Cubetown Perth: Our Family Review

We’re Adam & Celine, and we travel with our three boys (16, 14, and 11 at the time of our visit), and visiting Cubetown in Perth has been one of our most memorable stops.

We were looking for indoor activities in Perth (in the dead heat of December) that would keep older kids entertained without breaking the bank. Cubetown checked those boxes. Our total time on-site was about 90 minutes, including check-in, 60 minutes of active play time across five rooms, and short breaks between each room.

We walked out tired but happy – mission accomplished. Our boys loved how Cubetown turns gaming into active play.

 

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Quick overview: Is Cubetown Perth worth it for families?

Cubetown Perth is an indoor active gaming venue where you play games using your whole body instead of a controller. Think of it as a full-scale arcade where the floor, walls, and hoops all light up, and you run, jump, climb, and compete against the clock. Our boys (ages 16, 14, and 11) visited during our Perth trip, and we left sweaty, tired, and genuinely impressed.

Cubetown Perth serves as a major hub for families and international students, and it’s a popular spot for birthdays and student social outings. Families and kids love the energy and variety of activities here, making it a go-to destination for group fun.

This isn’t a sit-down arcade. It’s quite a workout disguised as fun. If your kids enjoy video games and don’t mind breaking a sweat, Cubetown Perth is a solid choice. If they dislike physical activity, loud spaces, or timed challenges, you might want to skip it. Cubetown also offers a unique venue for hosting birthday parties and team-building activities, which adds to its appeal for families and groups.

There’s also a Cubetown location in Melbourne (Cubetown Glen Waverley), but this guide focuses exclusively on the Perth venue in Rivervale.

What is Cubetown? The Concept, History & Locations

Cubetown is an active gaming arena where you move your whole body through timed challenges – some cooperative and some competitive (you get to choose each round in case your family needs a break from being overly competitive like ours… just saying.) We did enjoy watching our points and competing on the leaderboard:

Each room features light-up elements—floor tiles, wall targets, basketball hoops—and you run, jump, and climb to hit them before time runs out. It’s a concept that blends arcade-style scoring with physical agility and quick thinking. We read the Cubetown experience as a fresh take on video game-inspired entertainment, focusing on active, immersive play rather than passive gaming.

The idea behind Cubetown came from combining the competitive thrill of video games with real-world movement. The brand launched in Australia with exclusively designed games that you won’t find at a typical arcade or trampoline park. The Perth location opened as part of the brand’s expansion beyond Melbourne, giving Western Australian families access to this unique entertainment space. The venue at Cubetown typically features 5 themed rooms (with a 6th “beta testing” some new game ideas), allowing participants roughly 12 minutes in each room during a one-hour session.

Cubetown currently operates in two locations in Australia:

• Glen Waverley (Melbourne, VIC) – the original Cubetown Glen location
• Rivervale (Perth, WA) – the venue we visited while housesitting in Perth

Cubetown features five themed rooms designed for interactive gaming. The venue also has a dedicated party room available for booking for special events. Across its arenas, Cubetown includes dozens of different games.

How does Cubetown compare to other activities?

• Similar to an escape room in the timed, challenge-based format, but with no puzzles to “solve” in the traditional sense
• Physical like a ninja warrior course or trampoline park, requiring you to run, jump, and climb
• Scored like an arcade, with points displayed on screens and competition between players

What to expect at a visit to Cubetown Perth

Cubetown Perth is located at 143 Great Eastern Highway, Rivervale, WA. It’s an indoor venue (in the same building as iFly Perth), which makes it a great option for hot summer days or when Perth’s weather turns rainy. There is onsite parking since Cubetown shares a building with iFly indoor skydiving.

The standard session format at Cubetown Perth works like this:

• There are 5 themed rooms – each a completely different style of game (plus a 6th room for beta testing new games)
• Your group gets to play each room for 12 minutes
• Total game time is 60 minutes (5 x 12 minutes)
• Total visit is about 90 minutes with setup and breaks between each room

When you arrive, staff walk you through a brief safety check and explain how the games work. Before you start your first room, they’ll talk you through the specific game modes available and help set the difficulty level on touch screens. You can choose to work as a team or go head-to-head against other players.

