Featured: Cross-Curricular
Multiplayer & Multi-Grade
Unit 1: Natural Texas and Its People
Before European Contact
GAMETEKS 7.2A, 7.9A
Survive the Season
A choice game: play a member of one tribe through four seasons, making choices that match real regional life.
GAME • TEACHER ACCESS • MEMBERSHIP REQUIRED
GAMETEKS 7.2A
Tribe Match Challenge
A fast quiz game: match homes, foods, and tools to the correct culture group before time runs out.
GAME • TEACHER ACCESS • MEMBERSHIP REQUIRED
GAMETEKS 7.2A
Follow the Buffalo
A strategy game guiding a Plains band following the buffalo herd and discovering how the Spanish horse changed everything.
GAME • TEACHER ACCESS • MEMBERSHIP REQUIRED
Unit 2: Age of Contact & Spanish Colonial
1519-1821
GAMETEKS 7.2B
Cabeza de Vaca's Journey
A survival adventure retracing the explorer's eight-year walk across Texas to reach Mexico alive.
GAME • TEACHER ACCESS • MEMBERSHIP REQUIRED
GAMETEKS 7.2C
Found a Mission
A building game: pick a spot and balance converting, farming, and defending your mission to keep it standing.
GAME • TEACHER ACCESS • MEMBERSHIP REQUIRED
GAMETEKS 7.2B
Claim the Land
A France-versus-Spain strategy game placing forts and missions on the map to lock in a claim to Texas.
GAME • TEACHER ACCESS • MEMBERSHIP REQUIRED
Unit 3: Mexican National & Texas Revolution
1821-1836
GAMETEKS 7.2E, 7.3A
Empresario
A management game playing Stephen F. Austin bringing families to Texas while tensions grow.
GAME • TEACHER ACCESS • MEMBERSHIP REQUIRED
GAMETEKS 7.3C
Hold the Line: The Alamo
A choice game over the 13-day siege as Travis, learning why the delay helped Houston's army get ready.
GAME • TEACHER ACCESS • MEMBERSHIP REQUIRED
GAMETEKS 7.3C
Remember the Alamo!
A knowledge-battle game answering history questions to power Houston's army toward victory at San Jacinto.
GAME • TEACHER ACCESS • MEMBERSHIP REQUIRED
Unit 4: Republic and Early Statehood
1836-1861
GAMETEKS 7.4A
President of the Republic
A decision game leading the young Republic through money, native relations, and the threat from Mexico.
GAME • TEACHER ACCESS • MEMBERSHIP REQUIRED
GAMETEKS 7.4B
Nation Builder: Debt Crisis
An economy game managing the Republic's huge debt term by term toward annexation.
GAME • TEACHER ACCESS • MEMBERSHIP REQUIRED
GAMETEKS 7.4C
Statehood Showdown
A board-style quiz racing through annexation, the U.S.-Mexican War, and the Compromise of 1850.
GAME • TEACHER ACCESS • MEMBERSHIP REQUIRED
Unit 5: Civil War and Reconstruction
1861-1876
GAMETEKS 7.5A, 7.5B
Run the Blockade
A strategy game shipping Texas cotton past the Union blockade and through Mexico for supplies.
GAME • TEACHER ACCESS • MEMBERSHIP REQUIRED
GAMETEKS 7.5B
Sabine Pass: Against the Odds
A tactics game as Dick Dowling's small group defending Fort Griffin against a much larger force.
GAME • TEACHER ACCESS • MEMBERSHIP REQUIRED
GAMETEKS 7.5C, 7.20D
Reconstruction Reporter
A role game as an 1865-1876 reporter covering Juneteenth and sorting real facts from biased claims.
GAME • TEACHER ACCESS • MEMBERSHIP REQUIRED
Unit 6: Cotton, Cattle, Railroads & The Age of Oil
1876-1920
GAMETEKS 7.6B
Trail Boss
A cattle-drive game moving your herd north past rivers and rustlers to the railhead.
GAME • TEACHER ACCESS • MEMBERSHIP REQUIRED
GAMETEKS 7.7A, 7.7B
Wildcatter
An oil-boom game drilling wells, striking oil or going bust, and feeling the boom-and-bust cycle.
GAME • TEACHER ACCESS • MEMBERSHIP REQUIRED
GAMETEKS 7.6B, 7.6D
Open Range or Barbed Wire?
A choice game running a ranch as barbed wire spreads and the open range disappears.
GAME • TEACHER ACCESS • MEMBERSHIP REQUIRED
Unit 7: 20th and 21st Century Texas
1920-Present
GAMETEKS 7.7E
Surviving the Dust Bowl
A survival choice game as a 1930s Panhandle family deciding to stay or move west.
GAME • TEACHER ACCESS • MEMBERSHIP REQUIRED
GAMETEKS 7.7E
The Home Front
A WWII strategy game running Texas training bases and oil and aviation industries for the war effort.
GAME • TEACHER ACCESS • MEMBERSHIP REQUIRED
GAMETEKS 7.12C
Mission Control: Texas in Space
A knowledge game at NASA's Johnson Space Center solving problems to launch a mission.
GAME • TEACHER ACCESS • MEMBERSHIP REQUIRED
Unit 8: Social Studies Skills
Cross-Cutting - Use All Year
GAMETEKS 7.1B, 7.20B
Timeline Detective
A drag-and-drop game putting Texas's key dates in order — 1519, 1718, 1821, 1836, 1845, 1861, 1876, 1901.
GAME • TEACHER ACCESS • MEMBERSHIP REQUIRED
GAMETEKS 7.20A, 7.20F
Source Sleuth
A mystery game using clues from primary sources to crack a Texas-history case.
GAME • TEACHER ACCESS • MEMBERSHIP REQUIRED
GAMETEKS 7.8B, 7.21A
Region Rush
A fast map game dropping cities, rivers, and landmarks into the correct Texas region before time runs out.
GAME • TEACHER ACCESS • MEMBERSHIP REQUIRED