Be there, from November 12-15, 2025!

The 18th PLAY - Creative Gaming Festival invites you to discover the world of creative games: with interactive workshops, exciting inputs on digital gaming culture and lots of opportunities to get involved.

Online and on site in Hamburg
We are at new, exciting and inspiring locations in the heart of Hamburg's port: the URBANEO - Young Architecture Center and right next door: NEW WORK.

Take Care!
This year's festival theme "Take Care" focuses on the topic of responsibility - as a game mechanic, in game narratives about care work, through supporting roles in multiplayer games and with a view to the big question of social responsibility and care for our planet. PLAY25 invites you to a critical and creative examination of the mechanisms of action, production conditions and practices surrounding the interactive medium of computer games.

You can take part in talks, workshops, shows and our exhibition!

(If you can't come physically, you can do it virtually: PLAY Valley)