The European video game industry revenue

Video games represent one of Europe’s most compelling segments of cultural and creative industries. 2025 Key Facts Reports latest findings on industry revenue amount to €29.7 billion for EU16* and 25.7 billion for EU5**.

For the first time in almost seven years (2018-2024), the video game sector revenue in Europe has recorded a decrease of -4% rate.

*EU16: Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the Untied Kingdom.

**EU5: France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the Untied Kingdom.

2025 Key Facts report graph - industry revenue

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Europe is the home of some of the largest trade shows across the world

Trade shows across Europe allow the video games ecosystem to meet, interact and discuss the latest innovations and trends in games, and to discover and reveal upcoming releases for their licenses. Europe is the home of many of the largest trade events in the world. Some of the largest trade fairs worldwide are organised on a yearly basis, some of them attracting over 360,000 visitors.

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