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Game mod­els dif­fer from office chairs pri­mar­i­ly in ergonom­ics. Almost all of them are nec­es­sar­i­ly equipped with a head­rest, and also have a so-called lum­bar cush­ion. Game ses­sions are usu­al­ly short­er than work ses­sions, but there is often sim­ply no time and oppor­tu­ni­ty to swing or get up to warm up. So, the max­i­mum back sup­port and the shape clos­est to the anatom­i­cal shape are manda­to­ry attrib­ut­es of almost any spe­cial­ized gam­ing chair.

Such mod­els are in demand not only among pro­fes­sion­al gamers, but also among ama­teurs for whom PC games are just a hob­by and they want to get the most out of them and keep their back healthy.

We stud­ied the opin­ions of buy­ers, the char­ac­ter­is­tics of the goods offered and cor­re­lat­ed afford­able prices with them. From the results obtained, we came up with the fol­low­ing rank­ing of the best gam­ing chairs for today.

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Editor’s Choice

DXRacer Formula OH/FD99

This gam­ing chair can already be clas­si­fied as pre­mi­um. It is com­plet­ed with lum­bar and neck sup­ports (in the form of pil­lows). The mod­el can be ful­ly cus­tomized, and the anatom­i­cal shape will allow your back to eas­i­ly cope with the dif­fi­cul­ties of a gamer’s every­day life. The neck sec­tion is equipped with two ven­ti­la­tion holes, how­ev­er, many buy­ers note that the back still sweats, espe­cial­ly in hot weath­er. There are no com­plaints about the assem­bly — noth­ing plays, does not creak, every­thing works as it should work.

Characteristics

Leather	arti­fi­cial
With­stand weight	up to 120 kg
Head­rest	there is
Arm­rest	there is
Adjust­ment	all parts of the chair
Oth­er	gas lift, swing mech­a­nism, lum­bar sup­port

Pros and cons

Remov­able lum­bar sup­port and neck sup­port, rein­forced design, you can adjust every­thing you want

The chair can be hot, rel­a­tive­ly high price

Top 17 rating according to KP

1 Woodville Kano

The gam­ing chair is equipped with a swing mech­a­nism and two pil­lows — for the lum­bar and cer­vi­cal. Pil­lows will help you reduce the load on your back, and on the back of this mod­el you can lean back 180 degrees. At the same time, the angle of incli­na­tion of the back­rest can be adjust­ed using the latch in the chair.

The arm­rests can be adjust­ed in angles and height, which allows them to be adjust­ed to any incli­na­tion of the chair. The icing on the cake is the foot­stool.

If you choose fur­ni­ture and appli­ances by col­or, then Woodville Kano is a good choice, as it comes in three col­ors: black with white, black with blue, and black with red. The uphol­stery is made of eco-leather.

The main advan­tage of the cho­sen mod­el is that the uphol­stery on the seat and back is made of mesh fab­ric, thanks to which your skin will breathe, and in hot weath­er you will not stick to it. Do you have pets? This gam­ing chair will be com­plete­ly safe, because your pet will have it “out of the claws”.

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2.ThunderX3 EC3

The ThunderX3 EC3 gam­ing chair has sev­er­al col­or options, a styl­ish and rather aggres­sive min­i­mal­ist design. It can be attrib­uted to the mid­dle price seg­ment, while it boasts a func­tion that is typ­i­cal for more expen­sive mod­els — you can adjust the rigid­i­ty of the rock­ing mech­a­nism. This is espe­cial­ly impor­tant when you spend a lot of time sit­ting, with­out the oppor­tu­ni­ty to tear your­self away from the mon­i­tor. It is also worth not­ing that you can recline 180 degrees on it — almost lie down, which will allow you to relax and unwind even dur­ing the most intense skat­ing rink.

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3. Defender Pilot

This gam­ing chair has sev­er­al impor­tant advan­tages. The main ones are uphol­stered soft arm­rests and a deep seat, thanks to which max­i­mum com­fort is achieved. Anoth­er nice bonus is the pres­ence of a footrest and two pil­lows for the cer­vi­cal and lum­bar.

The chair is equipped with a swing mech­a­nism, and the back­rest can recline 135 degrees. The frame mate­r­i­al is made of met­al, which means that the chair will last you not a year or two. The uphol­stery mate­r­i­al is com­plete­ly made of eco-leather, while there is no breath­able mesh on top. Such mate­r­i­al is depen­dent on weath­er con­di­tions, in hot weath­er you will sweat, in cold weath­er you will freeze. But on the oth­er hand, you can eas­i­ly get rid of dirt or spilled soda with just a wave of a rag.

