Free Science Games for Outreach and Events
Need a hands-on activity for a science festival, museum floor, open day or classroom? These free science games are built for drop-in play: they run in any modern browser, need no installs, accounts or setup and each round takes minutes, so visitors can jump in and out at a busy booth.
Every game smuggles a real mechanism inside the fun: hunt exoplanets in Signal Hunter, snip DNA in CRISPR Snipe, balance the greenhouse effect in Infrared Traffic or rewild endangered species in Sanctuary Tycoon. Tablets, laptops and school Chromebooks all work, and each game is a self-contained web build that can run from a local copy when venue Wi-Fi lets you down.
Immune Rush
A fast-paced arcade game about the immune system.
Tardigrade Tun
Shift between active swimming and cryptobiotic tun state to withstand lethal solar UV flares, flash freezes, boiling acid and cosmic vacuum.
Signal Hunter
Pilot a space telescope across a survey field, confirm transiting exoplanets and habitable zone worlds, catch auroral radio bursts and oxygen biosignatures while dodging stellar flares and eclipsing binary false positives in this astronomy arcade game.
CRISPR Snipe
A physics-based slingshot game about CRISPR gene editing and chromatin navigation.
Microbe Midway
A frantic shooter about defending your gut microbiome.
Pheromone Highway
Guide foraging ant swarms using chemical recruitment trails and alarm repellents to solve emergent shortest paths through stigmergy.
Hydrothermal Haven
A fast-paced deep-sea marine ecology arcade game. Manage a hydrothermal vent ecosystem, channel sulfide plumes and shield tubeworms from volcanic eruptions.
Fossil Foundry
Fund dig-site expeditions through stacked strata, assemble skeletons from real bones and curate era-accurate museum exhibits while critics audit your placards.
Neuron Nursery
Raise a baby neural network: feed clean training data, swat noisy and biased samples, tune the learning-rate dial and stop the Overfit Gremlin before it memorizes everything.
Double Slit Duel
Fire electron waves through a double slit, scramble which-path detector drones, erase measurement collapses and guard entangled pairs to reveal the quantum interference pattern.
Infrared Traffic
Direct Earth's photon traffic: harvest sunlight, place CO2, water vapor, methane and CFC molecules to absorb the right infrared bands and hold the planet in the Goldilocks zone in this greenhouse effect game.
Wood Wide Web
Guide mycorrhizal fungal threads through subterranean soil, barter nutrients for glucose with trees and dispatch pest warning signals.
Peppered Pursuit
Hunt peppered moths as a hungry flycatcher across generations: soot darkens the forest, lichen restores it and every catch steers the allele frequency bar in this Kettlewell natural selection arcade game.
Sanctuary Tycoon
Rebuild a rundown reserve: fence habitat-matched enclosures, pair founders by genetic distance, dodge poachers and rewild endangered species.
Trophic Frenzy
Guide microscopic swimmers through pelagic freshwater food webs, graze cyanobacteria as a ciliate, swallow ciliates as a rotifer and evade hydras as daphnia in this science arcade game.
Mitosis Manager
A fast-paced sorting game about the cell cycle and cancer prevention.
Enzyme Frenzy
A matching game about enzyme specificity and function.
Valence Vortex
Hook drifting atoms, balance open valence electrons and synthesize H2O, CO2, CH4 and NaCl while evading destructive free radicals in this chemical bonding arcade game.
Crystal Nucleation
Launch dissolved mineral seed ions, trigger spontaneous crystal nucleation clusters and cleave unsupported mineral lattices in this deep sea arcade game.
Prism Path
Rotate optical breadboard elements, split white laser light through dispersion prisms and route spectral wavelengths into photo-detectors in this optics arcade puzzle game.
Coriolis Cyclone
A fluid dynamics and atmospheric meteorology simulation game. Harness Coriolis deflection and pressure gradients to steer rain toward crops and deflect cyclones to open sea.
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All games are free to use at events, festivals and in classrooms. Event hosts can also create a free account to add their own logo and a live leaderboard to any game. Pick a title above or browse the full catalog for more science.
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