Board Games, PS5 and Pool in Bali (2026 Guide)
Some evenings don't want a beach club. Somebody isn't drinking, it's raining, the group has been together for five days and has run out of conversation — and what you need is a table with something on it. Bali has more of this than people realise, but it's split awkwardly across three kinds of venue that don't overlap. Here's the map, with fourteen places and the one detail that decides each of them: the closing time.
The problem with games in Bali
Board-game cafés close early. The two proper ones are excellent — real libraries, staff who explain the rules — and both shut at 9 PM. They're an afternoon or an early dinner, not a night.
PlayStation rentals are in Denpasar. The dedicated console places are genuinely good and genuinely cheap, but they sit in Denpasar and Renon, 30 to 60 minutes from Canggu or Seminyak depending on traffic, and they're rental rooms rather than bars — no alcohol, no evening in the usual sense.
Which leaves the bars. In the tourist strip, the venues that have both something to play and a night worth staying for are a short list. That's the first section below, and it's the one most people actually need.
Games and a real night out
IZZI Rooftop — Restaurant, Bar & Shisha Lounge ★ 4.8 Games are free
Our own place, so read it as disclosure. Two PS5s and a shelf of board games, both free to use — no hourly rate, no deposit, no booking a room. That's the practical difference from everything in the third section below: here the games sit inside a normal evening with a kitchen, a bar and shisha, rather than being the thing you paid for. Fifth floor on Jl. Batu Belig, open 2 PM to 4 AM with the kitchen until 2:30, open terrace plus an air-conditioned room with the same view, underground parking. The honest limit: two consoles means a queue if three groups want them at once on a Saturday, so come earlier if the PS5 is the plan.
Website & menu →HookahPlace Canggu
A Canggu lounge with a dedicated PS5 zone alongside the shisha and an Asian-Western menu, open 9 AM to 1 AM. Also listed on Grab, which is unrelated to the games but tells you something about how the place is run. The straightforward Canggu-side alternative if you're staying in Berawa or Batu Bolong and don't want to cross to Batu Belig.
Canggu Radio Station ★ 4.9
Mario Kart, karaoke, a private upstairs room and a hidden bookcase door — a bar that behaves like somebody's very well-appointed living room. Small review count but unusually detailed reviews, several describing large group nights. The best option here if you want the games and the room to belong to your group rather than being shared with the venue.
CoLo Sport Bar & Billiards ★ 4.7
On Sunset Road: proper billiards tables, well maintained, plus a DJ, sports screens and a VIP room with its own table and karaoke. Open until 3 AM most nights and 4 AM Friday and Saturday, which makes it the latest-closing pool table in this guide. Reviewers consistently rate the table condition and the staff; it's a sports bar first, so don't expect quiet.
Cowboy Bali ★ 4.8
A full Western-themed bar off Jl. Kunti with pool, karaoke, live country music and happy-hour cocktails that reviewers rate well above the price. Several reviews describe 40th-birthday nights here, which is a decent signal for how it handles groups. Cheap by Seminyak standards and unusually committed to its own theme.
Friends Bar ★ 4.9
Berawa: darts, a pool table, happy hour and a 4.9 rating built almost entirely on staff. No minimum spend, no dress code, no pretence. The cheapest way in this guide to park a group around a game for four hours. Closes at midnight on weekdays and 3 AM Friday and Saturday.
The Goat Central ★ 4.9
Over five thousand reviews at 4.9 — the highest-volume high rating in this guide. An Australian-style pub on Jl. Raya Seminyak with all-you-can-eat steak and wings, sports on the screens, live music and karaoke later. Not a games venue in the strict sense, but if the group's plan is "eat a lot and watch the match", this is the answer.
Galaxy Sports Bar ★ 4.6
Dhyana Pura, Seminyak: a straightforward modern sports pub with all the fixtures on, generous portions at fair prices and famously cold Bintang buckets. The reliable default when the only requirement is a screen showing the right game and a table to sit at.
