Make your way through a playground of tricky moments, how you join in, share, and handle your impulses shapes every friendship you make.
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How to play
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
Controls
Desktop: click the choice you want for each scene
Phone & tablet: tap your chosen response
Tips & strategy
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
What you'll learn
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.
About Recess Rules
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.