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Write a ReviewOne of the best independent game retailers around. Whether you’re rolling D20s to explore hidden dungeons, fistfuls of D6s to fend off Orc hordes, or drawing just one more card, there’s something for everyone. The staff are all ludicrously …
If you like playing games, be it board games, card games or any type of games this is the place for you. They are a specialist store with a very extensive collection of games that you have probably never heard of, this is probably the only …
Closes before it’s meant to and most of the products, including the MTG packs, are overpriced. The changes to the stamp card also mean that you have to spend even more money than you did earlier, meaning that you can’t buy three packs, …
The staff are extremely knowledgable and friendly. They give great advice, rules guidance and recommendations. Generally, in the unlikely event they don’t have a game you’ve heard of, they can get it.
You can spend hours in Eclectic Games just browsing their range of board games, card games, models, and accessories. It’s tucked away in a side street off Broad street. Well worth a visit!
I’ve attended several Digimon prereleases here. The venue is good for hosting card games and board game events.
The Digimon players are a very welcoming and lovely bunch of people. The store …
Super friendly place! Have gotten some good quality dice sets from here.
Beeing a massive geek i love a board game, this shop doesn’t dissapoint. With its massive game selection from boardgames, TCG’s, D20 role playing systems and minitures for table top wargames it really does have it all. …
Fairly extensive collection of board games. Very friendly staff as well.
Great eclectic mix of games, generally more expensive than you can get online or elsewhere but have the quirkier more unusual stuff.
Would be good to have staff recommendations or a bit of insight into games the …
It’s a great independent game store in Reading with large stock.
Not cheap and whilst I would love to support local more I do sometimes struggle to justify paying the price difference on a budget.
My local game shop, and I would not go anywhere else! They stock an array of products, the staff are friendly and they hold many events. Why go anywhere else??
Very knowledgeable staff, wide range of products for many tastes, and a friendly safe area to play upstairs. I can rarely resist popping in when passing! The quarterly Magic the Gathering Pre Releases are always fun here.
So much on display, staff always have the answer, such a great shop!
Amazing friendly and super knowledgeable staff, incredible huge selection of board games, wargames, Role Playing Games, Puzzles, miniatures and a loyalty scheme all under one roof. I feel extremely fortunate to have eclectic games as my …
Great little store with helpful and friendly staff. Lots of collectible cards and accessories.
Been going here for over 10 years. Very knowledgeable staff who will help you find the right game, puzzle or other gift. This place caters for more than just the specialist hobby gamer, so venture in. Plenty of family games and if you ask, …
Absolutely brilliant shop. We visit often and have discovered some fantastic new games from here. Any time our friends are in town they always ask to visit too. The staff are so lovely, friendly, and have great knowledge about the products, there’s a great range, and the prices are really good too. Cannot recommend this place enough.
A large selection of boardgames and very helpful, knowledgeable staff. A real gem 💎 …
Hands down best boardgame shop in the UK. They are so knowledgeable and friendly you will want to stick around! Just attended their boardgame night and loved it, the owner was kind enough to teach us the game too!
The staff are amazing. They know their games, but are not afraid to say ‘not sure, let me find someone who knows’. Any questions, they can get an answer. Remember playing a game 30 years ago, where it’s like monopoly but had a Reading Town …
Love this little shop, so much to see and buy very helpful staff and always explain what it is I’m buying or could buy
Amazing place, lovely helpful people, everything you could want for rpg, tabletop, miniatures, painting or board games is there. Will definitely be going back there next week.
Great little local board game shop. Friendly and helpful staff. Outstanding array of stock.
A really lovely friendly shop with a fantastic diversity of board games, tcg, and minis. Very helpful and knowledgeable staff. A 10 min walk from Forbury retail park if you just want free parking to pop in and buy some games.
I love this shop! The amount of games they have is amazing!! The staff are so friendly and helpful!
I love this place, super friendly and helpful staff and a great community feel with lots of things going on. Games, card games and d&d merch it has in spades. I often walk in mesnig to have a browse and walk out with fifty quid in games and …
Lovely shop and very nice staff
Fleeting visit. Didn’t have time for a mooch around but the 2 members of staff were helpful and I was in and out quickly with what I wanted (for the kids of course!)
