E.g., like Assassins Creed Origins’ museum mode where you could learn about Egypt. Less so things like Hearts of Iron or Crusader Kings.
There’s plenty of educational games aimed at elementary school students, but I’m curious if there are any aimed at older audiences, like the game equivalent of a nonfiction book.
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If you like AC’s museum mode, you might be into Kingdom Come: Deliverance 1 and 2. The first game is a bit janky at times, and some of the characters are fictional, but there will be a pop-up video-esque prompt to let you know what the real history is, what they changed, and why.
Also, I haven’t gotten around to playing it yet myself, but I’ve seen people learn a lot about space missions second hand via Kerbal Space Program.
How about Hyperbolica and 4D Golf? Both are by the same developer and show you exotic geometry by putting you in there.
Hyperbolica is set in a world in hyperbolic space, where there’s more “space” in your space. Parallel lines curve away from each other and six squares can share a corner instead of four. You learn about the properties of hyperbolic space by trying various mundane tasks like hiking and serving dishes at a restaurant.
4D Golf is mini golf in four spatial dimensions. You build up an intuition for navigating the courses. There’s even a level editor!
There are quite a few of them for learning languages. For example, Learn Japanese RPG: Hiragana Forbidden Speech is a game focused on learning to read hiragana.
Woah, that looks surprisingly in-depth for an rpgmaker game! I will have to give it a go
Nothing like those you asking for, but interesting nonetheless: Zachlikes, Factorio and Minecraft (incorporating redstone).
While it doesn’t relate to rote educational knowledge, this makes me think about doing an expose on important life skills some competitive and singleplayer games can teach you.
Realistically, for a lot of people it won’t “teach” them the right mental state, just punish a bad one; which will then lead to a bad review that slams the game for “not letting me play my way”.
Ex: Arc Raiders, learning how society benefits from trusting behavior and the fragility of structures that punish bad actors.
EveryCircuit is an electronic circuit sim rather than a game, but I thought it was fun and it helped me upgrade my ham license.
Medal of Honor if you have a VR headset…
If you want to learn about software development version control, I’ve heard good things about ohmygit.
Potentially Civilization games, there’s a lot of good quotes and interesting things in them. I recently impressed someone for knowing all the wonders of the ancient world (thanks, Civ V)
I’ve also seen a few great games about learning other languages. There’s one for Japanese that’s been on my wishlist forever.
Civ taught me that Gandhi was one of the world’s most bloodthirsty warmongers
