The science games list

Since 2015 I have been compiling a list of games with a science or environmental theme. The list now has over 273 games! Check them out below!

You may also be interested in reviewing the games at The Science Game Centre another amazing resource of science games!

*All prices are in AUD.

SCIENCE SCORES:

• 1 =Vaguely science/environmental (for example, you are a frog crossing a road),

• 2 =Entertaining science/environmental game. (May have good content but is not well explained or you have to work it out yourself),

• 3 =Educational science/environmental game (Has good information provision and is well thought through),

• 4 =Game contributes to actual scientific research (for example, you are folding proteins to research how they are folded).

Engineering & Physics (15 games)

• Antimatter Matters Cost <$100 (board/card games), Ages 11+

• Bumper Ducks FREE (web games), Ages 12-14, SCIENCE SCORE=3

• Crafty Cut  FREE (app)

• Experience Curiosity FREE (web games)

• High Frontier (board/card games), Ages 12+

• iCross Cost <$5 (app), Ages 10+

• Kerbal Space Program Cost <$100 (video games)

• Kerbal Space Program 2 Cost <$100 (video games)

• Launchball FREE, (web games), Ages 7-14

• Lumino City Cost <$20 (web games)

• Nova’s Energy Lab FREE (web games)

• Rugged Rovers (app)

• Pocket Universe (app)

• Silence! Cost <$20 (board/card games)

• States of Matter Cost <$20 (board/card games)

• The Transistor FREE (web games), SCIENCE SCORE=3

Mathematics, Computer Science & Programming (16 games)

• Agrinuatica (web games)

• Codeacademy FREE (web games)

• Code Combat FREE (web games)

• Crescent Loom (web games/video games)

• Curse Reverse FREE (web games)

• DragonBox Numbers Cost <$10 (app)

• Dragon Shapes: Lumio Geometry Challenge FREE, (app) Ages 6+

• The Foos FREE (application)

• Lightbot: Code Hour FREE, (app), Ages 5-18, Multiple Languages

• Mastermind (board/card games) Ages 8+

• Mathoria: It All Adds Up Cost <$10 (video game)

• Maths Millionaire FREE (web games)

• Monster School Bus FREE (web games)

• Nova’s Cybersecurity Lab FREE (web games), Ages 12-17, English only, SCIENCE SCORE =3

• Playful Math Cost <$50 (board/card games)

• Sum Swamp Cost <$20 (board/card games)

• Turing Machine (board/card games), Ages 14+

• Zeus vs. Monsters- Math Game for Kids Cost <$10

• Zendo (board/card games) Ages 8+

Chemistry (13 games)

• Chemikul FREE (web games), Ages 5-18

• Chem Crafter FREE (app) Ages 8+, English only

• Compounded Cost <$100 (board/card games), Ages 13+

• Compounded: Geiger Expansion (board/card games), Ages 13+

• Compounded: Chemical Chaos (board/card games), Ages 13+

• Compounded: The Peer Review Edition

• Covalence: A Molecule Building Game Cost <$30 (board/card games), Ages 8+, English only

• Elementeo FREE (app), English only

• Ion: A Compound Building Game Cost <$30 (board/card games), Ages 8+, English only

• Mr. T Teaches Chemistry FREE (video games)

• Ozone FREE (web games)

• Pangu, a short story of life (app)

• Penalty Shootout FREE (web games)

• Virtual Lab: pH and calibration FREE (web games)

Cells & Proteins (12 games)

• Cell Craft FREE

• Cell Lab: Evolution Sandbox FREE (video games)

• Cell Strike (video games), Ages 8-11

• Cell Turnover FREE (web games)

• The Control Centre of the Cell Cycle FREE (web games), SCIENCE SCORE=3

• Cytosis: A Cell Biology Board Game (board/card games). Ages 10+, Cost <$50

• Explore a cell FREE (web games)

• Foldit FREE (web games), SCIENCE SCORE=4

• Microscopya (web games)

• Peptide: A Protein Building Game Cost <$30 (board/card games) Ages 13+, English only

• Phylo FREE (web games),  SCIENCE SCORE=4

• What is a cell? FREE (web games), SCIENCE SCORE=2

Psychology & the Brain (16 games)

• AquaSnap (video games)

