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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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

An online quantum game. Created by Rohan.

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

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

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

Simple and pretty fluid simulation by Johann Troendle.

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

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

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

A gravity simulator for the web. Created by apexearth.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Gravity simulation by the National Science & Tech Medals Foundation.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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