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Educational games that help people while letting them enjoy an environment of suspense and fun

Educational games that help people while letting them enjoy an environment of suspense and fun

Vote: (244 votes)

Program license: Free

Developer: mystman12

Version: 1.4.3

Works under: Windows

Also available for Android

Vote:

Program license

(244 votes)

Free

Developer

Version

mystman12

1.4.3

Works under:

Also available for

Windows

Android

Pros

  • The concept of the game is hilarious and strange.
  • It's surprisingly suspenseful, despite its goofy aesthetics.
  • The horror aspect of this game - one that is surprising at moments, given that it looks like you are running away from a three-year-old's drawing - is more powerful than you would anticipate.
  • Roguelike features, including procedurally generated levels and randomly occurring obstacles, make this game highly replayable.
  • The game crams quite a bit of content into a $10 package.

Cons

  • The game unquestionably requires a certain type of person to enjoy it. If your sense of humor isn't as warped as is necessary, you'll play this game for about three seconds before wanting to throw it out the window.
  • The game really does look like it is from the 1990s, but that requires a catch: You have to be old enough to get the joke.
  • The game is still listed by its developer as being in Early Access mode, meaning that a variety of features have yet to be implemented.

Baldis Basics In Education and Learning is a trippy, creepy, surreal horror game in which you sprint around a school, trying to collect notebooks while avoiding Baldi, the titular bad guy. It masquerades as an educational game but is more like a weird amalgamation of horror and humor.

The concept of this game is simple: You are trapped in a bizarre school that is straight out of a nightmare. Your job is to collect all seven notebooks and escape this horror show of a building. At the same time, you must avoid Baldi, or the game is over. Furthermore, the building is replete with a variety of other strange characters who will slow you down, distract you, and make it easier for Baldi to capture you.

The game's Artificial Intelligence works pretty well. You have to make strategic decisions about how to avoid Baldi, who seems to be everywhere. There are times you have to run. There are other times you have to hide. Whatever you do, you have to keep silent and avoid Baldi and his friends as much as possible.

The developer's website proudly brags that the game is influenced by educational games of the 1990s, and it doesn't take more than a few minutes of play to see those influences strong appearance. Baldi looks like a nightmare straight out of 1994. The mini-games look like something you would have played in 4th grade.

The random nature of this game makes it highly replayable. At any moment, a variety of obstacles or environmental challenges can pop up, dramatically altering your playing experience. Rooms can flood or fill with fog, making it impossible for you to escape, and you have to keep this in mind as you run around the trippy school. The game also describes itself as a rogue-like, as levels are procedurally generated. This means that what worked for you in one playthrough may not work in the next.

In addition to the rogue-like features, the game offers a variety of ways to play. There is the main game and endless mode. The more you play, the more challenges you unlock, enabling the challenge mode, which offers a variety of specific scenarios that are twisted off of the main game. You can also play the "Field Trip" mode, which allows you to just practice.

The developer's website notes that the game is still in Early Access and that the community will be actively engaged in the further revamping and refining of the game. Of course, this comes with positives and negatives. On one hand, players can look forward to a variety of additional features being implemented. These include secret levels, additional horror elements, and in-game achievements. On the other hand, this obviously means those features aren't implemented yet, so players are purchasing an incomplete product.

The game was made by Basically Games and is available directly at their website for $10.

Pros

  • The concept of the game is hilarious and strange.
  • It's surprisingly suspenseful, despite its goofy aesthetics.
  • The horror aspect of this game - one that is surprising at moments, given that it looks like you are running away from a three-year-old's drawing - is more powerful than you would anticipate.
  • Roguelike features, including procedurally generated levels and randomly occurring obstacles, make this game highly replayable.
  • The game crams quite a bit of content into a $10 package.

Cons

  • The game unquestionably requires a certain type of person to enjoy it. If your sense of humor isn't as warped as is necessary, you'll play this game for about three seconds before wanting to throw it out the window.
  • The game really does look like it is from the 1990s, but that requires a catch: You have to be old enough to get the joke.
  • The game is still listed by its developer as being in Early Access mode, meaning that a variety of features have yet to be implemented.