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A digital simulator of Spintronics, a physical science toy that lets you build electrical circuits modeled not with wires and electricity, by physical analogs of spinning gears. Built by Upper Story.

Evolving creatures walk better and better. Created by Rafael Matsunaga

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

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

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

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

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

List of science games and interactives, pulled together by the SyllabusGames YouTube channel, in association with this video.

Gravity simulation by the National Science & Tech Medals Foundation.

A full multimedia quark adventure, with videos, stories, and games. Created by a team led by Alice Bean.

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

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

Many, many pages explaining the history of microscopes and how they work. Occasionally has some interactive simulations mixed in. Created by Michael W. Davidson.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Simple and pretty fluid simulation by Johann Troendle.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

An online quantum game. Created by Rohan.

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

Wide variety of simulations and virtual labs, covering biology, chemistry, physics and more. Curated by LabXchange.

Lots – hundreds at least – of small physics applets, around a wide range of topics, separated out into two semesters of college physics. Motion, thermo, EM, waves, and optics all covered. Created by Andrew Duffy.

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

A long interactive blog post about how a wing works, simulating the movement of air and pressure. The post gets into lots of related physics along the way.

Chemistry puzzle game about lining up molecules correctly by placing certain tiles around a factory. Built by NoNotCar.

A gravity simulator for the web. Created by apexearth.

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

Given a certain layout of positive and negative electrodes, this simulator will calculate and display the resulting electric potentials and fields. Built by Nathaniel Klemm.

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

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

If you’re looking for a game where you design physical computer chips, this PC game is for you. Pretty complex. Created by Elorth.

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

A very neat downloadable java game about quantum mechanics. Created by Crispin Cooper.

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.

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

A classic flash game about cell biology, created by Phoenix00017, larsiusprime, and BGroupProduction.