Decolonizing gaming is not only about including more participants from the Global South to increase diversity among gamers and game designers. It is also about overcoming limitations that a colonial mindset continues to hold with regard to mainstream gaming and game design. This contribution explores new opportunities that arise from a decolonial revision of key aspects of gaming: Enriching the dominant hero’s quest by including ambivalent trickster characters, replacing the logic of conquest, extraction and accumulation by exploring a logic of sharing, diversifying game environments by including ways of playful imagination and practice that are hitherto marginalized. In this process serious games play a particularly important role as they can have a decolonizing impact on gaming grounded in social science research on playfulness beyond “the West”.