Toy/game makers often list skills children learn while playing them. What skills would adult games develop?

King’s Cup

• Counting/mathematics
• Social skills
• Memory
• Body coordination
• Empathy
• Planning skills
• Bathroom competency

Patience

Procrastination

City builders, transport games, and factory games are basically "System Design" work already - you could probably disguise a CPU or circuit board design problem as an OpenTTD or Prison Architect or Shapez scenario, and get gamers to design boards for you.

Cooperation

Honestly? The same things.

Communication skills, spatial reasoning, visualization, critical thinking, problem solving, reaction time, hand-eye coordination.

Things they should also be teaching are empathy, compersion (as someone else said), kindness, introspection, self-awareness.

Depends on what you're talking about, and context.

Physical games? Definitely the relevant physical strengths if done at a semi-professional enough level, so muscles etc. Team games often also teach you some coordination, leading and organization skills.

For board games, planning, adaptation, even critical thinking. Social interaction skills maybe, too.

Postal 2 teaches you how to collect signatures for a petition 😁

Shogun 2 got me to read the Art of War and it totally helped me kick people's asses online 🙂

Deception

Lack of financial responsibility.

Common sense?