Download Active Worlds & Start Playing!

In order to visit Active Worlds, you must first download the browser. This is the client software that you will use to move around inside of the Worlds and navigate from one World to another. This is the full featured version of the browser, not a demo or trial version.

Before you can run the browser, please make sure you can meet these minimum system requirements:

PC Users:
Processor (greater than 133MHz recommended)
Windows 95/98/NT
16 megs of RAM (32 megs recommended)
50 megs disk space
256 color display(16 bit color recommended)

Mac Users:
OS 8.0 or better running PC emulation software.
G3 or iMac recommended.

Note: Active Worlds is a PC based software, and no performance guarantees are offered to Mac users.

If you connect to the Internet using AOL, please click here for additional information.

The Active Worlds Browser is only 1.67 megabytes!

Click here to download the English version

Alternate download sites:
Alternate Site 1
Alternate Site 2

For other language versions, please click here

When downloading the Active Worlds Browser, do not change the name of the download file. Once downloaded, double-click the file to install Active Worlds.

If you plan on building content in Active Worlds, please be sure to read the Content Guidelines page.

If you are having difficulty accessing Active Worlds, visit our Support Page for further help.