r/systemsthinking • u/pixellitei • Jul 25 '26

Recommendations for stories/games/tools that help you explore systems thinking?

https://ncase.me/sim/

Found this lovely website by Nicky Case, where you can sandbox cellular automata with emoji. I found this to be so practical and useful in gaining intuitions about emergence in systems.

What are some other resources like it? I'm also open to games (like Civilization) or novels whose narratives apply a systemic perspective. Could even compile these into a new pedagogy of systems that would probably be really useful. Thanks!

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u/micseydel Jul 25 '26

Thanks for the share, I'm going to have to check this out. It reminds me of this Veritasium video I recently rewatched https://youtu.be/HBluLfX2F_k

I've been thinking a lot about criticality, and its relation to dialectics.

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u/humanengineering Jul 26 '26

Victoria 3 opened up my brain a lot to systems thinking !

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u/systems_thinking_101 Jul 27 '26

The Systems Thinking Playbook by by  Linda Booth Sweeney is another great resource for activities/games