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4. Everprof Lotus S11

This mod­el has a swing mech­a­nism and the abil­i­ty to fix its rigid­i­ty. Comes with head and lum­bar cush­ions that are easy to adjust and detach. The chair has a very attrac­tive design, but there is only one col­or option — red and black with white trim. Rub­ber­ized soft and high-qual­i­ty wheels do not make noise and do not scratch the par­quet.

But be care­ful, if you are over­weight, then this mod­el may not suit you due to the pres­ence of nar­row lat­er­al sup­ports. This chair han­dles spilled drinks with easy clean­ing, because it’s made of leatherette. How­ev­er, along with this, due to the mate­r­i­al cho­sen, you may encounter a num­ber of prob­lems. In the heat, such mate­r­i­al will stick to the body. If you have pets, they will make a scratch­ing post out of it. In addi­tion, over time, leatherette begins to crum­ble at all.

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5. ASUS ROG Chariot Core Gaming Chair

Pre­mi­um gam­ing chair from giant Asus. ROG is their brand line, which fea­tures the com­pa­ny’s best and most expen­sive prod­ucts. The design of the brand­ed line of pre­mi­um prod­ucts is, as always, on top. The col­or palette, the angles of the cuts and the shape of the parts — it looks chic. You can adjust any­thing on this chair, and for increased com­fort it is equipped with a lum­bar pil­low with a mem­o­ry effect. Its swing mech­a­nism is spe­cif­ic — only the back is mov­able. If you are not going to save mon­ey, then this is a great option from a rep­utable top brand.

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6ZONE 51 Gravity

Mod­el with an ortho­pe­dic design, which has a pos­i­tive effect on the health of the back for a long stay at the com­put­er. It has a swing mech­a­nism, and the back­rest can recline up to 180 degrees.

The chair does not creak even after sev­er­al years of oper­a­tion. The back of the chair is wide, the mate­r­i­al and seams are of high qual­i­ty. The uphol­stery has eco-leather inserts, not leatherette. The advan­tage of eco-leather is easy clean­ing, but at the same time this mate­r­i­al is much stronger than leatherette, and does not crum­ble after a long time of use.

The frame mate­r­i­al is made of durable met­al. Also avail­able in a wide vari­ety of designs — as many as five col­ors.

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7. Everprof Forsage gaming

Well made bud­get chair. But for the build qual­i­ty and low price, I had to pay with func­tion­al­i­ty. In this mod­el, there are prac­ti­cal­ly no adjust­ments, only the land­ing height. There is no sep­a­rate head­rest, its role is played by an elon­gat­ed back, but there are holes for ven­ti­la­tion. The design is not bad, con­sid­er­ing the price, but com­pared to more expen­sive com­peti­tors, the chair looks frankly cheap.

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Gam­ing lap­tops

Top hard­ware and top soft­ware for the most demand­ing games

8.ThunderX3 TC3

This mod­el has a swing mech­a­nism. The back of the chair can recline all 180 degrees, but the mod­el does not have the abil­i­ty to fix the posi­tion of the back.

The chair has back sup­port and a seat. Usu­al­ly, the pres­ence of sup­ports can be the main draw­back of the chair, because due to the small width, there are many restric­tions on the physique to its own­er. But in this case, they are designed in such a way that they do not restrict the free­dom of move­ment for the legs and pinch the body.

The mate­r­i­al of the cross is made of soft and durable nylon. It is resis­tant to high tem­per­a­tures, while being less prone to mechan­i­cal dam­age and cor­ro­sion.

The main fea­ture of the chair is a large selec­tion of col­ors: there are mul­ti-col­or mod­els, and there are also plain ones.

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9. DXRacer Drifting OH/DJ133

This gam­ing chair from the high price seg­ment is made of eco-leather and looks sol­id. Look­ing at it, one can imag­ine that the big boss from Amer­i­can films sits in it. With all this, it pro­vides for the con­fig­u­ra­tion of some nodes, thanks to which you can cus­tomize it for your­self. Strange­ly, the claimed max­i­mum weight it can sup­port is 113 kg, while the gold stan­dard of the mar­ket is 120 kg. Per­haps this is due to the region­al weight mea­sures of the man­u­fac­tur­ing coun­try. The lack of an adjustable head­rest also rais­es ques­tions. The tight style may not appeal to every gamer, and fit adjust­ment is lim­it­ed.

