Links not on the main list. Smaller or more esoteric projects, or things built in old tech like flash. Worth digging through.
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Genetic Walkers
Evolving creatures walk better and better. Created by Rafael Matsunaga
Evolution Simulator
Simulating evolution with little avocado-blobs running to get food. Built by MinuteLabs.
Relative Hell
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.
Immune Defense
Fight off diseases using microbiology. Created by Molecular Jig Games.
Chaotic Planets
A gravitational simulator that lets you fling planets and see what happens. Created by MinuteLabs.
Creatures Docking Station
An old (2001) virtual life sim where the creatures have digital dna and traits are passed down accordingly. Surprisingly complex. Created by Creature Labs.
Build-a-Fish
Explore adaptations in this museum-style interactive. Build fish and see how well they survive. Created by Shedd Aquarium.
Physics Simulations
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.
Airfoil
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.
Quantum Puzzle Generator
A mobile explanation/game about qubits and quantum gates. Created by Dimosthenis Michailidis.
CellCraft
A classic flash game about cell biology, created by Phoenix00017, larsiusprime, and BGroupProduction.
ChemWorks
Chemistry puzzle game about lining up molecules correctly by placing certain tiles around a factory. Built by NoNotCar.
Gravity Lab
Gravity simulation by the National Science & Tech Medals Foundation.
Superposition Arcade
Game about quantum logic gates, where you use gates to direct falling balls. Build by rsoiffer.
Neutron Star in my City
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.
Building View Filter
Quick simulations that shows the relativistic effects of delayed light on the images you might see. Created by Michael Burns-Kaurin.
Optika
A game that involves optics, aiming lasers and such, loosely based on physics. Created by PlayZilla.tk.
SWC Physics Simulations
Collection of physics simulations, with many interactive graphs, created by H. K. Wilfred Lee.
Optical Microscopy Primer
Many, many pages explaining the history of microscopes and how they work. Occasionally has some interactive simulations mixed in. Created by Michael W. Davidson.
Algodoo
Physical objects simulator that lets you draw and add objects to a scene, with lots of options for creativity. Created by Algoryx Simulation.
Psi & Delta
Game exploring quantum mechanics where you’re a little robot traveling along a wavefunction. Created by folks at Georgia Tech.
Virtual Oscilloscope
Very simple online oscilloscope that you can fiddle the knobs and buttons on. Created by PhysicsZone.
Donkey Kong Country with Relativity
A platformer game that includes some relativistic effects. By the SyllabusGames YouTube channel, in association with this video: https://youtu.be/bHGTDTIE23c
Bloch Sphere Simulator
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.
Space Time Travel
Website that has tons of videos, simulations, and mathematical explanations of how to visualize relativity. Created by Ute Kraus and Corvin Zahn.
Logic Gates
Part game, part quiz about building logic gates. Created by Keremoner.
LabXchange Library
Wide variety of simulations and virtual labs, covering biology, chemistry, physics and more. Curated by LabXchange.
Genetic Cars
Evolving cars on a procedural racetrack. Created by Rafael Matsunaga.
Particle Sandbox
A gravity simulator for the web. Created by apexearth.
Quantum Marble Maze
A very neat downloadable java game about quantum mechanics. Created by Crispin Cooper.
Gravitation Physical Visualization
Flash interactive that shows a visualization of the curvature of spacetime. Created by Adam Trepczynski.
Visualizing a Black Hole
Simulates the path of light around a black hole, and you can drag your view around. Created by Antonell.
Planetary Orbit Simulator
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.
QUARKED! Adventures in the Subatomic Realm!
A full multimedia quark adventure, with videos, stories, and games. Created by a team led by Alice Bean.
CPU Balls
Super silly game about building circuit components, but instead of electrons moving, there are little 2d physics balls. Created by NoNotCar.
QPong
Confusing game about building a quantum circuit to play pong. Good luck! By kirais.
Isotope Runner
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.
Gravitee
Classic web game about playing golf in space, having to take the gravity of various objects into account. Created by Funky Pear.
Spore
A game about evolving creatures, all the way to space if I’m not mistaken. Created by Maxis.
Peppered Moth Game
Simple game about natural selection, with moths of different colors. Created by Craig Tevis.
Agent Higgs 1
Particle physics puzzle game, based on the rules of the Standard Model. Version 1 is a bit hard to access now. Created by TestTubeGames.
Syllabus Games
List of science games and interactives, pulled together by the SyllabusGames YouTube channel, in association with this video.
Quantum Chess
A variation of chess that includes some quantum rules. Created by Selim Akl and Ryan Kartavicius.
Foldit
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.
The Sapling
Very complex evolution simulator where you can observe and interact with whole 3D ecosystems.
Sim Bucket
Various small simulations about chemistry and physics, created by Nerd Island Studios.
Relativity Simulator
Various simple, short simulations of Special Relativity. Created by Alex Reinhart.
Spintronics
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.
Eterna
Learn how RNA fits together by playing this game. Created by Nova Labs.
Star in a Box
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.