With parental engagement and support to choose age-appropriate games, mobile gaming can offer both parents and children a great way to interact and develop a number of skills.

Playing games that help children test their strategic thinking and awareness of their wider environment can help boost memory, spatial awareness and problem-solving. In some cases playing games can also improve dexterity in younger children.

The more adolescents reported playing strategic mobile games, such as role-playing games, the more they improved in problem-solving and school grades the following year, according to a long-term study published in 2013.