Extras

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

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

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

If you’re looking for a game where you design physical computer chips, this PC game is for you. Pretty complex. Created by Elorth.

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

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

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

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

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

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 Currently only available in French, and also quite a bit out of date.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.

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

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

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

A gravity simulator for the web. Created by apexearth.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Simple and pretty fluid simulation by Johann Troendle.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Gravity simulation by the National Science & Tech Medals Foundation.

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

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

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

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

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.

An online quantum game. Created by Rohan.

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

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

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.