PLAYTOPIA, Africa’s premier Indie Games & Immersive Arts Festival and Summit, returns in December 2025. With over 1000 festival goers, it has become a one-of-a-kind African celebration of video games and interactive playfulness. 

Festival-goers can look forward to a showcase of the freshest cutting-edge games in PLAYTOPIA’s Arcadia, as well as the premiere of local studio (in collaboration with Devolver Digital), Teamlazerbeam’s ‘Shroom and Gloom’ game with its own large-scale Shroom tunnel and cave! The Super Friendship Arcade returns with custom-controller experiences, a new roster of renowned international speakers such as Abubakar Salim (UK), Iris Compiet (NL), Doug Wilson (AUS), Meg Clarke (UK), Seth S Smith (US) and many more, and of course, the return of the Indie Planet Exhibition featuring the best in show games from BCN Games Fest (Barcelona), Freeplay (Australia) Bitsummit (Japan) and A.Maze (Germany).

This year, PLAYTOPIA enters an exciting new chapter. For the first time, the festival’s immersive art installations will be curated and created by The Art Massive, a new community of artists co-founded by the festival director and established interactive creatives who have previously exhibited at PLAYTOPIA. In the run-up to the festival, The Art Massive has been actively building community through meetups and jams, echoing the grassroots model that has made the local gaming scene so vibrant. Their work will bring a new depth of collaboration and artistic energy to the festival floor.

Ticket Price: From R250 - R1000

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