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[Megaman]

Anyone mention the Total War series yet? Has some minor military lerningz in it.

[magistrate101]

If anything, Dwarf Fortress has taught me the most about minerals and their uses, like how light some metals are, hell, even helped me line up the way coal develops... (It also taught me how satisfying it is to drop puppies into a volcano......)

[Roboboy33]

Team Fortress 2 teachs you how to kill people. Oh, and that fire's dangerous...

[Grakelin]

Anyone mention the Total War series yet? Has some minor military lerningz in it.

Too bad it doesn't have any minor patience and reading lerningz. :*(

[PsyberianHusky]

Minecraft taught me a little-bit about logic gates.

[Tilla]

Nobody ever learned how to kill from a standard FPS.

ARMA 2 however has taught me a fair bit about tactics and military procedure, particularly playing with a tactical unit that does training courses and whatnot.

[Jopax]

Age of Mythology has pretty much taught me all i know about the mythologies of ancient cultures, i remember playing a single game for hours on end, spending most of it wiki walking my way trough the ingame encyclopedia
WoT has taught me almost everything about WW2 tanks and their uses, not directly mind you but it has sent me to the web in search of more information countless times.

Also interesting video that explains a bit about this phenomenon

[Simmura McCrea]

Also interesting video that explains a bit about this phenomenon

Excellent video. Thankee! *huggles*

EDIT: Suppose I might as well get ontopic too. I've learned a fair bit from EU3, either directly or tangentially. Directly, my knowledge of geography, mostly European, has improved. Tangentially, I looked up Orthodox Christianity and the Timurids.

[Azrathud]

Minecraft for improving my computation skills when I need to plan for amount of materials and also learning about electronics lingo and logic from redstone crafts.

[Anvilfolk]

Treasure Mountain and Carmen Sandiego - played those to death as a child

[BigD145]

SimAnt might or might not qualify; It had a massive amount of information about ants available, but you'd have had to actually open it and read it. I'm not sure how much the ant colonies fighting was realistic or not, and methinks ants don't normally chase people out of their homes .

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Most of that manual is ant info. You will learn something.

Well... Empire: Total War does give you tons of quotes, technology history, troop history, building history, country history... Basically, it is a history class, but more interesting, since you start at one point, and make your own history. Not to mention the little pop-ups after turns that have some sort of historical event, like the death of some actual pirate...

Quotes don't teach you much. Tropico 4 has one from Reagan that says, "I am an environmentalist. ... I am for clean air." He wasn't for clean air at all. He and others sabotaged the Clean Air Act as soon as they found out what the original wording would have done to industry profits. Industries still would have made money, just not gobs of it.

[Scoops Novel]

Larry Laffer and Space Quest expanded my english vocabulary with many useful words.

Anything like this for other languages? Come to think of it, does anyone know some dedicated languages games?

[miauw62]

Dat necropost

[The13thRonin]

GTA 5...

Never marry a stripper.

Or hang around dudes named Trevor.

[Folly]

It's old, but Mario's Time Machine is the last game I remember playing that I did not expect to be educational but it actually was.