Games beyond entertainment- Ideas?

[Farad]

By "games beyond entertainment," I simply mean games that are meant to be played not only for entertainment, but also for other reasons that you see as more important than entertainment (very open-ended, so you can be creative).

Can you think of any concepts for such a game?

[Ad Bot]

[Planr]

reader rabbit 3rd grade learning adventure

[Kumquat]

Gmod can be used as a tool spread the word of Christ.

[Drydess]

blockland

[Planr]

Gmod can be used as a tool spread the word of Christ.

>venturiantale

[McJob]

Counter-Strike: Global Operations.

Whenever I can't cum to women, I'll get a quick-scope on the opposite side of Dust_2 and I'll be cumming for days.

[SteveJenkins]

space station 13 would actually make a great workplace simulator

if you took out anything that made it fun

[espio100]

Future VR research ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[McJob]

As a serious response, games like Stanley Parable are designed to be interpreted and ripped apart for study. They have a message and it's about trying to interpret the message through the gameplay. Bioshock does this very well.

[Rigel]

D&D can be used for study and discussion on many points of literature

[sir dooble]

I would like more history games with a focus on researched/sourced history.

[Rednakin]

There's a Finnish network of game development studios I heard of through a website for a gamedev school that does exactly this: http://www.seriousgamingcluster.fi

Games used for education, training pilots, surgeons, or military personnel and gamification of general activities falls out of the realm of entertainment into the realm of games designed primarily to educate and train people.

[Path]

Town of Salem helps me lie and detect lies from other people. Also Phoenix Wright helped me win any argument I come across