Games Industry Africa

Africa Games Industry Report

• The African gaming market is a high-growth mobile-first sector, with the player base expanding from 77 million in 2015 to 186 million in 2021 and annual revenues projected to exceed $1 billion by 2024.
• Infrastructure instability remains the primary barrier to professionalization, with 60% of industry participants identifying poor power supply and high internet costs as critical obstacles to growth.
• The industry is currently in a nascent, hobbyist-dominated state where 59% of developers have never secured external investment and only 36% earn a full-time living from their work.