• Brain Balance Cost <$5 (app), Ages 5-8

• Brain Bridge Cost <$5 (app), Ages 5-8

• Brain Play FREE (app), Ages 5-8

• Brain Train Cost <$5 (app), Ages 4-6

• Every Body Has a Brain (app), Ages 4+

• Eyewire FREE (web games), Ages 12+, SCIENCE SCORE=4

• Feeling Mindful Cost <$5 (app), Ages 5-8

• Hiding Hippos Cost <$5 (app), Ages 4-7

• Neuron Galaxy FREE (app), Ages 5-8

• Neuro Hero (app)

• Pavlov’s Dog FREE (web games), SCIENCE SCORE=3

• Remember the Brain Cost <$5 (application), Ages 5-8

• Robo Brain Cost <$5 (app), Ages 5-8

• The Split Brain FREE (web games), SCIENCE SCORE=3

• Thinking Cap Cost <$5 (app), Ages 5-8

Viruses & Disease (22 games)

• Cancer Game FREE (web games)

• The Cure FREE (web games), SCIENCE SCORE =4

• Develop a Drug in this race against time! FREE (app), Ages 12+, English, French, Polish, Spanish, SCIENCE SCORE=2

• Fight the Bad Bacteria FREE (web games)

• Flu Epidemic FREE (web games)

• Herbalism (board/card games), Ages 8+

• Immuno Wars (board/card games), Ages 16+

• Julia: A Science Journey (web games)

• Pandemic Cost <$100 (board/card games), SCIENCE SCORE=1

• Pandemic: On the Brink Cost <$100 (board/card games), SCIENCE SCORE=1

• Pandemic Iberia (board/card games). Cost <$100, Ages 8+

• Pandemic 2 FREE, SCIENCE SCORE=1

• Plague Inc FREE (app), SCIENCE SCORE=1

• Pocket Pharma (board/card games), Ages 8+

• Produce a drug target FREE (web games), SCIENCE SCORE=2

• Re-Mission FREE (app)

• Remedy Quest FREE (app)

• Superbugs (web games)

• Tumour Takedown

• The Unusual Suspects FREE (app), Ages 12+, English, French, Polish, Spanish

• Virulence: An Infectious Card Game #Still in development as of 26/03/2017

 Medicine & the Human Body (16 games)

• Bioengineering FREE (web games)

• Build an Organ FREE (web games)

• The Blood Typing Game FREE (web games), English and Swedish, SCIENCE SCORE=3

• Code Fred: Survival Mode FREE (web games) Ages 7-18, English only, SCIENCE SCORE=3

• Critical Care (board/card games), Ages 10+

• Cure Nadia's Cancer FREE (app), Ages 12+, English only

• Diabetic Dog FREE (web games), SCIENCE SCORE=3

• Dice Hospital (board/card games), Ages 10+

• Electrocardiogram FREE (web games), SCIENCE SCORE=3

• Helimed SCIENCE SCORE=1

• The Immune System FREE (web games), SCIENCE SCORE=3

• Immune Defence FREE (video games)

• Monster Heart Medic FREE (app) Ages 9-11, English only

• Organ Surgery FREE (web games)

• Poo Racer

• Science Heroes: Digestive System for Kids Cost <$10 (apple devices)

• Help Shrink Belly Fat FREE (app), Ages 12+

• Troublesome Twin FREE (web games)

Genetics (15 games)

• Bios: Genesis (board/card games), Ages 12+

• Bios: Megafauna (board/card games), Ages 12+

• Bios: Origins (board/card games), Ages 12+

• Bios: Mesofauna (board/card games), Ages 12+

• Chromosome (board/card games), Ages 8+

• DNA: the Double Helix FREE (web games), SCIENCE SCORE=3

• EteRNA FREE (web game), Ages 12+, SCIENCE SCORE=4

• Gene Quest

• Gene Finder FREE (web games)

• Genes and Your Cells FREE (web games)

• Gene Pool (board/card games), Ages 10+

• Linkage: A DNA Card Game (board/card games), Ages 10+

• Mitosis FREE (web games)

• Niche- a genetics survival game #Still in development as of 10/03/2017

• Nova’s RNA Lab FREE, SCIENCE SCORE =3

Ecology & Evolution (36 games)

• A walk in the woods Cost <$20 (board/card games), Ages 5-7

• Animality (board/card games)

