Studying can be fun but for many, if not most, people, mustering the motivation to read books could be as daunting as clambering to the summit of Mount Everest. 

Especially when you need to read a book on a subject that barely interests you, studying might even seem more overwhelming than you may imagine. While studying is, nevertheless, one of the fun ways to acquire valuable knowledge, you might find studying very boring if you don’t approach it the right way. 

Therefore, we’ve decided to help make studying more enjoyable by showing you the five games that can boost learning, thereby shifting your study sessions from boring to fun: 

Technically, before getting any strange ideas, we’re not talking about traditional video games or fast-paced real-money titles such as the aviator game app, which are designed purely for entertainment and pleasure. Instead, this article is all about games that help improve focus, boost memory, and make learning more effective. Let’s dive right in!

• Habitica 

Habitica is an app that can help boost your productivity level, thereby making activities like studying more enjoyable for you. It works in such a way that you’ll have to create your character –precisely an avatar –and then spell out your goals, tasks, etc. 

The more you’re able to complete the tasks or achieve the goals, the better your character grows within the Habitica app and vice versa. With respect to your study goals, for example, the app could encourage you to spread the study goals and endeavour to achieve them one after the other. 

If you especially schedule your study goals –such as reading ahead of your next assessment test, completing an academic assignment, etc. –to be completed daily, and you keep to the schedule, you’ll see how well the avatar (i.e., your character) is growing and this could make studying more enjoyable for you. 

• Kahoot

This is a quiz-oriented game where you can choose to participate alone or partner with friends. It is a learning-style game as it enables you to create quiz questions from your textbook chapters or other study materials. 

Courtesy of its quiz-oriented format, Kahoot makes it easy to transform your study text into questions carrying multiple-choice answers, and then see how many of these questions you can answer quickly and correctly. 

The experience becomes exciting as you earn points after every correct and quick answer that you provide. Kahoot is, in fact, one of the games that make studying more enjoyable because any student can use it to set quiz questions on any topic of choice, and leverage the desire to earn points (within the app) towards passive learning. 

• Forest App

Forest App could be the perfect application that stimulates you to remain focused when studying. This app works in an exciting way by encouraging you to build an in-app tree that grows only when you aren’t using your phone for social media or any other activity that may distract your attention from studying.

When about to start studying, you’ll have to open Forest App and start building the in-app tree. Leave the app open while the tree keeps growing. You’ll be able to grow more trees if you leave only Forest App open and stay off your phone rather than side-open social media apps and other distractions. 

• Brainscape

This is an ideal study tool which encourages you to review your study material (and repeat information) at appropriate intervals. As a flashcard-oriented platform, Brainscape enables you to use in-app flashcards or create your own. 

Generally, Brainscape stimulates you to spend more time on the information you’re struggling to commit to memory and spend less time on the information that seems to have stuck into your head. 

• Quizlet

Quizlet is great not only because it’s another flashcard-oriented learning-inducing app, but also because it makes it easy for you to use your own (digital) flashcards. Besides being a comprehensive study-oriented app incorporating diverse learning methods, Quizlet allows you to set up an ideal study set comprising your preferred concepts, questions, answers, etc.

Conclusion

While it’s possible for your approach to studying to be the exact reason why you dislike studying, employing the effective study tool can tremendously enliven your study sessions. 

All of the five games –Habitica, Kahoot, Forest App, Brainscape, and Quizlet –we recommended can make studying more enjoyable for you. While any of Brainscape and Quizlet would be ideal for anyone who fancies the idea of using (digital) flashcards for studying, you may further review our recommendations to figure out which would be best suited for you.