Math Dash (2024)

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"Math Dash" is "edutainment", it's a math game for kids, basically an endless runner punctuated by maths problems... get the math problems right or the teacher will catch you (why is this bad? Did we do something wrong? Will the teacher do something wrong? This is kinda dark...) What do you do in the game? The goal is to solve math problems to avoid a pursuing teacher. Gameplay involves quick thinking to answer math problems correctly. Features include adaptive difficulty and coin collection, although the coin collecting is really just an attempt to try make the gameplay more interesting... impossible, I think. The game is an educational runner, focusing on arithmetic and problem-solving, with a chase mechanic. As usual with these kinds of games, it's not making education better, it's just making gaming worse. On the important subject of visuals, this features fairly low quality stylised/cartoony low poly 3D graphics. It comes across as the kind of thing you see on mobile phones and Nintendo games, which will deter a lot of PC gamers, understandably. Gaming is a visual medium, and to be considered one of the best games on Steam, the graphics have to be some of the best on…