatively hairstyled employees.

The game isn’t pushing much of an agenda, just exploiting another setting for a cute empire-building sim, like a version of AdVenture Capitalist with actual gameplay. But there’s still something to learn from just how few elements it takes to simulate an office environment.

Dilbert’s Desktop Games

This branded 1997 suite of desktop games and toys includes a business jargon generator, several work-themed minigames, and a strong 2d platformer called Techno Raiders that recalls the surprising depth of the Simpsons arcade side-scroller .

The glue holding this suite together is CEO Simulator , in which you hire, fire, and manipulate employees to grow a company. It plays like a simplified Maxis Sim game with the idling elements of a clicker game , progressing in the background while you play the rest of the suite. While it’s not a moment-for-moment simulation of office life, all of its mechanics can be mapped to real-life corporate activities, making it the suite’s most grounded office simulation.

Techno Raiders just uses the office as a setting for a platformer. You guide the titular Dilbert up the 132 floors of his office, electrocuting co-workers, avoiding crossbow-wielding secretaries, and navigating mazes through departments like sales, engineering, and the executive lounge.

The whole suite’s tone matches the moderate satire of the Dilbert comic strip, seemingly subversive but only slightly darker than Garfield. The goal of CEO Simulator, for example, is to create a successful company by keeping employees happy and productive. That’s a surprisingly optimistic view, even for Dilbert, but that’s what makes it a fantasy.

Honorable Mentions

Papers Please and The Westport Independent use paperwork interfaces to simulate the banality of evil under totalitarian regimes. Both have a lot more historical character than an office sim, but they hint at a familiar on-the-job mundanity that might prompt more sensitive players to consider the societal impact of their real jobs.

Her Story is a murder mystery that you investigate by digging through a computer, searching and tagging files. As a simulation of a murder investigation, it’s much more realistic than the typical detective game.

1995 UK board game Office Politics earned mediocre reviews on Board Game Geek, and the low-budget graphic design looks wildly uninviting, but in an office satire that might be the whole point.

The Barclays LifeSkills Pod , a dystopic-looking work simulator deployed in London last year, trains students in social skills like networking and communication. While it’s meant for real-world education, it bears a promising resemblance to an immersive arcade sim.

Text-adventure game Office Job Simulator 2014 is beyond bare-bones; it’s really just a vertebra. Click text links to “perform” a handful of office tasks, each simulated by a lone sound effect. A full run-through takes about 45 seconds.

While it’s a small and odd genre, officecore games share some definable characteristics: They imitate real life, and any divergence usually involves some satire or commentary. They focus on the elements shared by all office jobs, rather than diving into specifics.

Officecore’s aesthetics lean toward the nostalgic, evoking the lost era of cubicles, neckties, and Windows 95. The genre seems stuck in the 90s, mocking water coolers and MS Publisher, ignoring new office fixtures like the WeWork common room , the evening Slack alert , and the corporate Facebook page . Player avatars appear in suits holding briefcases, instead of the aspirational creative-class uniform of sweaters and messenger bags. These games still feel like Office Space , while the real office has evolved into Spike Jonze’s Her . There’s untapped potential to simulate the modern workplace, where everyone is a “creative,” a “curator,” or an “influencer,” where free lunch keeps everyone in the office, where work has to be more fulfilling because work-life balance is over.

The same tools that created the always-on workplace could create its simulations. Mobile gaming and social networks have normalized giving a game extensive access to your device and your personal information, enabling fourth-wall tricks that would impress Metal Gear Solid’s Psycho Mantis . Progress   and   Blackbox   interact with your phone’s accelerometer, brightness, and battery; Lifeline turns your mobile notifications into a text adventure; Farmville and Candy Crush exploit your social connections to keep you playing. These tricks would be all the more impressive in a game that simulated Slack alerts, LinkedIn networks, and annoying corporate VPNs, a game that’s as always-on as the workplace it simulates.

By catching up to reality, games can help us cope with the changing workplace. They can force us to question new norms, or just provide an outlet for the unavoidable stress of any career. Work shouldn’t just be gamified; it should be gamed.

Clicker Games

Have fun playing dozens of the best online clicker games following the path of legendary titles like Cookie Clicker and Adventure Capitalist. These clicker games include incremental and idle games too.

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What Makes a Clicker Game?

The journey in clicker games often starts with humble beginnings. You repeatedly click to produce a resource or earn currency until you have enough money to purchase the first upgrade. From there, you continue adding upgrades to your production to increase the output and revenue. One of the early clicker games that is still popular today is Doge Miner . There's also now a sequel with Doge Miner 2!

Some clicker games are more of a grind than others, and many give you an idle bonus for leaving the game and coming back.

A very grindy but satisfying clicker game is Babel Tower , a game whereby you build the famous tower of Babel brick-by-brick to reach intriguing new heights.

