Phoenix Gaming Lounge

★★★★★

“I’m not a regular but the times I have dropped in for a few hours were a great experience. It’s an incredibly welcoming, friendly atmosphere filled with people passionate about their hobbies - staff and customers/players alike. Josh and his staff are kind, helpful, and patient, even with someone like me who knows very little about TCG and tabletop games and plays very casually. I know people who have been going here for many years and they are passionate and dedicated to this community - one that would not exist without the hard work the owner, staff, volunteers, and players have put in to build and maintain. They do their best to prioritize and support their community despite the chaos and exponential growth TCGs and tabletop gaming have seen in the last few years. Highly recommend checking this place out.”

★★★★★

“This store will treat you like family if you come respectfully. Do that and youll have a truly fine place to play card games. They care about the players and as a result take measures to make sure product is sold to the PLAYERS. Your money is well spent here.”

★★★★★

“This place is a great environment to blow off some steam while enjoying games with others. They are reasonable with their prices on their products and in their vending machine they have 50 cent bottled waters. In this economy!?! First time in today but will definitely come back again!”

★★★

“A conflicted review. I wasn't a huge fan of the layout, as soon as you walk in you have a few options, to your right is a little shopping area, directly ahead of you is an open gaming area with tables/chairs, it appeared there was an event or something going on as there was a timer on one of the TVs counting down from 20 minutes. Finally to your left is a bunch of single cards from various trading card games, primarily focused on MTG and Pokémon. They had some others, but those were the primaries. The singles card selection is huge, quite a nice collection. I don't play but I do visit all the game stores in the valley, I'm a moderately detailed guy, I wasn't a huge fan of their prices on the cards themselves. I thought they had a pretty good selection of everything you'd need for cards though and storing them. I am conflicted because it looked like there was more product in the back area where everyone was playing but it seemed inconvenient to access. People seemed active in that room/area and it seemed like I would just be in the way if I decided to look over there. I did ask if I could take a couple pictures (permission granted), I only took pictures of the area on the right (from the entrance) since it was moderately busy. They do have snacks and drinks. I don't know if they charge you money to play on the tables or if it's free, the single employee it looked like was busy the entire time. It was kind of hard to tell who was who on the employee front. I read through the reviews of this establishment going back 5 years, I'd say overall people enjoy their experiences gaming here although they do seem to have some favoritism type pricing structure with who gets to purchase what at certain prices. I don't like the owner's responses to people who left him negative reviews, while detailed, they don't seem very friendly, I did not meet them in-person, just judging from their own review responses. Overall it looked like a great place to play MTG/Pokémon or other trading card games, that seemed to be their jam. There didn't appear to be much D&D or Warhammer going on.”