Free games about words, scripts, translation and ancient numbers to play in your browser today, and simulation and strategy games for PC on Steam, all built on the same research as our library.
Daily word games
Put a word’s earlier forms in order, decide whether a writer meant a word the old way or today’s, and find families of words across languages. Every sentence comes from a real text.
Play Word PassportMore in History of the English Language
Also: Then or Now?, Family Reunion
Learn to read a script
Learn to read Hindi, Arabic, Malayalam and Russian from scratch: real signs, menus, maps and words, a few letters at a time, with an alphabet chart always to hand.
Start with Letter LadderMore in Living Scripts
Also: Read the Sign, Menu Order, Map Reader
Translation games
Read the original beside its English: translate a real sentence a day in Latin, Greek and more, match phrases, and catch the false friends.
Khipu counting games
Andean record keepers tied numbers in knots on cords. Learn to read them, check a chief’s accounts, mend a worn khipu and read a real one from Peru.
Start with Knot CountMore in Ancient Numbers
Also: The Keeper’s Accounts, Mend the Khipu, The Huando Khipu
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Coming soon to Steam
A relaxed 3D tycoon game about building space hotels one module at a time. Check-in is in orbit.
Space tycoon and management simWindows (Steam)
The history behind it:Checking In
In development
Play either side of first contact in a colony sim of the Americas in 1500, where a full store can still starve you.
Colony sim and strategyWindows (Steam)2027
The history behind it:Early Americas
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