After the first room, you’ll understand how the system works – it was intuitive for our boys after that.

Practical details for families:

• Parking is available onsite
• You’ll get a basket to take your belongings from room to room with you (purse, phones, water bottles, etc.)
• Bathroom access is available (rooms are spread across 2 floors with facilities on each)
• Parents can watch from outside the rooms if they prefer not to participate (at the end of our visit, I [Adam] was just taking photos and video – someone had to be the cameraman)
• We found the staff to be very friendly, great with our kids, and helpful throughout our session when we had a question

Inside the 5 Cubetown Perth rooms (games & physical challenge)

Cubetown Perth features five themed rooms, each designed around a different type of movement and challenge.

You rotate through all five during your session, with the clock counting down in each space. Every room tests different skills—coordination, speed, memory, teamwork—and keeps scores visible on screens so you can track how you’re doing.

Room 1: Basketball hoops room

Swish is a high-energy basketball game where players shoot into glowing, color-changing hoops under a time limit.

Multiple basketball hoops line the walls, each with light-up backboards. The lights indicate where to shoot, and you grab balls and fire them at the lit targets as fast as you can. Our 16 and 14-year-olds turned this into epic battles, competing head-to-head, while our 11-year-old preferred the cooperative modes where the whole family worked together towards gaining points for our family on the leaderboard.

Room 2: Climbing wall room

Climbing handles light up, and you climb to tap the correct ones. Here’s the catch: red handles light up to signal “off limits,” and touching them costs you points. This room felt more like a climbing gym puzzle than a traditional video game. Our boys had to engage both their bodies and brains, figuring out routes while avoiding the red zones. This was the room that really made us sweat.

Room 3: Spelling and word challenge room

Buttons and panels are spaced around the walls of this room. You run to hit room letters or symbols in sequence to spell words or solve patterns. This one mixes mental challenge with physical effort—remembering what word you’re spelling while sprinting across the space definitely raised our heart rates. It’s a test of both thinking and speed.

Room 4: Bullseye Reaction and coordination room (Hitting targets with inflated balls)

The fifth room offers another variation of light-up targets focused on reaction time and hand-eye coordination. Throw balls to hit particular targets at proper times. Easy settings are a single-color target, while harder settings are targets of a certain color configuration with an outer ring, inner ring, and bullseye.

Room 5: Floor tiles room

The entire floor is covered in light-up colored tiles. When a color lights up, you run, step, or jump to hit it before it vanishes or follow particular patterns, or touch your neighbors’ squares to take over their territory (Depending on the game you choose). Some game modes encourage cooperation (everyone works together to reach room targets), while others pit players against each other in thrilling challenges. Our boys loved trying to beat each other’s scores while we attempted to keep up.

Throughout all five arenas, kids and adults share the same space. You can work together toward a team score or split into friendly competition – adjusting the rounds as you go to your liking, either competitive or cooperative, and to varying difficulty, which allows you to accumulate points for the daily leaderboard at the front desk.

Bonus Room 6: Beta Testing

When we visited, Cubetown was testing out some new games and asked for our feedback on playing them. Control blocks on the wall with what looks like an oversized video game controller. The squares on the floor also play a part in combinations that you need to outwit fellow players, cooperatively play tetris, or play a unique game that’s still in development and offer feedback at the front desk.

How physical is it? Ages, fitness level, and calorie burn

Cubetown markets itself as “active gaming,” and that’s accurate. This isn’t a casual afternoon of sitting around. We left genuinely tired, and so did our three boys (mission accomplished).

Calorie burn: During our hour at Cubetown, my Apple Watch said I burned almost 400 calories. By the end of our session, everyone was catching their breath and reaching for water bottles.

Age recommendations: Our boys (16, 14, and 11) were the right ages for Cubetown. They understood the rules quickly, moved fast, and enjoyed the competition. The official minimum age is typically around 6-8 years old, but older kids and teens tend to get the most out of the experience. Younger children may feel rushed by the countdown timers or struggle to keep up with faster family members.

