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A variation of chess that includes some quantum rules. Created by Selim Akl and Ryan Kartavicius.

Fun toy that shows what it would look like to have massive space objects floating over your town. Created by Daniel Wysocki and HanGyeol Suh.

Simulates the flow of a fluid around a barrier. Created by Dan Schroeder.

Various small astronomy simulations built by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Astronomy Department.

Simple simulation where you can control a wave. Built by Nerd Island Studio.

Sim city style game about climate change. Currently only available in French, and also quite a bit out of date. But I love it. Created by Cap Sciences.

A gravitational simulator that lets you fling planets and see what happens. Created by MinuteLabs.

A complicated puzzle game where you’re building large molecules. Created by Zachtronics.

Simulation using SPH of a ball in water. Created by Hector Arellano.

Tic Tac Toe with quantum mechanical rules, for both web and mobile. Created by Evert.

An interactive periodic table by PBS media, which includes a little mystery game to match elements to their descriptions.

Flash interactive that shows a visualization of the curvature of spacetime. Created by Adam Trepczynski.

A platformer game that includes some relativistic effects. By the SyllabusGames YouTube channel, in association with this video: https://youtu.be/bHGTDTIE23c

Particle physics puzzle game, based on the rules of the Standard Model. Version 1 is a bit hard to access now. Created by TestTubeGames.

Game about quantum logic gates, where you use gates to direct falling balls. Build by rsoiffer.

Game exploring quantum mechanics where you’re a little robot traveling along a wavefunction. Created by folks at Georgia Tech.

A tool for exploring and animating electromagnetic waves. Created by András Szilágyi.

Interesting interactive web simulations, many of which are about fluids and flow. Created by a variety of developers.

Game for iPhone (Android version not working) where you basically play a match-3, but with quarks forming hadrons. Created by Michigan State University.

An approachable look at Fourier Transforms. Or, what sound waves, cool circular drawings, and jpegs have in commmon. Created by Jez Swanson.

An online quantum game. Created by Rohan.

Various simple, short simulations of Special Relativity. Created by Alex Reinhart.

Website that has tons of videos, simulations, and mathematical explanations of how to visualize relativity. Created by Ute Kraus and Corvin Zahn.

Learn how RNA fits together by playing this game. Created by Nova Labs.

Super silly game about building circuit components, but instead of electrons moving, there are little 2d physics balls. Created by NoNotCar.

Very complex evolution simulator where you can observe and interact with whole 3D ecosystems.

A little rolling marble game where you’re a nucleus slowly fusing and radioactively decaying as you march through the periodic table. Fair warning, in Portuguese, but not too many words. Created by Priscila Caimi.

Part game, part quiz about building logic gates. Created by Keremoner.

An absolute classic – guide an electric charge to the goal using only other electric charges. Created by PhET.

If you’re looking to simulate the state of a qubit, and how quantum logic gates will affect that state, look no further! Created by saich08.

Fold proteins as best as you can. A classic ‘citizen science’ game where by playing you can help investigate the science of how proteins get their shapes.

Collection of physics simulations, with many interactive graphs, created by H. K. Wilfred Lee.

An old (2001) virtual life sim where the creatures have digital dna and traits are passed down accordingly. Surprisingly complex. Created by Creature Labs.

Physical objects simulator that lets you draw and add objects to a scene, with lots of options for creativity. Created by Algoryx Simulation.

A game about evolving creatures, all the way to space if I’m not mistaken. Created by Maxis.

Evolving cars on a procedural racetrack. Created by Rafael Matsunaga.

Trippy game which takes place in a strange geometric world unlike our own. Two actually, one with de Sitter spacetime, and another with anti-de Sitter spacetime. Created by Zeno Rogue.

A periodic table where you can drag various elements around, and see which ones interact with which. Created by the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.

Gravity simulation by the National Science & Tech Medals Foundation.

Simulating evolution with little avocado-blobs running to get food. Built by MinuteLabs.

Various small simulations about chemistry and physics, created by Nerd Island Studios.

A game that involves optics, aiming lasers and such, loosely based on physics. Created by PlayZilla.tk.

Flash simulation of an orbit that lets you control the parameters directly, and gives graphs and data showcasing how Kepler’s Laws relate to your setup. Built by the Nebraska Astronomy Applet Program.

Very simple online oscilloscope that you can fiddle the knobs and buttons on. Created by PhysicsZone.

Explore the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram and how stars of various sizes evolve. Built by Jon Yardley, Stuart Lowe, Edward Gomez, Haley Gomez, and Chris North.

As the title says, a pretty basic, though visually interesting, simulation of an electric circuit. Helpful for understanding electron flow. Created by Electricity Explained.

Confusing game about building a quantum circuit to play pong. Good luck! By kirais.

Simulates the path of light around a black hole, and you can drag your view around. Created by Antonell.

A mobile explanation/game about qubits and quantum gates. Created by Dimosthenis Michailidis.

Evolving creatures walk better and better. Created by Rafael Matsunaga

Classic web game about playing golf in space, having to take the gravity of various objects into account. Created by Funky Pear.

Quick simulations that shows the relativistic effects of delayed light on the images you might see. Created by Michael Burns-Kaurin.