Ps3 brain training games

Sign Up for free or Log In if you already have an account to be able to post messages, change how messages are displayed, and view media in posts. Boards PlayStation 4 What are good brain training games? Feels like my brain is getting stale getting old , need to energize it again with some games Could be any game, doesnt have to be puzzle related, just a game that gets the brain thinking hard like a workout been doing sudoku online lately.

Mobile games is great for these things, not a ps4. I have a few of these on my phone, was hoping there would be nice ps4 games that were fun yet brain intensive. Games by "POGI" are pretty good. They cover crosswords, hidden words, sudoku, etc. I adore hidden object games, but the challenges can vary immensely. Sounds good, thanks! KI11AK 1 year ago 6. Demon Training on 3DS. I'm not a mean person.

I just like saying mean things. RIP Storm. Feels like my brain is getting stale getting old , need to energize it again with some games Could be any game, doesnt have to be puzzle related, just a game that gets the brain thinking hard like a workout been doing sudoku online lately Switch, 3DS, and Mobile have lots of Picross puzzles.

Challenging yet fun. I love them to death. In , research found that brain training games can be directly associated with an improvement in reasoning, verbal learning, as well as completing daily tasks in a study of over 7, participants with Alzheimers. Another benefit of brain training games is that they focus on improving your attention span — a skill that can certainly transfer across to your personal and professional life.

Brain training games also focus on helping you to improve your reaction times with timed challenges and quick-fire rounds aimed to test your speed, attention, and ability to react quickly and accurately. Of course, this might not always carry across to physical situations where a quick reaction is essential, but it can be helpful when it comes to making decisions more efficiently and with more confidence. The best thing about Brain Challenge aside from the cute, fresh-faced doctors is its ability to track your daily progress, a la Brain Age, in a variety of categories: logic, math, memory, visual and focus.

If you're the type who goes for self-improvement, you'll enjoy loading up the game every day, taking the battery of tests and tracking your long-term improvement or decline, in my case. If you're unhappy with your performance in a certain category, you can pop into the Training Room to get some extra practice. Doing so will also help you unlock additional minigames in each category. You'll be graded on your performance in each game type, so no slacking unless you want to see big, fat Ds next to each.

There's a Stress Test, too, which adds distractions and multitasking to the standard puzzles. After each Daily Test, your friendly framerate-challenged coach will show you a visual representation of your brain and the percentage of it that you ostensibly used to complete the test.

It's a humbling image designed to entice you to keep coming back to the game for improvement. Whether Brain Challenge actually improves anything about your brain is an open question. By design, there are a limited number of game types, and once you understand how they work and what it takes to score well, it's just a matter of practice. So, basically, it's just like any other game that rewards pattern recognition and trial and error. Does it stimulate your brain and sharpen your thinking?

But does it do so more than your typical puzzle game? Probably not. Brain Challenge's main selling point is its format, which gives you a nice variety of categories, individual games, play modes and unlockable content.

Spend enough time with Brain Challenge and you'll open up different mini-games and a special Creative Mode for your efforts. There's an adapted Kid Test and an unlockable Physical Test too although we didn't unlock it. The tests are fairly well-designed but the opening tutorials for each are a bit unclear, and it took me a few tries to understand what I was up against in some cases.

Maybe it's because we use only grape-sized portions of our brains, but my fellow IGN editors and I made more than a few false starts because of less-than-lucid pre-test tutorials.