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10. Chairman GAME 16

The uphol­stery of the chair is made of tex­tile and eco-leather, thanks to which the chair has a pre­sentable appear­ance that will last for long-term use. The mod­el has uphol­stered soft arm­rests, which will pro­vide com­fort to your elbows. The rub­ber­ized wheels will allow you to move qui­et­ly on the chair and will not spoil the floor.

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The chair has eight col­or options: the most famous are white-orange and black-blue. The cross, how­ev­er, is made of plas­tic. For this rea­son, with inac­cu­rate use or a load of the seat more than the allow­able 120 kg, it will crack, and may even break. It is worth pay­ing atten­tion to the frame of the chair, for which not the most reli­able mate­ri­als made of plas­tic and ply­wood were used.

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11. AKRACING Premium

Gam­ing chair from the high price seg­ment. The appear­ance of the mod­el on the “C grade”. If you are not told about the gam­ing pur­pose of the chair, then you are unlike­ly to guess what is in front of you. Giv­en its cost, there is not enough adjust­ment for the angle of incli­na­tion of the arm­rests and the head­rest, which is fixed in the chair. The ergonom­ics of the chair also rais­es ques­tions. It is stat­ed that it can with­stand up to 150 kg, while the seat is quite nar­row, and the sides are rigid. The min­i­mum seat­ing height is 50 cm, which imme­di­ate­ly makes the chair not the most obvi­ous choice for short gamers.

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12. COUGAR Rampart

This mod­el uses a thick rub­ber coat­ing as a mate­r­i­al for the arm­rests, which is much stronger and soft­er than plas­tic arm­rests. If you are obese, then you are the main con­tender for the pur­chase. And all because this chair has the abil­i­ty to adjust the arm­rests not only in height and angles, but also in the width between them.

The uphol­stery of the chair is made of tex­tile and leatherette. Tex­tiles will be an excel­lent heat fight­er for you. How­ev­er, leatherette inserts may crack after a while. The wheels of the chair are rub­ber­ized, so that when mov­ing along the floor, the struc­ture will not scratch it and make noise. The chair is avail­able in two ver­sions: com­plete­ly black and black with orange.

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13. AeroCool AERO 2 Alpha

The main fea­ture of this gam­ing chair is the abil­i­ty to with­stand heavy weights up to 150 kg. The base of the chair is made of hard plas­tic. How­ev­er, the depress­ing fac­tor is the pres­ence of props. This means that the chair must be checked for con­ve­nience when buy­ing, since with a dense physique it may not suit you because of this. Sup­ports are not a rea­son to refuse a pur­chase with an obese physique, because the seat of the chair is quite wide, and the back­rest dif­fers in width and height. Buy­er with high growth and medi­um build, this chair will fit.

The uphol­stery of the chair is made pri­mar­i­ly of tex­tiles with eco-leather inserts. Of course, it is dif­fi­cult to wash stains from fab­ric. But at the same time, you will avoid a lot of trou­bles that can arise when using leatherette and only eco-leather.

The chair has a nice sporty design. Avail­able in sev­er­al col­ors: full black chair, black and red, and black and blue. There are addi­tion­al options, but they peri­od­i­cal­ly appear on sale as part of lim­it­ed series.

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14. Bureaucrat Knight N1 Fabric

This is a soft one-col­or arm­chair, made in var­i­ous col­or palettes (pink, black, gray, beige). The uphol­stery is com­plete­ly made of tex­tile, which makes the chair unique in its kind, as it is rare to use a ful­ly tex­tile mate­r­i­al. The back of the chair can recline up to 150 degrees and be fixed in a dif­fer­ent posi­tion that is com­fort­able for the buy­er.

When order­ing this mod­el, you should make sure in advance whether the chair is right for you, since the neck pil­low is attached only to the upper part of the high back and serves as a restric­tion for peo­ple of short stature. The chair is quite wide, can with­stand weight up to 150 kg and is suit­able for a buy­er with a heavy build, even despite the pres­ence of props.

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15. Zombie DRIVER

The chair has a swing mech­a­nism, and the back can recline, but only with the seat. The mod­el has a nice design and many col­or options. How­ev­er, it should be not­ed that the chair is uphol­stered in leatherette, because of which it can quick­ly be demol­ished and come into an unpre­sentable look.

