Code the Robot. Save the Cat

★★★★★ This is a wonderful game. There are so many "coding" games out there now, but this one actually teaches some fundamentals of programming for kids. Our 4.5 and 6-year-olds picked it up and had no problem. It's a bit too complicated for our 3-year-old. It's also actually really fun for adults too. I don't play games, but I do actually enjoy helping the kids here when they get stuck.

★★★★★ I'm professionally a software engineer, and this is an absolutely awesome programming game, I've tried a few different programming games with my 3-year-old, and this is the first one that clicked for him! One thing they get right is keeping things very simple, not trying to have directions be relative to the robot, starting with only the most basic commands, and letting kids keep trying until they get it right, instead of kicking them out when they get it wrong. They cover a lot of basic programming concepts, basic procedural programming, loops, conditionals, and do a great job of introducing new concepts simply and building up, it's never quite like "real" programming, but I think it's a great way to introduce kids to a lot of the concepts needed to understand code later. Very cute animation style, keeps my kid wanting to play and overall just a great app, definitely recommending this to anyone who wants their kids to get an early start on programming logic.

★★☆☆☆ While I previously recommended this game to almost everyone who wanted their kids to get early programming experience, unfortunately Learny Land has moved to a subscription model and is not honoring previous one-time purchases of their apps, including the standalone apps like this one.

★★☆☆☆ Doesn't work well with touchscreen on the phone