Extras

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

A gravity simulator for the web. Created by apexearth.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Simple and pretty fluid simulation by Johann Troendle.

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

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

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

Gravity simulation by the National Science & Tech Medals Foundation.

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

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.

An online quantum game. Created by Rohan.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Game about quantum logic gates, where you use gates to direct falling balls. Build by rsoiffer.

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

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

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

Evolving creatures walk better and better. Created by Rafael Matsunaga

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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