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. With an epic decor team headed up by Natasha Davidson (Africa Burn, Bazique), fabrication has begun on ‘Arcadia’ – a fantasy styled library with portholes, spell books, potions and magic crystals to transport players to the deepest parts of their childhood imaginations while inside the festival.  

Date: 5 – 6  December 2025
Venue: Homecoming Centre, Cape Town
Tickets: https://playtopiafestival.co.za
Price: From R250 – R1000

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).