In the field of museums, professionals and commentators generally consider that cultural content is never immediately accessible. It is precisely the role of "cultural interpretation" to add a medium between a cultural content and its receivers to guide its interpretation. However, the speech on the immediacy of the play experience, which comes from the gaming industry, is also used in the area of museums: games are sometimes promoted as a way to immediately grasp cultural contents. This article focuses on two games created at the Mucem (Museum of the Civilizations of Europe and the Mediterranean), a national public museum located in Marseille. Based on a participant observa-tion and interviews with professionals of this museum, it questions the relevance of the choice of games as objects of interpretation. It shows that, paradoxically, the games that are supposed to make the appropriation of museum con-tent easier for people who don't usually visit museums can make it more complex. Indeed, because people must master both game conventions and museum codes in order to use these objects, these games require new actions of interpretation. This conclusion qualifies the alleged immediacy of the play experience, and the ability of museum games to bridge the gap between the museum and its audiences.