Extras

Evolving creatures walk better and better. Created by Rafael Matsunaga

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

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.

Fight off diseases using microbiology. Created by Molecular Jig Games.

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

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

Explore adaptations in this museum-style interactive. Build fish and see how well they survive. Created by Shedd Aquarium.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Gravity simulation by the National Science & Tech Medals Foundation.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

An online quantum game. Created by Rohan.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

A gravity simulator for the web. Created by apexearth.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Simple game about natural selection, with moths of different colors. Created by Craig Tevis.

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

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

Simple and pretty fluid simulation by Johann Troendle.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.