Adults

A learning and training game, 3D Reseaux teaches civil engineers and construction workers about the risks of working near underground networks.

My Stop Smoking Coach with Allen Carr is designed to help players quit smoking tobacco. This Nintendo DS game is based on the philosophies of Allen Carr and is intended to be an entertaining, challenging, and helpful way to stop smoking.

At- Risk is a training game designed to help faculty and staff identify and approach students that appear to be experiencing mental distress. Through simulated conversations within the game, players interact with virtual students dealing with suicidal thoughts, depression, anxiety, and symptoms of paranoia.

The suicide rate among U.S. soldiers has increased by 46 percent since 2003, and so the Army has produced a suicide prevention game to teach soldiers how to identify signs of depression in themselves and others, and how to seek help. Players watch a drama and are challenged to make effective decisions that will help prevent suicide. In addition to demonstrating the steps that soldiers can take when they are experiencing mental distress or see it in others, the game conveys the message that seeking professional counseling is a positive step and not a negative one.

This 1993 text-based quiz game tests players’ knowledge of alcohol-related trivia. If a player misses a question, their character must take a drink and then becomes more inebriated. The more inebriated the character, the more difficult it becomes to read the text, which is increasingly interspersed with random garbled items as more drinks are consumed. Eventually it becomes impossible to get any answers right, and so the character finally passes out.

Available for free download, Catch the Sperm 2.0 is designed to educate players about the importance of safe sex, sexually transmitted diseases, and pregnancy prevention. Using a condom gun, players shoot and catch swimming sperm and viruses before they reach their destination.

Released in 1986, this trivia and quiz game is inspired by and features the famed sex therapist Dr. Ruth. Players must answer a series of multiple choice and true or false questions regarding human sexuality. The quizzes are timed and score is partially based on how quickly the questions are answered.

This set of free, online games designed to exercise adults’ brains and minds. Players can choose from a variety of games that, with practice, may help improve memory and cognition.

Half-Life is a first-person shooter game set in an underground research facility. Players solve puzzles and tasks to find their way out of the facility. This game has been used as therapy for individuals with phobias. It can be played on the Sega Dreamcast, PC, and PlayStation2.

Heart Sense is a role-playing, web-based, free game designed to educate players about the risk of heart attacks. The game puts players in the shoes of a hero who must solve a crime while trying to find true love. Throughout the game, players run into characters experiencing heart attacks that they must help in order to receive clues and tips. This game was developed by the University of Pennsylvania.