Ghosts of Melbourne Self-Guided City Exploration Game

Explore Melbourne's haunted side with a self-guided city exploration game that blends ghost stories, outdoor escape game challenges, and a treasure hunt.

Getting started

Unlock your experience in the Questo app using your booking number and email, then create your account and download the self-guided city exploration game via app. Once set up, you can start the outdoor escape game and treasure hunt whenever you like after booking. Begin walking to your first location in central Melbourne and follow the in-app directions and story prompts.

What to expect

Alfred Place and Parliament House

The route first leads you around Alfred Place and towards Parliament House, where you start uncovering Melbourne’s darker stories in the middle of its political heart.

Features

• Your self-guided game played via app uses location-based prompts to move you between Alfred Place and Parliament House while ghost stories unfold around you.
• The format mixes an outdoor escape game and treasure hunt, so each stop in this area involves solving clues and unlocking the next chapter of the narrative.
• This section of the game route featuring Alfred Place and Parliament House includes both well-known views and lesser-known places tied into the story written by talented writers.

Her Majesty’s Theater and Princess Theater

Next, the route takes you to Melbourne’s theater district, including Her Majesty’s Theater and the Princess Theater, where legends of on-stage and backstage spirits take center stage.

Features

• The game route featuring Her Majesty’s Theater lets you interact with app-based ghost stories as you solve puzzles connected to this historic venue.
• At the Princess Theater, the story focuses on the Princess Theater’s own famous ghost, revealed through in-app tasks that function like an outdoor escape game.
• Clues at both Her Majesty’s Theater and the Princess Theater are integrated into the treasure hunt, keeping you moving between façades and nearby streets while staying fully self-guided.

First train station

Toward the end of the experience, you reach the first train station to be built in Australia, where past journeys and lingering tales come together.

Features

• This stop highlights the first train station as a key location, with the app using it as the backdrop for one of the final ghost stories and challenges.
• Tasks here continue the outdoor escape game and treasure hunt format, asking you to observe details around the station to progress.
• The game route featuring the first train station completes the sequence of major landmarks and can be played at your own pace, including by groups over 15 who simply make multiple bookings, since it is playable anytime after booking.

Wrapping up

Once you solve the final puzzle at the first train station, the game concludes in-app, and you are free to continue exploring nearby areas or head to public transportation, without needing to revisit any checkpoints or reschedule.