Extras

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

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

Simple and pretty fluid simulation by Johann Troendle.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

A gravity simulator for the web. Created by apexearth.

Explore the spacetime around a black hole in your rocket ship. Created by TestTubeGames.

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

Evolving creatures walk better and better. Created by Rafael Matsunaga

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

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.

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

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

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

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

An online quantum game. Created by Rohan.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Gravity simulation by the National Science & Tech Medals Foundation.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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