Fitness level considerations:

• Fine for generally healthy kids and adults
• May be challenging if you have joint issues, mobility limits, or dislike running and climbing
• Parents can sit out a room if needed—there’s no requirement that everyone participate in every challenge (our youngest loved the basketball and climbing wall challenges, but after a couple rounds of spelling in room 3, decided it was a good time for a break.)

What to wear:

• Closed-toe athletic shoes (no sandals or flip-flops)
• Breathable, comfortable clothes you can move in
• Avoid jeans or restrictive clothing that could slow you down
• Bring a water bottle

Our family’s experience at Cubetown, Perth: what we liked and what to know before you go

We visited Cubetown Perth as a traveling family looking for an indoor activity that would keep three boys entertained. We’d heard it was part arcade, part workout, and that sounded perfect for our crew.

What our kids enjoyed most:

• The pressure of the countdown clock kept everyone focused
• Live score updates on screens added competition without needing to keep track manually
• Being able to switch between cooperative and competitive modes meant everyone stayed engaged
• Playing together with friends can make the games even more fun and engaging, especially during group activities or birthday celebrations

Some favourite moments from our visit to Cubetown Perth:

• Our 16 and 14-year-olds got into an intense score battle in the basketball room that came down to the final seconds.
• In the climbing wall room, our 11-year-old almost grabbed a red handle right before time ran out—the look of relief when he pulled back in time was priceless.
• Bullseye (Hit), where you throw balls at a giant wall of flashing hexagonal targets, was a game that had everyone aiming for the highest score.
• We won’t mention how badly us parents got beaten in the floor tiles room (okay, it was pretty bad).

What surprised us:

• 12 minutes in each room goes by faster than you’d expect
• By room three, we were genuinely getting a workout—heart rates up, breathing heavy
• The short breaks between rooms were necessary, not optional

• Energy and competition was high – great for boys our age (but the intensity may not be right for much younger kids)

From a parent’s perspective, we’d recommend Cubetown Perth as a good value for families with older kids and teens who want something beyond a standard arcade. It’s active, it’s fun, and it’s genuinely different from any other indoor activities in Perth (and even though there was no shortage of things to do with kids in Perth, Cubetown stood out as unique.)

Practical tips: booking, pricing & when to visit Cubetown Perth

Check Cubetown Perth’s official website before your visit to book an available spot.

Session options:

• Standard sessions run for 60 minutes of game time across all five rooms
• Public holiday and school holiday sessions may have less availability – best to book ahead on the Cubetown Perth website.
• Most bookings accommodate families of 4-6 people comfortably (if you have a group of more than 6, then split into multiple smaller groups of 4 or 5 people)

When to visit:

• Pre-booking is essential on weekends and during school holidays in Perth
• Midweek sessions (Monday through Friday daytime) tend to be quieter
• Early sessions often have fewer people, which means less noise and more space to explore

Planning checklist:

• Arrive 10-15 minutes early for registration
• Wear comfortable athletic clothes and closed shoes
• Bring a water bottle
• Plan a light snack or meal afterward—kids often leave hungry after burning plenty of energy
• Sign any required waivers online beforehand if the option is available so you can get straight to sweating when you arrive.
• Charge your phone before you arrive. There are plenty of opportunities for great photos and video with the games rooms lit up.

Is Cubetown Perth a good fit for your family? Final thoughts

Cubetown Perth works best for kids aged 8 and up, especially teens who enjoy video games, competition, and physical challenges. Parents who are happy to join in—or at least tolerate loud, energetic spaces—will have a good time too.

The experience runs about 90 minutes door-to-door for one session. That includes 60 minutes of active play across five rooms, giving kids a unique way to run, jump, and engage with games on a Perth trip. For families visiting Perth, Cubetown is a worthwhile “splurge” indoor activity, particularly on a hot or rainy day when outdoor options aren’t ideal.

Our boys still talk about their scores and want to go back to beat them. That’s a pretty good sign.

If you’re planning more time in Perth or Western Australia with your family, there are so many things to do with kids in Perth. If you’re looking for more activities to fill your visit to Perth, check out our list of what we did while house sitting in Perth (and what’s still on our list for our next visit!)

Here are some of our favorite photos from Cubetown, Perth