Another grindy clicker game back on the web after the demise of Flash is Clicker Heroes . Check it out and relive the grind!

Where Clicking Meets Idling

Once you reach a certain point in many clicker games, clicking becomes unnecessary. This is when a clicker game becomes an idle game . Eventually, you end up living the dream of having a fully automated workflow that earns you big bags of cash.

If you want to turbo-charge that dream and make it happen in a few hours rather than a lifetime, check out these idle-clicker titles:

• Idle Breakout
• Merge Pickaxe

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Whatever kind of clicker game you’re looking for, you can find them all here. However, if you want to refine your search a bit further, check out these pages:

• Incremental games

What are the most popular Clicker Games?

• Crusher Clicker
• Capybara Clicker
• Leek Factory Tycoon
• Noob Basketball Clicker
• Capybara Merge Evolution
• Craft Drill Clicker
• MergeMine Idle
• Planet Evolution: Idle Clicker
• Candy Clicker 2
• Progress Knight

What are the best Clicker Games to play on mobile phones and tablets?

• Clock Clicker
• Slime Farm Remake
• Planet Miner FRVR
• Planet Clicker

What are Clicker Games?

Clicker games involve pointing and clicking with your mouse to earn continuous in-game rewards. If you’re on mobile, it’s sometimes referred to as a tap game. Games like Cookie Clicker massively popularized clicker games, and now this addictive genre has evolved and merged with several others.

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Autopsy Simulator review

Autopsy Simulator’s first hour had us hooked as, under the pretence of giving a university lecture, the tutorial talked us through our initial autopsy. The lecture was recorded, so we sadly didn’t get to recreate that scene from Dracula: Dead and Loving It. The problem was that, two hours in, we were still waiting for the tutorial to end.

The game’s commitment to realism is astonishing, more so than the most committed crime show we’ve seen. It’s not just Autopsy Simulator’s spectacularly gruesome visuals, either: you’ll have crunch of bone and the wet slosh of fluids echoing in your ears.

In between conducting autopsies, you’ll engage with the game’s storyline, which tackles the mental decline of Jack, your protagonist. Jack lost his wife a year ago, though heading to therapy is not an option. Autopsy Simulator gets the autopsy/story balance about right. We had a feeling where it was going, probably because we watch so much horror. But it still managed to surprise us, right down to its rather abrupt ending.

And while Autopsy Simulator isn’t stacked with jump scares, just wandering around the dimly lit building, ‘guarded’ by a bored security guard, will give you the chills. Ever been asked to get something from a darkened garage or cellar? We got that same pit-of-the-stomach feeling when Jack informed us we needed to hunt for the required equipment.

What kind of equipment? Anything from an x-ray machine to a vacuum for sucking fluids out of a burnt corpse. We weren’t kidding about the realism, Autopsy Simulator is educational to say the least. You’ll learn about everything from rigor mortis and microorganisms to the physical effects of a heart attack as you rotate a realistic-looking heart in your hands.

But as much as we appreciate the voice work of Patrick Lagner, who plays Jack, we found ourselves wishing he’d just shut up and let us work. Because the reason for our initial tutorial confusion is that Autopsy Simulator never stops holding your hand. And, over the course of the game’s five autopsies, that confusion turned into frustration.

Admittedly, we don’t have the kind of medical knowledge that Jack has, but we thought we’d at least get to try our hand at cracking a case. That never happens. There’s virtually no deduction, no choosing what organ to remove and dissect, no picking a test from a bank of several, nothing. Jack narrates what to do next, and you have no choice in the matter.

We got a real sense of wonder from our first couple of autopsies. We punched the air after the centrifuge (via a button-holding mini-game) confirmed ‘our’ suspicions. But Autopsy Simulator’s hand-holding eroded that wonder, robbing it of that ‘eureka’ moment where you carve your way to the truth. There’s no satisfaction from solving an autopsy if it’s not your solution.

Autopsy Simulator throws in enough new operations to prevent the game from completely stagnating, but its lack of agency never goes away. Signing clipboards as ‘Doctor Poop’ was the only time we really got to make our mark. You wouldn’t think a game called like Autopsy Simulator could descend into tedium, but that’s what happened.

The good news is that developer Woodland Games is working on a sandbox mode which will let you conduct more autonomous autopsies. So it’s absolutely worth keeping an eye on his horror/sim hybrid. And if you’re prepared to tackle Autopsy Simulator in bite-sized chunks, you’ll get some fun out of it.

Autopsy Simulator - GameSpew's score

• Realistic graphics and sounds
• Horror elements are generally well done

We don't like..

• Little actual decision-making or detective work

Weekend editor

Chris has been gaming since the days of the Acorn Electron, which was allegedly purchased to 'help him with his homework'. You can probably guess how well that went. He’ll tackle most genres – football titles aside – though he has a taste for games that that are post-apocalyptic, horror-oriented or thought provoking in nature.

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