Brain Challenge Demo

An old Internet rumor states that people are only using 10% of their brain power, which means that they are more capable than they think, if only they tried to unleash the rest of their potential. Naturally, science tells us that our brains function at near full capacity at all times, because there are many other things we must deal with besides equations and IQ tests. Hence, the brain controls emotions, your vital organs, and a variety of other things that makes us human.

Brain Challenge is a collection of mini-games that aim to improve your mental capacity, by challenging you to deal with a variety of tricky puzzles and tests. As such, the application targets your memory, logical thinking and mathematical prowess, as well as a few other subjects related to intelligence. Although they may seem demanding at first, the goal is to practice until you can handle them with ease.

To start with, you can either practice the desired subject and try to get better at calculating fast, or you can take a complete exam and see how you fare across all disciplines. These exams are saved every time you take them, which enables the application to create charts and statistics detailing your progress. Stress tests are included as well, which are more or less the same as the regular mini-games, except you are put under pressure by a variety of factors.

Although they might seem demanding at first, you can quickly get used to the tests and learn how to complete them in a flash. When that happens, it might be time to increase the difficulty level and take it from the top, otherwise you’ll stop seeing any progress. Thankfully, the game includes a couple of difficulty levels, which means that there’s always a challenge waiting for you.

As far as the user interface and the general gameplay mechanics are concerned, you only need the mouse to deal with most of the games. You can speed things up a bit with the keyboard in certain cases, but you are always prone to mistakes, regardless of what you use. The interface is quite friendly and intuitive, although some of the mini-games can be a bit fuzzy on the rules sometimes.

In the end, Brain Challenge makes no grand promises about turning you into a genius, which is good. However, you can improve your thinking abilities and get better at certain things, because the mini-games are very well designed and more than challenging most of the time.