Recess Rules

Each scene presents a schoolyard situation with a few ways to respond. Your choices raise or lower three skills, communication, sharing and impulse control, and warm or cool your relationships with each classmate. Clear the recess for a star rating.

• Read each scene and pick how you'd respond
• Choices build your communication, sharing and impulse-control meters
• Friendship warmth with each peer rises or falls with your decisions
• Daily is a shared scenario set; Practice generates a fresh recess

• Desktop: click the choice you want for each scene
• Phone & tablet: tap your chosen response

• Kind, calm choices usually warm relationships even when they're harder in the moment
• Watch the feedback line, it explains why a choice helped or hurt
• Balancing all three skills, not maxing one, earns the most stars

Recess Rules is a branching social-skills game where every choice echoes through your friendships.

• Skills: social skills, friendship, consequences of choices
• Best for: roughly grades 2–7 (ages 7–13)
• For parents & teachers: social choices and their consequences.

Schoolyard situations where choices move communication, sharing and impulse control is social skills instruction as a branching scenario.

Tracking three skills separately is the original structure.

They are usually measured separately for good reason. A child strong in communication can be weak in impulse control, and lumping them into "behaviour" hides which one a situation is actually testing.

Recess Rules is a branching social-skills game where every choice echoes through your friendships. It's an original, free browser game built for PlayPendium.

A free, original browser game on PlayPendium. No download, no install.