#8
Physics puzzlers have a specific kind of learning built into them that is hard to replicate in any other format: the game gives you materials, gives you a goal, and lets you fail in ways that teach you something real about balance, tension, and cause and effect. World of Goo 2 does this well. The goo balls you build with behave consistently according to actual physics principles, so a child who plays this for a few hours genuinely starts to develop intuitions about structural engineering. It is not magic, but it is real. The 2024 release makes it one of the fresher picks on this list, and the presentation is charming enough that kids do not need convincing to try it.