Extras

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Evolving creatures walk better and better. Created by Rafael Matsunaga

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

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

A gravity simulator for the web. Created by apexearth.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.