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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Donkey Kong Country with Relativity
Nebraska-Lincoln Astronomy Applets
Various small astronomy simulations built by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Astronomy Department.
Sim Bucket
Various small simulations about chemistry and physics, created by Nerd Island Studios.
QPong
Confusing game about building a quantum circuit to play pong. Good luck! By kirais.
Quantum TiqTaqToe
Tic Tac Toe with quantum mechanical rules, for both web and mobile. Created by Evert.
Peppered Moth Game
Simple game about natural selection, with moths of different colors. Created by Craig Tevis.
Immune Defense
Fight off diseases using microbiology. Created by Molecular Jig Games.
ChemWorks
Chemistry puzzle game about lining up molecules correctly by placing certain tiles around a factory. Built by NoNotCar.
goREACT
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.
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.
Quantum Marble Maze
A very neat downloadable java game about quantum mechanics. Created by Crispin Cooper.
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.
PBS Periodic Table
An interactive periodic table by PBS media, which includes a little mystery game to match elements to their descriptions.
Particle Sandbox
A gravity simulator for the web. Created by apexearth.
Black Hole Explorer
Explore the spacetime around a black hole in your rocket ship. Created by TestTubeGames.
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.
Electric Field Hockey
An absolute classic – guide an electric charge to the goal using only other electric charges. Created by PhET.
Genetic Walkers
Evolving creatures walk better and better. Created by Rafael Matsunaga
Psi & Delta
Game exploring quantum mechanics where you’re a little robot traveling along a wavefunction. Created by folks at Georgia Tech.
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.
Experiments with Google
Interesting interactive web simulations, many of which are about fluids and flow. Created by a variety of developers.
Logic Gates
Part game, part quiz about building logic gates. Created by Keremoner.
Algodoo
Physical objects simulator that lets you draw and add objects to a scene, with lots of options for creativity. Created by Algoryx Simulation.
The Sapling
Very complex evolution simulator where you can observe and interact with whole 3D ecosystems.
LabXchange Library
Wide variety of simulations and virtual labs, covering biology, chemistry, physics and more. Curated by LabXchange.
MOLEK-SYNTEZ
A complicated puzzle game where you’re building large molecules. Created by Zachtronics.
Evolution Simulator
Simulating evolution with little avocado-blobs running to get food. Built by MinuteLabs.
SWC Physics Simulations
Collection of physics simulations, with many interactive graphs, created by H. K. Wilfred Lee.
Quantum 3 Game
Game for iPhone (Android version not working) where you basically play a match-3, but with quarks forming hadrons. Created by Michigan State University.
Simple Circuit Simulation
As the title says, a pretty basic, though visually interesting, simulation of an electric circuit. Helpful for understanding electron flow. Created by Electricity Explained.
Quantum Puzzle Generator
A mobile explanation/game about qubits and quantum gates. Created by Dimosthenis Michailidis.
Standing Waves
Simple simulation where you can control a wave. Built by Nerd Island Studio.
Spore
A game about evolving creatures, all the way to space if I’m not mistaken. Created by Maxis.
Gravitation Physical Visualization
Flash interactive that shows a visualization of the curvature of spacetime. Created by Adam Trepczynski.
Gravity Lab
Gravity simulation by the National Science & Tech Medals Foundation.
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.
Fluid Dynamics Simulation
Simulates the flow of a fluid around a barrier. Created by Dan Schroeder.
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.
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.
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.
SPH Fluid Simulator
Simulation using SPH of a ball in water. Created by Hector Arellano.
Chaotic Planets
A gravitational simulator that lets you fling planets and see what happens. Created by MinuteLabs.
Visualizing a Black Hole
Simulates the path of light around a black hole, and you can drag your view around. Created by Antonell.
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.
Relativity Simulator
Various simple, short simulations of Special Relativity. Created by Alex Reinhart.
Electric Potentials and Fields
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.
Optika
A game that involves optics, aiming lasers and such, loosely based on physics. Created by PlayZilla.tk.
Building View Filter
Quick simulations that shows the relativistic effects of delayed light on the images you might see. Created by Michael Burns-Kaurin.
An Interactive Introduction to Fourier Transforms
An approachable look at Fourier Transforms. Or, what sound waves, cool circular drawings, and jpegs have in commmon. Created by Jez Swanson.