• Berries, Bugs and Bullfrogs Cost <$20 (board/card games), Ages 4-7

• Biosphere (board/card games), Ages 12+

• Cascadia (board/card games), Ages 10+

• Clades (board/card games), Ages 6+

• Clades: Prehistoric (board/card games), Ages 6+

• Darwin's Choice (board/card games), Ages 10+

• Darwin's Choice: Before and After (board/card games), Ages 10+

• Darwinning (board/card games), Ages 9+

• Dominant Species (board/card games), Ages 14+

• Dominant Species: Marine (board/card games), Ages 14+

• Dominant Species: The Card Game (board/card games), Ages 13+

• Ecosystem (board/card games), Ages 10+

• Evo (board/card games), Ages 12+

• Evo: Second Edition (board/card games), Ages 12+

• Evolution (board/card games), Ages 10+

• Evolution (board/card games), Ages 12+

• Evolution: the Origin of the Species Ages 12+, Cost <$100 (board/card games)

• Evolution: Climate Ages 12+, Cost <$100 (board/card games)

• Go Extinct! (board/card games), Ages 8+, SCIENCE SCORE=3

• Go Extinct!: Megafauna (board/card games), Ages 8+, SCIENCE SCORE=3

• Habitat FREE

• Kingdoms Cost <$20 (board/card games)

• Life on Earth Matching Game Cost <$20 (board/card games)

• Lizard Island: Observation Cost <$10 (apple/android devices) Ages 9-11, English only

• Morphy FREE (web games), Ages 9-11, SCIENCE SCORE=3

• Nature FLUUX Cost <$30 (board/card games), Ages 8+

• Nature of the Beast: Prairie vs. Polar Cost <$50 (board/card games), Ages 12+

• Neanderthal (board/card games), Ages 14+

• Nova’s Evolution Lab FREE, SCIENCE SCORE =3

• Oceans (board/card games), Ages 12+

• Primordial Soup Cost <$100 (board/card games)

• Primordial Soup: Freshly Spiced Cost <$100 (board/card games)

• Strain Cost <$100 (board/card games)

• Volvox Cost <$20

Marine and Freshwater Biology (15 games)

• Benthic Love FREE (web games), SCIENCE SCORE=2

• The Bug Catcher Game FREE

• Eft to Newt FREE (web games), SCIENCE SCORE=1

• Finding Stubby FREE (app)

• Frogger FREE (web games), SCIENCE SCORE=1

• iBiome- Wetland Cost <$10, (app), Ages 9-11, English only

• iBiome-Wetland School Edition Cost <$10, (app), Ages 9-11, English only

• Ice Flows FREE

• Krill: a Whale of a Card Game Cost <$50, (board/card games)

• The Magic School Bus: Oceans Cost <$50

• Marco Polo Arctic FREE (app), Ages <5

• Marco Polo Oceans FREE (app, Ages <5

• Reef Check Game FREE (web games)

• Scribbly Walrus FREE (web games)

• Turtle Trails- Save me! Cost <$10, (app), Ages 9-11, English only

Invertebrate Biology (9 games)

• The Bug Catcher Game FREE

• Empires of the Undergrowth #Still in development as of 11/08/17

• Eufriesea- A Game of Orchid Bees FREE (web games), SCIENCE SCORE=1

• Expedition: Insects FREE

• Insecta (board/card games), Ages 10+

• Myrmes Cost <$100 (board/card games)

• Parasites Unleashed! Cost <$100 (board/card games)

• Shutterbugs: Wiggle and Stomp FREE (web games), Ages 4-7, SCIENCE SCORE=3

• TyrAnt (web games)

Vertebrate Biology (27 games)

• Acorn Arcade FREE

• American Megafauna (board/card games), Age 9+

• American Megafauna 2nd Edition Expansion (board/card games), Age 9+

• Animal Jam FREE

• Bird Memory Tiles Cost <$30 (board/card games)

• Echo the Bat FREE (web games)

• Going Batty FREE

• Habitats FREE (web games), Ages 9-12, SCIENCE SCORE=3

• The Handsomest Echidna FREE (web games), SCIENCE SCORE=1

• Happy Match FREE (web games), SCIENCE SCORE=4

• Loris Pet Simulator FREE (web games), SCIENCE SCORE=1

• Mammals by Tinybop Cost <$5 (app)

• Mission Migration FREE (web games)

