Description: Free online game that simulates poverty and the challenges faced by developing countries. Players manage a family farm while dealing with hardships such as drought, corruption, and conflict, all while trying to improve their family’s living conditions across generations. The game is known for its tough and often unfair gameplay, reflecting real-world difficulties. Its aim is to educate players about the mechanisms of poverty and to inspire empathy and social awareness through difficult, morally complex choices — unlike typical easy‑to‑win games. It can serve as a strong starting point for discussions about inequality, migration, and climate change.

Author: https://3rdworldfarmer.org/

Language: English

Link or file: https://3rdworldfarmer.org/

Description: Responsive web-based app, that is applying the principles of gamification in education, and is easily accessible through Internet via common browsers. It is created for secondary schools and it’s a highly innovative InnoSchool Learning System (ILS) that was specially designed to raise awareness about social needs and improve the abilities and entrepreneurial skills of the upper secondary schools’ students. The app combines traditional classroom-based learning methods with digital elements and online simulation, thus helping build the next generation of social entrepreneurs and innovators.

Author: InnoScool project within the Danube Transnational Programme


Language: English and other languages

Link or file: https://3rdworldfarmer.org/

Description: free online game about surviving poverty and homelessness. It was created to build empathy by challenging players to live for one month on $1,000, making difficult decisions about jobs, housing, healthcare, and food while dealing with unexpected events such as a sick child or car trouble. The game serves as a strong starting point for presenting the realities faced by disadvantaged people and for opening a discussion about whether individuals are solely responsible for their own life circumstances.

Link of file: https://playspent.org/

Language: English

Author: McKinney Agency

Description: free online game. Game refers to an interactive online simulation challenging players to make policy decisions (energy, transport, buildings, industry) to cut emissions and reach net-zero by 2050, based on real IEA data to see impacts on global temperatures and the Paris Agreement goals. It’s an educational tool designed to show the complex trade-offs in climate action.

Link of file: https://ig.ft.com/climate-game/

Language: English

Author: Financial Times

Description:  a survival game where you don’t play as a soldier, but as a group of civilians trying to survive in a besieged city, focusing on scavenging, crafting, and making difficult moral choices about food, medicine, and safety, inspired by the Siege of Sarajevo and exploring war from a civilian perspective. It is the first educational material in the history of Polish education to be proposed for the core curriculum in the form of a video game. The game is free of charge if you are a polish teacher or student.

Link of file: https://www.gov.pl/web/grywedukacji/this-war-of-mine

Language: English/Polish

Author: 11 bit studio

Description:  The browser-based game that allows school classes from the 8th grade upwards to playfully learn and deepen basic economic mechanisms while building a civilization

Link of file: https://playeconomy.de/planspiele/isle-of-economy/

Language: German

Author: Joachim Herz Stiftung

Description:  Toolkit with educational activities and cooperative games to introduce values and practices of cooperation to young people. It contains game sections and simulations to be used in workshops and training courses.

Link of file: https://www.salto-youth.net/tools/toolbox/tool/co-operaction-toolkit-for-young-co-operators.1493

Language: English

Author: SALTO Youth

Description:  This interactive resource works as a gamified “escape room” designed to teach and reinforce social economy concepts. Participants must solve a series of puzzles, quizzes and challenges that prompt them to reflect on solidarity economy values, cooperation, sustainability, and collective responsibility. By navigating through themed tasks, learners engage in collaborative problem-solving and deepen their understanding of cooperative principles while having fun.

Link of file: https://view.genially.com/5f05ac912a639a0d9064432f

Language: Spanish

Author: Red Anagos

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