Extras

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

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

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

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

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

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.

An online quantum game. Created by Rohan.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Evolving creatures walk better and better. Created by Rafael Matsunaga

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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