South Africa Mobile Game Market Statistics 2025 for Android

In South Africa, gaming represents only a small slice of consumers’ annual media and entertainment spend. Nevertheless, mobile gaming is growing fast, with the best year-on-year growth rates of any media type, including books, magazines, cinema, music, and podcasts. Considering the country’s high rates of smartphone penetration this should come as no surprise. South Africa, as with much of the world, is increasingly mobile-first when it comes to gaming.

In this article, we provide a number of detailed mobile games statistics and insights from the South African Android game market. We cover a number of topics, including how many South African game publishers are active on Google Play, how many mobile games they have released, and how South African mobile games have performed compared to the global average. The data is aggregated based on address, meaning only app publishers with valid South African addresses listed on Google Play have been considered.