Absolutely one of the best things about Reading Town centre. One of the last true indenepent stores in town, it boasts a fantastic collection of board and card games as well as miniatures, paints, books for RPGs as well as accessories for …
This is my most favorite shop in the world!
They have an awesome array of games and accessories, and the staff are games enthusiasts that know their stuff, whom are super friendly and helpful.
Great store for a variety of board games and related paraphernalia. Staff are friendly and are happy to let you browse. Get a loyalty card if you go regularly. …
Had a lovely staff member recommend a game for 2, Ticket to Ride! We’ve really enjoyed it and been playing all evening – thank you & will definitely be back!
Not a very good selection of Pokemon products and the staff came across quite rude. Also worth noting they are one of the only shops, if not the only shop, that mask wearing is compulsory. I very much doubt I would visit again.
Great range of games to buy. Friendly knowledgeable staff. Large playing area with a huge library of games. Frequent events, ranging from tournaments, to teaching events, to casual play sessions. Numbers at gaming events are continuing to recover following the Pandemic, meaning that there are always new people to meet.
Absolutely outstanding game shop. My family visits there often. They have a very wide range of games and there is usually someone on hand who has played the game you are looking at and can advise on its suitability for your needs. They are …
A great store, providing access to a huge variety of board games, trading cards, RPG books, and the materials and components for tabletop games. The staff are friendly, and have been willing to help with any questions, and can recommend …
Staff are friendly and super knowledgeable. The store probably the largest selection of boardgames I’ve seen in any local games store ever, and whatever they don’t have they can order for you. …
Great customer service and great range of games. Have been many times with just a thought of “hmm, I should get a new board game”. Once you tell staff what you like playing they are good at recommending other games that you’d enjoy. …
Amazing store with a huge selection of games for all ages and type of gamer. The owners are always nice and will always be able to recommend you a game suited for you. I dont shop anywhere else.
Staff are highly passionate and informative and shop has a great range of games. If you are a newbie or experienced gamer they can help guide you towards your next purchase based on your preferences.
Nice experience prereleasing there. Staff are helpful in both resolving rulings issues and questions about different products. The atmosphere has been welcoming to everyone each time I have been and players generally are very nice there. …
Lovely store, great gaming space upstairs, lots of great games to choose from and owners and staff very knowledgeable
massive choice of games and a good selection of models and paints. Friendly staff, who definitely didn’t laugh when I rolled a D12, stating that if I got a perfect 20 I should get my purchase free… little did they know that I was testing …
Super helpful staff! They have a loyalty system where you can get money off after a certain number of purchases. Additionally they will order in games and expansion on the rare occasions that they don’t actually have one in stock. Also great place to try out new games. One of the best game shops in the area!
Excellent games shop with a massive range of stock catering for everyone from casual gamers and jigsaw enthusiasts to specific mainstream games. There are also lots of events held here and the staff are always friendly, welcoming and knowledgeable. Always worth a visit if your in the area.
Love this place. Staff are really helpful and make some great recommendations. Support your local games store, they need your custom!
Excellent selection, reasonable prices, knowledgeable staff. This is a capstone destination for us; we travel for an hour to come to reading specifically to come here. Highly recommend.
Really great selection of boardgames and traditional games (chess, checkers etc) as well as TCGs. Massive Upstairs gaming area fitted 50+ people for a tournament. Hot drinks, well situated near other shops and food places, multiple clean loos! Excellent shop.
Highly recommend this store. I attended a Friday night draft, travelling from a Wigan to do so. I was made very welcome by the lovely staff. A very positive experience overall and well worth the journey.
Great place to play games, with a large variety of events each week and monthly tournaments for competitive players. Daryl, Becky and the team are always ready to help find that game you are looking for, or suggest new games to try.
