Web of Life

Tune a living food web into balance — pull one thread and the whole population graph reacts in real time.

How to play

A food web of producers, prey and predators runs as a live simulation while a scrolling graph tracks every population. Your job is to keep each species inside its healthy band. Hold the whole web stable for a full cycle and the ecosystem is balanced — let a species crash to extinction and it collapses.

• Release boosts a population; Cull reduces it
• Remove deletes a node and triggers a cascade through everything that ate it or fed on it
• Re-introduce restores a removed species to repair the web

Controls

• Desktop: click the Release, Cull, Remove and Re-introduce buttons on each species row
• Phone & tablet: tap the same on-screen action buttons — no keyboard needed

Game modes

• Difficulty: Easy, Medium or Hard webs of increasing complexity
• Daily and Practice seeds, plus Reset to restart the current web

Tips & strategy

• Removing a predator often lets prey explode and starve the plants — watch two steps ahead
• Small nudges beat big ones; over-correcting throws the next species out of band
• Keep every original species present — missing nodes block the stability streak

What you'll learn

Web of Life is an ecosystem simulation that models predator-prey dynamics and trophic cascades, showing how a food web stays in balance.

• Skills: ecology, food webs, predator–prey dynamics, trophic levels, systems thinking
• Best for: roughly grades 6–11 (ages 11–16)
• For parents & teachers: makes the fragility of ecosystems visible.

About Web of Life

Web of Life is an original ecosystem-balancing simulation that models predator-prey dynamics and trophic cascades. It's a free browser game with no install required.

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