Corporate serious games: bespoke programmes and learning experiences

Narrative play for training and transformation

Tackling complex change, training your people or aligning a leadership team takes more than another slide deck. Since 2015, Arcane has been designing serious games (corporate serious games) and immersive simulators delivered in person (IRL), enhanced with digital tools. By placing learners at the heart of interactive scenarios, our concepts draw on game-based learning and gamification to deliver lasting knowledge retention and engagement levels close to 100%.

  • 200+ serious games created since 2015 for large corporates, institutions and SMEs.

  • Engagement close to 100% because our professional actors bring the characters to life.

  • Member of the FFTB (French Team Building Federation) and rated 4.6/5 on Google.

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Our bespoke design methodology

Every organisation has its own codes, its own vocabulary and its own challenges. That’s why we never drop a generic solution onto a complex brief. Our agency follows a proven 5-step learning design process to make your project a success:

01
Audit & Scoping

Upfront analysis of your challenges, with surveys or interviews among your target audience to gauge learners' starting level of knowledge.

02
Learning Game Design

Co-building the game mechanics (escape room, simulator, board game or gamified journey) around your learning objectives.

03
Prototyping & Crash-Test

A prototype built and tested in real conditions by our designers before final rollout.

04
Production & Facilitation

Materials delivered on site and sessions hosted by our professional actors.

05
Debrief & Post-Event

Learning takeaways shared and learning impact measured.

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Serious games for professional training

The serious game is a powerful way to speed up skills development when built into an L&D (Learning & Development) pathway or an onboarding session. This game-based training approach drives effective learning through play , where learners put theory into practice in a safe environment, and where getting it wrong becomes a way to learn.

Whether you’re training sales teams, bringing managers up to speed or refreshing your internal training materials, our corporate games fit your learning design constraints.

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Client stories and bespoke projects

See how our clients use bespoke serious games to meet their strategic challenges:

Change management & Transformation

NATO: a gamified workshop supporting strategic change management.

👉 Read the NATO case study

EDF: a programme to build shared culture and employee engagement.

👉 Read the EDF case study

Artelia: a gamified forum and internal integration event (Agora).

👉 Read the Artelia case study

Simulation & Crisis management

Cisco: an immersive cyber crisis simulation to test how teams react to cyberattacks.

👉 Read the Cisco Cyber case study

Groupement Les Mousquetaires: a high-stakes crisis management simulation for decision-makers.

👉 Read the Les Mousquetaires case study

Management, Sales & Customer Experience

Saint-Gobain: a serious game on customer experience and service culture.

👉 Read the Saint-Gobain case study

Algeco: bespoke programmes on sales incentives and selling techniques.

👉 Read the Algeco Sales case study | Read the Selling Techniques case study

Moët Hennessy: an innovation forum raising awareness of strategic brand challenges.

👉 Read the Moët Hennessy case study

Cross-generational management: playful workshops to smooth collaboration between generations.

👉 Read the Konecta case study

Public sector & Institutions

European Commission: a bespoke institutional programme for awareness-raising at scale.

👉 Read the European Commission case study

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Our ready-to-play formats on key topics

For immediate needs or tighter budgets, we also offer a range of serious games ready to roll out on your priority topics:

Picto cyber

Cybersecurity & AI:
Raise awareness of IT risks with our cybersecurity team building.

Picto Bio

Sustainability & CSR:
Rally your teams around the green transition with Héritage & Les Gardiens.

Picto Cerveau

Mental health at work:
Take the stigma out of wellbeing with Follow the Brain 2.

Picto Personnes handicapées

Inclusion & Diversity:
Tackle discrimination with Follow the Brain 3 and our disability.

Picto Bio

Workplace wellbeing:
Prevent psychosocial risks with our workplace wellbeing awareness.

What our clients say

Vincent CONTE, Marketing & Development Director

Getting our sales teams to work in a playful format went down really well. You work on the substance in a form that genuinely engages people. They loved it!

Julie Alcouffe, Training & Development Project Manager

Through the game, players got to experience very different roles and really understand the full breadth of Artelia's business areas.

François Lesage, Head of Communications, Cisco France

I'd like to thank the Arcane team for their essential contribution to this project. I really valued our conversations, the quality of their recommendations and of the many deliverables they provided.

Réjane EVRARD, Director of UNIE (EDF)

The event was a real success and our employees took to the game straight away. It gave them a very practical, concrete grasp of the strategic plan.

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Corporate serious game design: frequently asked questions

How long does it take to design a bespoke serious game?

Creating a bespoke serious game takes on average 3 to 5 months of development to cover the audit, game design, prototyping and production of the materials. For tighter deadlines, our ready-to-play themed formats (CSR, Cyber, workplace wellbeing) can be rolled out within days.

What budget should you plan for a corporate serious game?

The investment depends on how ambitious the project is. A bespoke creation starts from €8,000 (if you produce the materials yourself) or from €12,000 (full production included), and can go up to €40,000 depending on how complex the programme is. For a session based on a corporate game from our catalogue, prices start at a few thousand euros.

What's the difference between an escape room and a serious game?

An escape room is built around entertainment and team cohesion through puzzle-solving. A serious game (or learning game) uses game-based learning to meet specific learning objectives : building skills, change management or crisis management. Any serious game can borrow escape room mechanics, but its purpose remains the professional development of the learners.

How do you measure the impact of a serious game on employees?

We agree the key indicators with you upfront. As standard, we include a quiz at the end of the session to capture immediate participant feedback, and we help you put customised measurement criteria in place.

Our success stories

Many companies have already called on Arcane’s expertise in designing event games. From team cohesion to training, CSR awareness-raising and more, the challenges are always different. So are the themes, because Arcane games have covered:

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