Zero4 Karaoke ★ 4.5
Private karaoke rooms on Dewi Sri, Japanese concept, open until 5 AM — the latest closing time anywhere in this guide. The per-person free-flow packages with unlimited drinks and snacks across several hours are priced far below anything comparable. Rooms in several sizes, food to the room. Honest notes: cleanliness comes up in a minority of reviews, and you can't bring your own drinks.
Proper board-game cafés
Downtime Cafe ★ 4.7
The serious one. A large, well-kept board-game library in Kerobokan with a gamemaster who explains the rules — which is the part that makes it work for a group where half the people have never played anything. Reviewers mention spending hours here on Jaipur, Codenames, 7 Wonders and Flip 7. The food is genuinely good rather than an afterthought, and there's a big backyard most people miss. Games are rented rather than free. Closes at 9 PM.
Level Up ★ 4.6
Drupadi, Seminyak: a small café where you can both play and buy board games, with coffee, smoothies and bakery items. Reviewers single out the no-hidden-fees pricing — no service charge, no tax surprise — which in Bali is worth flagging. The catch is that the food menu is thinner than Google's photos suggest; come for the games and the coffee.
PlayStation rentals
These are rooms you rent by the hour with a console and a screen, not bars. No alcohol, and the drive from Canggu or Seminyak is 30 to 60 minutes depending on traffic. Worth it if gaming is the actual plan for the afternoon; not worth it as one part of an evening.
Axl's Arena ★ 4.9
Denpasar Timur, and the most interesting of the rentals: alongside the consoles there's a sim-racing rig, which is the one thing on this list you genuinely can't get anywhere else on the island. Food on site is rated well. Open to midnight, and to 2 AM Friday and Saturday.
Dewah Game House ★ 5.0
A perfect rating on a solid review count. Console rooms in Denpasar set up as much for watching films as for gaming — the recurring word in reviews is "cozy". Open to 1 AM, which is late for this category. Reviewers specifically praise that billing runs honestly with no TV timer cutting you off.
Play Days ★ 5.0
Denpasar Selatan, and the family-shaped one: Nintendo alongside PlayStation, a no-smoking room, colourful rooms, and staff who will explain a game to someone who has never held a controller. The pick if there are children in the group. Parking is limited — come by scooter.
Quick answers
Where can you play board games in Bali?
Downtime Cafe in Kerobokan has the biggest library and a gamemaster who explains rules, and Level Up in Seminyak lets you play or buy. Both close at 9 PM. For games later in the evening, you need a bar that keeps them — IZZI in Batu Belig has board games and two PS5s free to use until 4 AM.
Where can you play PS5 in Bali?
Dedicated rental rooms are clustered in Denpasar and Renon — Axl's Arena, Dewah Game House and Play Days among them, all cheap and rated highly, but 30 to 60 minutes from the tourist strip and without alcohol. In Canggu and Kerobokan, IZZI and HookahPlace both have consoles inside a normal bar.
Is there anywhere in Bali with games that stays open late?
Yes, but not many. Karaoke rooms on Dewi Sri run to 5 AM, CoLo's billiards tables to 3–4 AM, and IZZI's PS5s and board games to 4 AM. Everything in the board-game café category closes at nine.
What can a group do in Bali when it rains?
This whole guide, essentially — it's the indoor answer to a wet evening. Board-game cafés in the afternoon, then a bar with pool, consoles or karaoke after nine. Venues with an air-conditioned indoor room rather than only an open terrace matter more than usual on those nights.
Do venues charge for board games and consoles in Bali?
It varies and it's worth asking. Board-game cafés rent games by the session, and PlayStation places charge by the hour — that's their whole business. Bars that keep games as an amenity, IZZI included, generally don't charge for them at all.
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IZZI Rooftop — Restaurant, Bar & Shisha Lounge · Google Maps · @izzi_bali · WhatsApp · JL. BATU BELIG NO.38, FLOOR 5 · OPEN DAILY 2 PM–4 AM
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