Arcade Games for Kids
Arcade favorites and classic arcade games are here for countless hours of fun. Single and multi-player arcade games will keep you and your kids coming back to play and challenge each other to score the most points. All apps are approved by our parent testers to ensure that they are age-appropriate for your kids.
Legends of Learning
Legends of Learning is an engaging set of science games and online activities designed for students in grades 3-8. The system is designed for classroom use, but could be adapted to family use. It features lots of content that is aligned with the NGSS (Next Generation Science Standards).
MathLand: Mental Arithmetic
MathLand: Mental Arithmetic is a fun, arcade-style math practice game that offers a heavy dose of play sprinkled with math problems. The app will appeal to most elementary-aged students, and will motivate many to practice critical addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and number sequencing skills.
My Molecularium
My Molecularium is an entertaining and educational app designed to give high school students a healthy dose of gaming fun while they learn and practice chemistry concepts related to molecular structure, chemical formulas, and skeletal formulas. Optional competitive features and social media sharing for achievements make the app a must-see for chemistry students who are also gamers.
Zap Zap Math
Zap Zap Math offers a wealth of free math practice at grade levels from K to 6, with even more possibilities available through an annual subscription. Since it’s based on Common Core standards, there’s no doubt that kids will be on the right track to build important skills.
Traffic Racer – Wild Run Car Racing
Traffic Racer – Wild Run Car Racing is a fun app that allows users to take the wheel of virtual racing car navigating freeway traffic. The user has control of the make/model of the car, its color, and a host of other options. There are also various options to customize game play. The main drawback is the extreme number of advertisements that run after nearly every click in the app.
Space Survival Astrolympics
Overview If you have kids who enjoy space travel and shooting games, they’ll enjoy Space Survival Astrolympics. Like early arcade games, kids must guide their ship through space and shoot obstacles that come their way. However, Space Survival Astrolympics amps up the traditional arcade game by allowing kids to earn gems and upgrade their space …
The Grossery Game
Head on down to the Yucky Mart and start collecting digital Grossery Gang characters in Grossery Game, a delightfully disgusting app for kids.
The Sweet Little Monster
Tilt your device to collect the colored monsters in The Sweet Little Monster, a simple game for kids.
Croc’s World Construction Kit
Croc’s World Construction Kit allows users not only to play an almost infinite number and variety of levels in this game, but it also offers the tools for ambitious players to create and share their own creative level designs.
Jumping Miner
Jumping Miner is a cute arcade-style app that is simple to learn and takes quite a bit of skill to master. Developers have included over 1000 levels, so there is a huge amount of content here for dedicated players.
Showdown at the Oasis
Defend your side of the screen by protecting it from scorpions, tumbleweeds, and other enemies in Showdown at the Oasis.
Dot vs. Squares
Collect all the dots while avoiding the squares and share your high scores with friends in Dot vs. Square, a simple, but fun arcade-style game.
998 Escape Games – Love of Wizards
Find clues and solve puzzles in 998 Escape Games – Love of Wizards, a traditional escape game with a mystical theme.
Tic Tac Rings
Tic Tac Rings is an extraordinarily entertaining, deceptively simple game that will keep most users busy for hours as they try to find patterns and develop strategies to improve their scores.
My4Faces Dreamland
My4Faces Dreamland offers a few unique and entertaining twists on the popular match-three style game for your smart phone or tablet. It’s colorful, challenging, and fun to play.
Light Medley
Light Medley is a simple and repetitive game that challenges players’ memory, attention, and sequencing skills. Each level presents one more light in the series that must be duplicated, creating an on-going challenge to improve the score.
Retro Shooting
Experience the feel of a classic arcade game as you try to take down missiles in Retro Shooting.
Pigs & Bricks
Pigs & Bricks is an old-fashioned arcade game in the style of “Frogger” that challenges players to hop their pig across logs moving in opposite directions in a river. Obstacles and enemies are added with each successive level, making the game harder and harder as you progress.
Skiplit
Skiplit is a highly-entertaining and possibly addictive “bounce the ball into the goal” app. The extra twists and challenges, such as moving barriers and multiple balls in play, will keep even experienced players intrigued.
Space Smasher: Kill Invaders
Save the space heroes by destroying asteroids and UFOs in Space Smasher, a fun, arcade-style game for all ages.
Discolor Rebounder
Discolor Rebounder is a free game app that offers an appealing activity in the style of some of the older, simpler video games such as “Pong” and “Brick.” Developers have combined some of the most challenging aspects of those games into a new and interesting activity that is worth a look.
Wordrops-Addictive Word Puzzle Game
Wordrop-Addictive Word Puzzle Game is a fast-paced, high action word game that is perfect for building fluency with spelling and writing, as well as stretching vocabulary.
Turbofinger Arcade Racing Review
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Running Noah
Solve multiplication problems to build bridges and save animals with Running Noah.
Patrick’s Dinosaur: Aliens and Diggers
Patrick’s Dinosaur: Aliens and Diggers is an imaginative and creative app that features dinosaurs, space aliens, things to throw, and even construction equipment. Most young children will be in heaven!
Small Lime
Small Lime is a fun app that invites players to enter a world with a story told by animé characters where progress is achieved through playing a “match-3” type game and solving puzzles. There are a number of enjoyable aspects to the game including caring for an electronic pet, purchasing food, clothing and equipment with points earned by playing, and more.
My World of Atoms
Learn about the elements on the Periodic Table while drilling your way through a pixelated world in My World of Atoms.
Math Jungle : Grade 1
Run through the jungle in Math Jungle, collecting bananas and answering first grade math problems along the way. How many bananas can you collect?
Math Galaxy Word Problems Fun
Math Galaxy Word Problems Fun offers a wide array of word problems in topics and levels suitable for grades 1-8, and if players enjoy arcade-style maze games, will be a motivational way to practice applying math skills. Game play is quite complex, however, and players may need adult assistance to learn the game well enough to enjoy it.
Patchmania KIDS
Patchmania Kids-A Puzzle About Bunny Revenge offers a large and entertaining set of maze-like puzzles that will exercise logic, reasoning, visual and spatial skills as players guide the animals to eat up all of Farmer Lester’s vegetables.
Pock & Palam
Pock & Palam makes a gentle and simplified introduction to many types of standard arcade and game system games, and will help young children feel like they are “part of the action” as they play a game that just may entertain older children as well.
Box Drop Math Addition Game: A Fun Way for Kids to Practice and Learn Basic Facts
Box Drop Math Addition Game provides addition facts in order of increasing difficulty and encourages players to build speed at basic addition combinations. A simple but fun arcade game challenges them to stack falling boxes to earn extra points.
Crazy Times Tables-Multiplication Photo Fun
Crazy Times Tables is one of the most perfect multiplication fact practice apps available. It offers repetition and choice of facts made enjoyable by creative and visually interesting special effects.
Action Graphing
Action Graphing is an innovative, interesting and effective tool to teach basic concepts about velocity graphs to students with a creative and unique hands-on, experiential approach.
Little Big Car Factory Spelling Game
Little Big Car Factory: Spelling Game is an outstanding example of a fun and flexible app that adults can customize with the exact words students need to study or learn to spell.
NetKids Digital Entertainment Network
NetKids Digital Entertainment Network lets kids experience unlimited content from many of their favorite characters – for a small monthly fee.