Buying Games & Licences

Free games cost nothing and need no purchase. Every paid game on edu.games is licensed the same way: per seat, per year, where a seat is one student. You choose how many seats and whether the licence renews itself.

What a seat is

A seat is claimed by a student the first time they play or launch the game, and it stays theirs for the life of the licence. Seats are pooled across all your classes — one seat per distinct student, handed out first come, first served — so buy enough for the number of different students who will play, not the number of classes. One licence covers every build of a game: a student with a seat can play the browser version and the Windows version. You, the buying teacher, play without using a seat.

Buying seats

1. Create at least one class first — checkout refuses with “Create a class before buying seats” otherwise.
2. Open Browse Games and click the game. The price is shown per seat per year. Use ▶ Preview Free to play the full game yourself before deciding.
3. Set Seats (1 to 500).
4. Leave Auto-renew yearly (cancel anytime) ticked for a subscription, or untick it and choose Years (1 to 10) to pay once for a fixed term. The total is shown before you continue.
5. Press Subscribe (auto-renew) or Buy Seats (fixed term). You are taken to Stripe checkout; prices are in Australian dollars. When payment completes you return to My Games with a “Purchase complete” notice and an emailed receipt.

After buying

A licensed game appears on the dashboard of every student in any of your classes straight away — you don’t have to assign it, though you can still assign it to curate a class’s list. Buying more seats later adds a second licence for the same game; the seats pool together.

My Games

My Games lists your Seat Licences grouped by game, with a headline like 12 of 30 seats used and a table per licence:

• Covers — All your classes for seat pools.
• Seats used — claimed seats out of the total for that licence.
• Renewal — Renews and a date for subscriptions, Expires and a date for fixed terms.
• Manage — on subscriptions only; opens Stripe’s billing portal where you can update the card or cancel.

The page warns you in amber when a game has five or fewer seats left, and in red at one or none, so you can top up before a new student is locked out.

Renewals, cancellation and refunds

• Subscriptions renew each year at the same seat count. Cancel from Manage; the licence runs to the end of the paid period and then stops.
• Fixed-term licences simply expire on the date shown. Buy again to continue.
• Refunds revoke the licence: students lose access to the game as soon as the refund is processed, and you receive a notice by email.
• When a licence ends, the play data students generated stays in Insights.

Licences bought by your school

If you belong to an institution (see My Institution), your school can buy an institution-wide licence. Its seats cover the students of every teacher in the organisation, and the game appears on your students’ dashboards without you buying anything. See For Institutions.