Infection

Free Infection game for kids

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80 players on one team. One giant island. Tons of zombies to put to sleep and cure. And a Grave Giant.

Infection

Where's the bus going?

Every island has one special land. Pick one, or let it surprise you.

The Grave Giant rises once your team has cured 12 zombies. Put it to sleep, then cure it to save the island! Watch for its red rings and lanes, jump its stomp, and build a metal wall to stop its charge!

Zombie look

Goofy green zombies on a sunny day. Scarier looks open as you level up.

Chests ask a question first: get it right for a bonus tranquilizer of the same colour!

Getting the game ready…

Turn your phone sideways to play!

Practises: counting, making ten, adding, taking away and more
Youngest age: 5+ (E)
On a Chromebook: Yes (its 3D is slower on older ones)
Controls: Keyboard and mouse, or touch
First step: Drop in
Time: No fixed length: stop whenever you like. On a class link or the board, the classroom bar's timer (1, 2 or 5 minutes) ends it for everyone.
Setup: No accounts, no download, no sign-in. One each on Chromebooks, or on the board with one child driving while the class calls out; the header's Share gives you the link and a QR code for the class.
Print: Print the game sheet

About Infection

Infection is a 3D team game on a big island. You and your friends and helper bots ride a bus over the island, jump, glide down, and put zombies to sleep with tranquilizer darts for ten seconds. Then you run up and cure them, three seconds by hand, and they turn back into townspeople. Cure enough of them and the Grave Giant rises: cure it too and the island is saved. Something silly closes in as you play, like a tidal wave or a hail of meatballs. It plays in the web browser, with no download and no sign-up.

In the last 30 days, players opened Infection about 60 times and played it for about 5.5 hours in all. These are Peabody's own counts, with no names in them.

What this practises, for teachers

Practices counting (K.CC.A.1), making ten (K.OA.A.4), adding within 20 (1.OA.C.6) and times tables (3.OA.C.7). Played with keyboard and mouse, or touch, runs in Chrome, no accounts; its 3D runs slower on an older Chromebook.

How to play Infection

Team rescue game in 3D · numbers and words. Cure enough zombies to wake the Grave Giant, then cure the Giant too, and the island is saved. Everyone wins together.

Drop in. Everyone rides the bus over the island. Press Space (or tap Jump) to drop out wherever you like; the glider opens by itself near the ground.
Put one to sleep. Everyone starts with a Hand Tranquilizer and eight darts. Aim and fire: a few darts and a zombie lies down for a Zzz. It only sleeps for 10 seconds, so be quick.
Cure it. Run up to a sleeping zombie and hold E (or tap and hold) for 3 seconds. If you walk off, or it wakes up, the cure starts over. A cured zombie turns back into a townsperson, waves, and wanders off.
Open chests. Walk up and press E (or tap). A chest’s colour is what is inside. In a learning mode it asks a question first: right gives a bonus of the same colour, and wrong still opens it.
Grab cures to throw. A Cure Flask thrown at a crowd cures every zombie it lands near. A Cure Mist makes a cloud that cures the ones standing in it. Pick a cure, aim, and fire to throw it.
Look after your team. A zombie bite can infect you or a friend: you lie down and call for help, and the screen says who is running over. A teammate cures you and you stand up again. Once a match, Doc June’s vial can stand you up yourself. Your team can never hurt each other.
Gather materials. Hit trees, rocks and cars with your pickaxe for wood, stone and metal.
Build. Z a wall, X a ramp, C a floor — three keys side by side (or tap 🔨). Ramps take you up to the roofs and towers, where the richest chests wait.
Stay inside the circle. The bus card says what is closing in today: a tidal wave, meteors, a hail of meatballs, and more. It closes in as a circle that shrinks on your map. Stay inside it. When it moves, a Mythic chest floats down on a balloon.
Watch the water. On a Tidal Wave island the sea comes up as well. The beaches, the rivers and the low fields go under, so the circles climb into the hills — and a boat left at the shore will carry you over a drowned field.

What Infection practises

Counting, making ten, adding, taking away, times tables, division, first sounds, rhymes, phonics, sight words, spelling and vocabulary, with questions from K to 5th grade. For ages 5 and up (rated E). Controls: keyboard and mouse, or touch. Needs a mouse? No: tap or swipe, or the keys. On a school Chromebook, it runs in Chrome; its 3D runs slower on an older one. No sign-up, no ads and nothing to buy.

To print and go with it: a Infection score sheet, Kindergarten addition within 5 worksheets, the multiplication chart and decodable readers to print.

The other players are computer players. A signed-in child can also invite a family member or a buddy they are allowed to play with, by pen name, to share the same island, up to four kids in one match. There is no typed chat in a match, and a grown-up can switch off playing together in Peabody's grown-up settings.

On a computer, use WASD to move, the mouse to look and aim, and Q, X and C to build a wall, a ramp or a floor. On a phone, the left thumb moves, the right thumb looks, and on-screen buttons fire and build. Hit trees, rocks and cars with a pickaxe to gather wood, stone and metal. There are animals and vehicles to ride, and a jetpack.

The learning is in the chests. In Mix, Numbers or Reading, a chest asks one question before it opens, and the world holds still while it is up. A right answer adds a bonus item of the chest's color. A wrong answer still opens the chest. A level-up bar and a supply drone also ask questions, for a perk or for building materials, and a wrong answer never takes anything away. Just play opens every chest with no question.

The game has guns, from a weak starter to rarer ones found in chests. There is no blood: a knocked-out player is beamed away and drops their loot, and zombies vanish in a puff of smoke. How scary the zombies look is set by the child's grade, and a child can always pick a milder look.

The questions fit the child: numbers by their math grade and words by their reading level, from counting and first sounds up to times tables, dividing, spelling and word meanings.

Questions grown-ups ask

What does Infection practice?

Each chest asks one math or reading question at the child's level: counting, adding, taking away, times tables and dividing, or first sounds, rhymes, phonics, sight words, spelling and word meanings. Just play turns the questions off.

Is Infection violent?

It is a battle game: players knock each other out, and zombies roam the island. There is no blood, knocked-out players are beamed away, zombies can be switched off, and how scary they look is capped by grade.

Who does my child play with in Infection?

Computer players, unless they invite a family member or an allowed buddy by pen name. There is no typed chat, and a grown-up can switch off playing together in Peabody's grown-up settings.

More like this: games for 10 year olds, games for 8 year olds, educational games by skill.

For grown-ups: On the menu: Mix, Numbers, Reading or 🎮 Just play. Just play asks no questions at all.

Also try: Dip & Dash, Pet Hatch, Wake the Dragon.

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