Arcade games, trading cards, DND, LARP – get ready to play!
We’ve got all of your favorite gaming at METROCON – whether you’re a dice gremlin or live to press buttons, you’re always a few feet away from an incredible gaming experience. Learn more about our incredible 10,000+ sq ft METROcade, our catered board game and tabletop selection powered by Critical Hit Games, or our immersive Mythic Adventures LARP dungeon below!
The all-new and improved METROcade experience is returning for 2025 with MORE consoles, MORE arcades, MORE space, and MORE games!! The METROcade is in Ballroom C of the convention center – we’re turning that room into a 10,000+ SQUARE FOOT ARCADE for the entire weekend! We’ve got console games from the US and Japan, providing PS4/5, Xbox One/X, and Nintendo Switch plus much more previous generations and retro set-ups alongside arcade cabinets, rhythm games, and a ton more. Take a break from the hustle of the convention hallways while you enjoy the games you know and love, or immerse yourself in the foreign world of import games and find out what’s so “Must Have” about the newest releases on the other side of the Pacific!
Featured systems/games this year in the METROCADE: OVER 60+ console set-ups including Nintendo Switch and PS5, as well as over twenty-five authentic domestic and imported arcade cabinets on free-play all weekend long!
We encourage folks to Bring Your Own Controller (BYOC) – if you have a fight stick, controller, pad, or whatever that you prefer to play on, bring it! Not only is more hygienic, but it helps us ensure that stuff doesn’t go missing! We’ll have a limited number of controllers available for checkout, so don’t worry if you want to try out a game you don’t have a controller for!
Street Fighter 6
Tekken 8
Left 4 Dead 2
Super Smash Bros.
Mario Kart
Guilty Gear: Strive
+ tons more across over 60+ Playstation/Switch set-ups, and retro console/PC set-ups!
Tournament Schedule/Line-up is TBD – check back soon, and join our Discord for more METROcade tournament announcements!
Try your hand at a curated set of challenges including time trials, high score contests, and unique gaming tests of skill that will challenge even the most hardcore veterans. Win prizes for getting on the leaderboard for set time periods, and the top winners for each challenge will get even BIGGER prizes at the end of the weekend! Stop by the METROcade to learn more – game challenges rotate all weekend long!
We are excited to have Critical Hit Games return to provide free-play tabletop, board, and card gaming during METROCON 2025!
Come enjoy hosted, free-play Tabletop Gaming in Room 114-116 on the first floor ALL WEEKEND LONG!
A local game store, CHG will have a selection of the store’s Open-Play Board Game Library for your enjoyment. Volunteers will be on hand to help you learn and play games. Demos for Warhammer 40K 10th Edition and Star Wars Shatterpoint miniature games will be available.
Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition Learn to Play scenarios and Adventurers League modules will also be back with even more sessions planned!
The store will be vending this year so a selection of inventory will be on hand for purchase.
METROCON wants you to get your LARP on!
All three days of METROCON, we will have a Live-Action Role Playing dungeon for you to slay monsters, solve puzzles, avoid traps, and more!
The METROCON LARP Dungeon is sponsored and put on by Mythic Adventures LARP – you can learn more about Mythic Adventures by visiting their Facebook Group!
Get a group of your friends together and get ready to slay some monsters! The METROCON LARP Dungeon is included with your METROCON pass (single day OR weekend), and is an awesome interactive experience for the whole family! The Mythic Adventures LARP Dungeon is located in Ballroom B of the Tampa Convention Center – sign-ups for dungeon runs are located just outside the room in the main hallway.
While this is an immersive LARP-style event, you don’t need to be wearing a costume to play! If you join Mythic Adventures and head to their events throughout the year, you’ll get to create your own character and costume, but for this dungeon crawl, it’s much more casual.
Expect to be encountered with monsters, swinging LARP-safe foam weapons, and casting spells and abilities in the dungeon! Can you make it out alive?? There might even be a prize if you can!
The dungeon will be run in shifts to accommodate as many players as possible. Please see the booth outside of Ballroom B and register yourself (or your group!) for a time slot. Time slots fill up quickly, so make sure to get registered early and be there on time! Dungeon crawls take typically around 30 to 45 minutes per session. We do kindly ask that after participating once, make sure that other folks get to participate – if there are open sessions as the weekend progresses feel free to sign up, or consider joining as a single-player and filling in a group’s missing link!
Please be advised – the LARP Dungeon can include dark areas, flashing lights, intense sounds, physical activity, and more – this event could be considered something like a haunted house, where you have a chance to win – if you require special accommodations to participate, please see the Mythic Adventures staff at the event, and they will do their best to accommodate runs mixed into the schedule where certain effects are excluded.
If you have any questions about the LARP Dungeon at METROCON, please feel free to contact Mythic Adventures LARP on Facebook at the link above!