Spatial Risk Lab

A small disruption. A connected world. Explore seven systems, make your move and discover how uncertainty links places together.

Risk rarely stays where it starts.

A rail disruption strains neighbouring stations. A heatwave puts several cities under pressure. Trouble at one airport reaches far beyond its runway. Where will you act, and which connections will you change?

Spatial Risk Lab is a strategy and simulation game about keeping connected systems working under uncertainty. Watch the map, follow the changing pressure and decide how to use a limited budget. Pause to plan, support a location or adjust a connection, then see how the simulated system responds.

Seven connected worlds Explore finance, heat, air quality, health systems, rail transport, aviation and global supply. Each world brings different pressures, connections and choices.

Start with a rescue story The free practice mission guides you through a morning rail rescue, one decision at a time. Then take on 21 story chapters, choose an individual mission or try the weekly challenge.

Compare your decisions Follow maps and charts as a mission unfolds. Review your score, collect achievements and share a challenge with a friend to compare strategies on the same mission setup. Friend challenges use shared links or codes, without an online account or live multiplayer.

Discover the science A quiet average can conceal large fluctuations. Interactive explainers help you explore volatility: the changing size of fluctuations around an expected level. See clusters of high volatility, change connections and explore how relationships can operate across places within the same period, as well as over time. The ideas draw on research into spatial and spatiotemporal ARCH/GARCH-type models, with links to published papers.

No account, advertising or in-app purchases. Progress is saved on your device. Available in English, German, Russian, Italian, French, Spanish, European Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese.

All scenarios are illustrative simulations, not real-world forecasts or recommendations.