There are not enough stars in the rating system for this shop. Having won or been nominated for multiple Reading retail awards it seems the town agrees with me. Looking for a gift? Want to get into a new hobby? Been playing monopoly your …
Fantastic little shop. Staff could not have been more helpful, they dedicated so much energy into making us welcome, helping us browse games and helped set us up with some games to trial upstairs in the social gaming area. Will definitely be back and highly recommend
Everything I wanted and friendly staff
Excellent staff!
I was in a rush to find some PC components and stuck my head in here on a …
Great local games shop. They stock everything from cards and dice to RPG source books and board games. They have an upstairs room for playing the games that can be rented quite cheaply and they are open late. …
Excellent customer service from friendly, expert staff. Quality products at competitive prices. Spacious and welcoming gaming area upstairs that holds a variety of games evenings. This place really is a labour of love, cannot recommend it highly enough.
Great selection of board games, new staff member was fresh into the board game scene and was excited to share and take on recommendations. Would like to see more lcg stock.
A very friendly store with an excellent so l selection of boardgames, card games and table top role playing games. The staff and knowledgeable and friendly. Definitely recommend them.
A safe place for queer people.
Knowledgeable, personable staff, good board games, TTRPG, miniatures and paints. Happily covers those looking for gifts, to those established in the hobby already playing Tetris with their extensive library of board games.
Genuinely the best place in Berkshire for anything trading card or board game related. The owners and staff are the best and the product range is amazing. You will have a hard time finding a better place for all your nerdy needs.
Managed to get my hands on a copy of an Arkham Horror LCG mythos pack that was virtually impossible to find otherwise without being gouged by international sellers. Had a query and contacted their support, which was dealt with almost …
Love popping into this shop. A lot of the stuff here isnt in my usual sphere of interest which is even nicer as it promotes other potential hobbies. Staff are always so up for helping out even if it doesnt result in a sale as they know a happy visitor is most likely going to come back. And they are right!
This is an excellent board game shop with a very thorough collection and a friendly staff. …
I was a bit stuck for a new two player game and saw the offer of help from staff. Had a chat with Alex who gave me four good choices. Eventually I plumped for Paris: La Cité de la Lumière (which is great) Good selection of games, great staff and speedy online delivery. Highly recommended.
Simply the best board game shop there is. Very friendly staff who you can have a laugh with and willing to help you discover your next game to play
I was recommended this shop by a friend when I saw and commented on his board games collection… and I was not left disappointed.
I spent some time browsing the shop, finding a few of the games I was familiar …
I love that we have a local games shop, which also hosts games evening. It’s nice & casual and you can just turn up and use any of their games library. Only £3 per session. The staff are keen & very knowledgeable.
This place has a great selection of board and card games, shelves stocked high with unique and interesting product. There’s also some Warhammer stuff and paints available and regular gaming sessions are held upstairs. …
Strange smell of BO.
Edit: went last weekend (bank holiday weekend). …
Unresponsive and unhelpful. Unable or unwilling to answer even a simple question. …
Most adventurers seek treasure or fame,
This explorer sought to learn of a game.
So avoiding any old rouge or rapscally, …
Super helpful and knowledgable staff, doing their best in these strange times. Also, Eclectic is the only supplier of Vallejo acrylic model paint in Reading and most of Berkshire, so they get props for that alone 🤘🤘 …
I love this store. Though it usually ends with me spending more than I intended. The staff are always friendly and knowledgeable.
When they don’t know about something they will admit it and try and find out.
Nice selection, good space.
Went here and spent over £200. I got home and realised an expensive item had been scanned twice in error. I went back for a refund by card, waited over a week and no refund appeared on my account. I then went back for a cash refund and …
Excellent product knowledge by the owners, and the rest of the staff are all keen gamers, so you know you’re getting the best available recommendations and suggestions. Extremely friendly atmosphere and the additional play area makes for a good day out or evening as well.
A superbly stocked hobby shop with countless incredible unique gift ideas and intriguing board games that you would be hard pressed to find anywhere else. …
We visit here a lot and the team are always happy to help. The process are great and I love being able to support a local shop. Eclectic games is a wonderful asset to the Reading area community