We have several games either about history or that use history content. They are intended to increase interest in history. All are free and contain no ads.
History Cause and Effect
This is a set of 4 simple game variations that give the player an event and asks them to enter (type in) another event that either led to the given event or was a consequence of the given event. The player’s hypothesis is evaluated and scored. The games are online and can be played with 1-3 players either against each other or cooperatively.
There are 7 topics built in, but players can add any new topic from the World History Encyclopedia Timeline and history teachers can add their own topic with a list of events for students to play the games with. More details are provided here.
The Wiki Murders
This is a detection game, the player has to discover who,where,how. The locations, suspects, and potential weapons are all taken from history. Descriptions are sometimes realistic and sometimes whimsical.
This game is available in Google, Apple, and Windows app stores. More information can be found here.
Puddle Hopping
This game is available in Google and Apple app stores for Android and Apple mobile devices, and also available online (app versions are better). The app contains 4 games that use the same content. Within the app are 9 history topics, including objects from the British Museum, Literature, Movies, 14C and 15C Europe, Science.
The games include Strings, a timeline game; Clues, a trivia game; Buckets, a categorization game; and Rooms, a museum sorting game.
Google (Android): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.ideategames.IdeateGames
Apple app store (iOS): https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ideate-games/id1048474999?ls=1&mt=8
Online: https://ideategames.org/
To Samarkand
This is not a game, but an app to record your daily step count, and place your progress in the context of the Silk Roads. There is history content in the descriptions for some of the locations. This app is only available for Apple devices, in the Apple App Store.
More information is provided here.
Historizons
A daily look at something or someone of historical interest. Each calendar day, the app presents a new image (mostly drawn with AI, NOT necessarily accurate! but beautiful) with its name, and the user guesses (selects from a list) the Location, Date, and an interesting Fact about that item. Very simple to play, and each item has a link to a Wikipedia page about it. The user can also go back to each day from the beginning of the current year.
The free online app is here. (It is on our partner site, ideategames.org)