Extras

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

An online quantum game. Created by Rohan.

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 Currently only available in French, and also quite a bit out of date.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

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.

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.

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.

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

A gravity simulator for the web. Created by apexearth.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Evolving creatures walk better and better. Created by Rafael Matsunaga

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

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

Gravity simulation by the National Science & Tech Medals Foundation.

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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