As a middle school English teacher, I found myself getting stuck in the read-answer questions-review answers cycle. If I was bored, what were my poor students feeling? A great alternative to this predictable lesson sequence comes in the form of game-based learning, during which student learning occurs through the playing of games. In other words, it is the game that is the learning activity and “by playing the game, students reach the instructional objectives” (Blass & Tolnai, 2019)*.