I've never played MS Flight Simulator, or flown a plane. However, I am learning guitar and I've discovered there's a whole range of games that are designed to teach you to play guitar. I'm currently working my way through one called Yousician which also does ukulele, bass guitar, and I think singing and piano too.<p>Rockstar is another one, but I couldn't get it to work well with a classical guitar while Yousician seems to be amazingly good at hearing the notes I play.<p>It's not a complete guitar teaching tool - it doesn't replace simply practicing songs by myself without looking at a screen, which is probably the most important type of practice for any instrument. It also doesn't teach that much music theory, although it does cover the basic better than I expected. But it does one thing amazingly well. It motivates me to practice, especially at the beginner level where I'm not making any particularly nice music, and it's teaching me a lot of the basic coordination and muscle memory while doing so. It also provides carefully curated challenge levels, which I can pick from depending on my current learning level and, just as important, how I'm feeling at that moment.<p>I think flight sims would be similar. They can't replace the genuine experience of flying a plane, of course. But we human learn well in a multi-modal manner. We can memorize a route by flying over a virtual map. We can memorize steps to land a plane, or to take off, in a game, even if they are not complete, and then apply what we've learned to learn the real thing quickly in an actual plane.<p>My experience over the last few weeks with Yousician has made me far more interested in the idea of gamified learning. Besides music, flight sims, orbital mechanics (Kerbal Space Program), and a few small code games like Flexbox Froggy, are there any other good gamified learning games?