E.g., like Assassins Creed Origins’ museum mode where you could learn about Egypt. Less so things like Hearts of Iron or Crusader Kings.
There’s plenty of educational games aimed at elementary school students, but I’m curious if there are any aimed at older audiences, like the game equivalent of a nonfiction book.
Potentially Civilization games, there’s a lot of good quotes and interesting things in them. I recently impressed someone for knowing all the wonders of the ancient world (thanks, Civ V)
I’ve also seen a few great games about learning other languages. There’s one for Japanese that’s been on my wishlist forever.
Civ taught me that Gandhi was one of the world’s most bloodthirsty warmongers