GOG takes the story of Polish video games to the walls of the Warsaw Barbican
An open-air exhibition on the history of Polish game development is now up on the walls of the Barbican in Warsaw’s Old Town. We’re incredibly proud to be the patron of the exhibition, prepared together with the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Indie Games Poland Foundation.
Eighteen boards, each in Polish and English, run from the games written on 8-bit machines in the 1980s to productions that sell in the millions today. The Witcher 3, Cyberpunk 2077, This War of Mine, Frostpunk, SUPERHOT, Medieval Dynasty, The Thaumaturge and Carrion each get a board of their own, next to chapters on the constraints the first Polish developers worked under, the moment local studios started selling abroad, and the independent scene that came after.
The exhibition is built on “Digital Dreamers”, created by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Indie Games Poland to present Polish game development to audiences outside the country. We’ve worked on adapting it for the Barbican, added four boards of its own and covered the design, printing, installation and removal.
We are proud that GOG gets to be the patron telling this story, not only a place where these games are sold. Games are cultural heritage worth keeping, and that is an easier case to make when you can point at a wall in the middle of the Old Town. Thanks to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and to Indie Games Poland for building it with us.
Piotr GnypSenior PR at GOG
Warsaw is the city we work from, and one of the boards on the Barbican belongs to it. By headcount it is also the largest game development centre in Europe: 6,343 game industry professionals, ahead of London, Stockholm and Berlin, plus 307 game companies, around 37 percent of all such companies in Poland. The figures come from a report on the games industry in Warsaw commissioned by the City of Warsaw and published in 2026.
The exhibition is on the walls of the Warsaw Barbican, open to everyone at any hour and free of charge, until late September.