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This major exhibition celebrates over 50 years of play. Experience more than 30 iconic Videogames and 44 playable moments, from groundbreaking 1970s titles to today.

Game Worlds: Playable Exhibition explores the worlds Videogames create, and how they’ve shaped the way we play and connect. The exhibition is curated and developed by ACMI, Australia’s museum of screen culture and the home of Videogames.

Play, explore, compete!

Journey behind the scenes of some of the world’s most influential games. Discover how developers, players and technology bring these digital worlds to life.

Play Game Worlds Videogames in ways you can’t at home. See original builds, rare design materials and hands-on prototypes. Join a 1990s LAN party or race a record-breaking speedrunner.

Step into worlds filled with sprawling cities, thriving farms and epic adventures – and online realms that connect millions of players around the world.

Videogames in the exhibition

Game Worlds includes international hits:

• Minecraft (Mojang Studios)

• Final Fantasy XIV Online (Square Enix)

• World of Warcraft (Blizzard Entertainment)

• The Sims (Electronic Arts)

• The Elder Scrolls Online (ZeniMax Online Studios/Bethesda Softworks)

• Neopets (World of Neopia)

• SimCity (Electronic Arts)

• Stardew Valley (ConcernedApe)

• Australian release Hollow Knight: Silksong (Team Cherry)

The exhibition also features global indie games:

• Guardian Maia (Māori-led Metia Interactive) reimagines Aotearoa New Zealand through the eyes of Maia, a forest guardian

• Terra Nil (Free Lives/Devolver Digital)

• Celeste (Maddy Makes Games)

Historical highlights include early home-computer classics from the 1980s and 1990s, including:

• The Sentinel (Geoff Crammond/Firebird)

• The Hobbit (Melbourne House)

• DOOM (1993) (id Software/Bethesda Softworks)

• Team Fortress (Valve)

Alongside these are groundbreaking 1970s titles:

• Maze War (Greg Thompson and Dave Lebling)

• Colossal Cave Adventure (William Crowther)

• Zork (Infocom)