If you’re looking to do more with your Echo than play music or control your smart home, check out some of the best Amazon Alexa games out there.
Amazon Alexa is mostly about controlling speakers and your smart home, but being a modern digital assistant, it can handle a lot more than that. In fact there’s a surprisingly large number of voice-based games for Alexa, so we’ve compiled a list of the best Alexa games to try if you’ve got a compatible speaker or smart display. Related: The best skills and apps for Alexa Based on the classic Bard’s Tale role-playing series, Warlocks of Largefearn is pretty ambitious for an Alexa game. While it’s single-player only, it’s a true RPG in its own right, including classes, levels, attributes, and a battle system. When you’re outside of combat, you can use four action verbs — “look,” “talk,” “use,” and “pick up” — to interact with your environment. Players with an Echo Show get to see both their opponents and the town of Largefearn, but the game still works on an audio-only device. It’s worth noting, though, that you’ll have to pay $4 to unlock all content, including the Bard and Practitioner classes. Riddle and quiz games are pretty common with Alexa, probably because they’re easy to make and play on a voice-based platform. Kids Quiz is targeted at children aged 5 to 12, who have to answer fact questions and other brainteasers spanning a range of topics. New questions arrive every day, so the game should keep kids engaged for a while. If your kid wants to get a little more competitive with quiz games, Nickelodeon’s No Way That’s True supports up to four players, testing them on facts about animals, people, and places. Another attraction is the voices of characters like SpongeBob Squarepants and Lincoln Loud.
