Teach Your Monster: A Year of Impact in 2025

2025 has been an incredible year for Teach Your Monster, with millions of children benefitting from our fun, educational games that inspire confidence and a love of learning. None of this happens without you! Here’s how we’ve made a difference together this year…

6 million kids played over a whopping 50 million times this year!

In 2025, Adventurous Eating was played over 4 million times, Number Skills over 8.2 million, Reading for Fun 8.9 million, and you probably guessed it, topping our game play charts with a MONSTER 28.9 million plays… Teach Your Monster to Read!

Since Teach Your Monster games began, we have had 65 million kids playing our games, totting up a massive 592 million plays. It’s pretty hard to imagine numbers this big, but this many kids holding hands would approximately stretch around the earth two and a half times!

Building Confidence with Numbers

Number Skills had over 1 million new players this year, and their favourite mini game, Bubbles, was played 2,570,663 times! Bubbles has been our most popular Stage 3 game, played over 4 million times since its introduction in August 2024.

Number Skills also got the ‘mom’s’ seal of approval this year, winning a Gold Mom’s Choice Award! Definitely one for us to stick up on the fridge.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “It’s great! We have been using it and my 7-year-old is learning her number skills so well. IT'S AMAZING!!!!” O.D, United States

Inspiring a Love of Reading

5.8 million books were read this year in Reading for Fun, and 39 million books have been read since the game was launched! The most popular book was our Teach Your Monster to Read Joke book, read 389,000 times - so we hope you’ve had a few laughs from those silly jokes told by your little ones this year.

Both our literacy games together topped 542 million all-time plays and this year, we were reminded of our age with these Teach Your Monster to Read app reviews:

“I finished it when I was about 6 years old. Now, here's an update, I'm already 11 years old, and this game is still here, and I'll never delete it. The game is sooooo cool. Even though I'm 11 and I know everything about this game, it still remains a legend…” Z.Y.

“Hey devs. This game was such an important part of my childhood and is so nostalgic and I remember have so much fun playing this amazing game. Thank you guys” W.I.S.

5-year-olds using Teach Your Monster to Read back when it was released would now be 18 years old - that’s 13 years of impact! Phew. We are chuffed with the continued success of our literacy games and have BIG plans for them in 2026, so keep your eyes out for updates in the new year.

Encouraging Adventurous Eating

Adventurous Eating helps children explore a variety of fruits and vegetables, and it has been played over 10 million times since its release in 2022.

Catchy in-game song ‘Bub loves food’ has proved quite the earworm for our users, with the singalong music video watched 55,000 times on YouTube - sorry, parents!

Speaking volumes more than our stats, this lovely email dropped in our inbox this year:

“As a parent of an autistic child, Teach Your Monster: Adventurous Eating helped my kid explore new foods without stress or pressure. It made something that was once a source of anxiety into something fun and empowering. And Teach Your Monster to Read played a huge role in building their literacy confidence. This is such a huge deal to my (also dyslexic) reader. Your products truly support neurodivergent learners in ways that most educational tools don't, and that impact is deeply personal for us.” E.H.M

Thanks for writing in. Hearing about the impact our games have on your lives really makes our day.

Supporting New Beginnings

We love to create a total learning experience, providing loads of free printable resources that bring the monster fun off-screen and into your homes and classrooms. This year, we created a set of progress charts to support the phonics journey in Teach Your Monster to Read. These have been downloaded nearly 30,000 times, proving that you love a ‘fridgeworthy’ chart just as much as we do!

Thank you for your support

None of this would be possible without YOU, our wonderful community! Each week, our small but mighty team puts all our efforts into creating safe places for children to learn and grow through our games and resources. We hope to continue this for many years to come. By playing, sharing, and purchasing the apps, you’re directly supporting our mission to help millions of children around the world achieve their potential through play.