• Pangolin Valentine FREE (web games), SCIENCE SCORE=1

• Poo: the Card Game Cost <$20 (board/card games), SCIENCE SCORE=1

• Savannah Park, (board/card games), Ages 8+

• Shelter Cost <$20

• Shelter 2 Cost <$20

• Shelter 2: Paws Cost <$20

• Showbiz Safari FREE (web games), Ages 5-8, SCIENCE SCORE=3

• Wingspan (board/card games). Ages 10+. Cost $<100, SCIENCE SCORE=2

• Wingspan: European expansion Ages 10+. Cost $<100, SCIENCE SCORE=2

• Wingspan: Oceania expansion Ages 10+. Cost $<100, SCIENCE SCORE=2

• Wingspan: Asia expansion Ages 10+. Cost $<100, SCIENCE SCORE=2

• Who’s Got the Bones? Cost <$20 (board/card games)

• Wolfquest Cost <$10

• Zooloretto Cost <$100 (board/card games)

Botany & Mycology (10 games)

• Arboretum Cost <$100 (board/card games)

• Bloom by Megalearn Cost <$5 (app), Ages 6-8, Multiple languages

• Canopy (board/card games), Ages 8+

• Fraxinus FREE (web game), SCIENCE SCORE=4

• Fungi FREE (video game)

• Ora #In development as of 12/08/2017

• Photosynthesis Cost <$100 (board/card games), SCIENCE SCORE=1

• Prune Cost <$5

• Wildcraft! A herbal adventure Cost <$50 (board/card games)

• Wild Cards: Edible Wild Food Cards Cost <$10 (board/card games)

Environmental Management (17 games)

• Agricultural Simulator Cost <$10 (web games)

• Block’hood Cost <$10 (web games)

• Camp Cost <$20 (board/card games)

• Catchment Detox FREE (web games)

• Ciclania FREE

• Climway FREE (web games)

• Climate Defence FREE (app)

• CO2 Cost <$100 (board/card games)

• ElectroCity FREE (web games)

• Farming Simulator Cost <$50 (video games)

• The Fish Game FREE (web games)

• Forgotten Island FREE (web games) SCIENCE SCORE=4

• Ginkolpolis Cost <$100 (board/card games)

• Never Alone Cost <$20

• Save the Park FREE

• Sim City EDU: Pollution Challenge FREE

• Whale Science

Meteorology & Disasters (10 games)

• Disaster Detector FREE (web games/app) Ages 11-14, English only, SCIENCE SCORE=3

• Disaster Watch FREE (web games), SCIENCE SCORE=2

• Flood Sim FREE (web games), SCIENCE SCORE=2

• Game of Floods FREE (board/card games). DIY game

• MarcoPolo Weather FREE (app) Ages <5, Multiple languages

• Nova’s Cloud Lab FREE, SCIENCE SCORE =3

• Stop Disasters FREE (web games) Ages 9-16

• Stornwatchers FREE (web games)

• Weather Lab FREE

• Young Meteorologist Program FREE

Geoscience & Astronomy (17 games)

• Black Hole Rescue FREE

• Bone Wars: the Game of Ruthless Palaeontology Cost <$100 (board/card games)

• Crude: The Oil Game Cost <$100 (board/card games)

• Crystals Rule FREE

• The Crystalline Game FREE (web games), SCIENCE SCORE=3

• Drifting Lands (board/card games), Ages 10+

• Erosion Cost <$100 (board/card games)

• Fossil Forensics Cost <$10 (app), Ages 9-11, English only

• Geology Jeopardy FREE

• Monopoly: Dinosaur Edition Cost <$100 (board/card games)

• Nova’s Sun Lab FREE, English only, SCIENCE SCORE =3

• Planet Hunters SCIENCE SCORE=4

• Professor Niggin’s Earth Science Cost <$100 (board/card games)

• Rock On Cost <$20 (board/card games)

• Terraforming Mars (board/card games). Ages 12+, Cost >$100

• Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition (board/card games)

• Universe Sandbox Cost <$50, (video games), SCIENCE SCORE=2

The History & Practice of Science (9 games)

• The Art of Science Cost <$100 (board/card games)

• Mars Generation One: Argubot Academy Cost <$5

• Odyssey- The Next Generation Cost <$20 (web games)

• Science: A Race to Publish FREE

• Science Mystery FREE (web games)

• Tesla vs. Edison: War of Currents (board/card games)

• Tesla vs. Edison: Duel (board/card games)

• The New Science Cost <$100 (board/card games)

• Women in Science Cost <$100 (board/card games)

Various themes (4 games)

• Darwin Awards Party Card Game (board/card games), Ages 13+

• Free Rice (quizzes) FREE (web games) Ages >10, English only

• Science Papa Cost <$20 (web games)

• Science Bingo Cost <$20 (board/card games)