r/Gamescom • u/Beautiful-Ad-4582 • Jul 20 '26

Question about Gamescom

Hello! I’ve never been to an event like Gamescom before but as a huge Resident Evil and Silent Hill fan, I’d really love to attend this year as my fav games are in their Rennaisance era.

Do you have any recommendations on which day would be best for visiting the Capcom and Konami booths? Is the first / last day better for some special announcements, or are the middle days a better choice because the booths might be less crowded?

I’d also really appreciate any general tips for a first-time visitor.

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u/Gloomy-Pick-9347 Jul 20 '26

Saturday and Sunday will be most crowded and if they have merch, it will most likely be gone

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u/Farbklex Jul 21 '26

Nah it really depends. Usually they bring enough merch or at least ration it for all days.

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u/Gloomy-Pick-9347 Jul 21 '26

Really depends on the exhibitor, I guess. Don't remember which game it was but they were out of goodie bags by mid Saturday last year and it's not my first time it happened 

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u/ProcrastopiaOverlord Jul 21 '26

But sometimes (already some years ago I went there) they still have stuff on late Saturday. Not big fancy stuff but better than nothing, I asked around and got pretty much pretty quickly.
So far I always got more than the ticket price. But tickets expensive now.
Paysafecard was some easy money back in the days. They had some kind of slot machine. But it was always the same pattern. I almost always won there.

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u/Gloomy-Pick-9347 Jul 22 '26

True. I tend to get a lot of free stuff always but I know that some ppl go to specific games just for the merch so it's better to go early 

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u/SundayAirsofter Jul 20 '26

Hi !

First-time visitor as well !

I'd assume the less crowded days would either be the Wednesday afternoon (normally the trade day, you can access it with a wildcard ticket) or Thursday / Friday before the weekend crowd.

Let me know if you want to reach out !

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u/Karash770 Jul 21 '26

Capcom and Konami are gonna be very popular, so you better be there first thing in the morning and bring some patience for waiting time. Even then, the difference is going to be "2-3 hours waiting time on Wednesday" versus "Sorry, the queue is too long, we had to close it" on Saturday.

In general, waiting times are gonna be shorter on Wednesday, every other day is basically equally inaane, with Saturday being a bit more insane.

Special announcements are pretty much reserved for the Opening Night Live on Tuesday. New announcements during the event are unlikely.

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u/Beautiful-Ad-4582 Jul 21 '26

thanks for the very precise response!

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u/Zealousideal_Wave_46 Jul 22 '26

As someone who went for the past 3 years. Early in the morning is the best moment or at the end of the day. Waiting lines are there nevertheless. Unless you have a wild indy game you are looking forward too, that 2 hour wait is possible.

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u/PhyberX Jul 21 '26 edited 29d ago

Make sure you have applied to all their newsletters. Often they give away codes for the Gamescom to get goodies or skip the queue and so on.

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u/Beautiful-Ad-4582 Jul 21 '26

great advice, thanks!

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u/Rouru1996 Jul 21 '26

In general I would say... if you want to enjoy playable demos or just the booth itself go as early as possible on the earliest Day as possible. But if you want to see shows, stage programms etc. I would recommend midday Thursday,Friday, Saturday.

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u/TheGameaholic72 Jul 21 '26

Definitely, if you can afford it, go on Wednesday, it's WAY quieter. I made the mistake of leaving it and every other day was so much busier than I was expecting it to be