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If you are look­ing for a chair for your child or you are small in stature and physique, then this chair is just for you. For peo­ple with tall stature, broad shoul­ders, or a large physique, the chair will sim­ply be small.

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16. A4Tech X7 GG-1100

Inex­pen­sive chair made of tex­tiles and eco-leather with a wide range of func­tions that only expen­sive gam­ing chairs have. There is a syn­chro­nous swing mech­a­nism, and the abil­i­ty to fix the swing stiff­ness, as well as the back­rest in any con­ve­nient posi­tion. There are two soft and dense pil­lows — lum­bar and cer­vi­cal.

The frame is made of durable met­al. But the cross, how­ev­er, was saved, it is made of plas­tic, which requires care­ful oper­a­tion. The mod­el does not shine with a col­or vari­ety, there is only one col­or option — black and blue. Over­all, a rel­a­tive­ly robust design with easy assem­bly. How­ev­er, not all func­tions work as well as we would like.

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Leaders of the Past

1.ThunderX3 YC3

Func­tion­al chair at the junc­tion of the mid­dle and high price seg­ments. It dif­fers from its com­peti­tors by its well-thought-out anatom­i­cal shape and a cun­ning ven­ti­la­tion sys­tem. The gam­ing chair comes with a brand­ed lum­bar pil­low. The mod­el is avail­able in sev­er­al col­ors. It is worth not­ing that despite the flex­i­ble con­fig­u­ra­tion, due to its fea­tures, it may not be suit­able. Anoth­er impor­tant fea­ture of this chair is the max­i­mum weight, which is 150 kg. That’s 30kg above the mar­ket aver­age and could be a great entry for the mas­sive gamer.

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2. DXRacer Special Edition OH/RE21/NAVI

A pre­mi­um gam­ing chair, it’s a great choice for the pro­fes­sion­al gamer, but for the aver­age gamer, it might be overkill. The set includes lum­bar and neck pil­lows, their height is adjustable. The fine adjust­ment of the chair and high-qual­i­ty padding from spe­cial foam will allow you to feel max­i­mum com­fort dur­ing your gam­ing ses­sion. The cast­ers allow the gam­ing chair to move gen­tly, smooth­ly and qui­et­ly. It is rather not a piece of fur­ni­ture, but a spe­cial­ized sports equip­ment. Its only draw­back is the high cost and com­plex­i­ty of set­up and oper­a­tion.

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How to choose a gaming chair

What should be the first thing to check before plac­ing an order with the select­ed chair?

Individual adjustment

The first thing you should pay atten­tion to is the pos­si­bil­i­ty of indi­vid­ual adjust­ment. This is all the more impor­tant if you order a chair with­out ever test­ing the mod­el live. Adjust­ment of chair han­dles in height, width and angles; reclin­ing back­rest with fix­a­tion and adjustable pil­lows — ide­al­ly, all this should be present.

Side support problem

Anoth­er impor­tant point is the lat­er­al sup­port. They are carved on the sides of the wall on the seat and back. They are often made in gam­ing chairs for ortho­pe­dic pur­pos­es. How­ev­er, more often than not, sup­ports can, on the con­trary, inter­fere with your com­fort, restrict­ing the move­ment of your legs or not com­ing up on your back. Lat­er­al sup­ports are not some­thing that can be adjust­ed. In the absence of lat­er­al sup­ports, you are more like­ly to find a suit­able chair. If avail­able, you should care­ful­ly check how wide the seat of the chair and the back are, whether they will press due to an ill-con­ceived design and check with your feel­ings.

Back height and seat width

From the prob­lem of lat­er­al sup­ports, anoth­er one fol­lows — the height of the back and the width of the seat, which, even with­out lat­er­al sup­ports, can become an ene­my to your com­fort. So, land­ing in a chair should be free. You should pay atten­tion to how opti­mal for you the width of the seat of the select­ed chair and the dis­tance of the arm­rests from each oth­er. The height of the back­rest and head­rest attach­ment must match your height.

upholstery materials

Usu­al­ly, leatherette, eco-leather, tex­tiles and mesh fab­ric are used as uphol­stery mate­r­i­al for gam­ing chairs. Let’s take a look at what fea­tures they have.

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In case of leatherette and eco-leather the main advan­tages will be a pre­sentable appear­ance of the chair and easy clean­ing, because it is impos­si­ble to plant a stain on such an arm­chair. How­ev­er, with this choice, you run the risk of encoun­ter­ing many dis­ad­van­tages. This mate­r­i­al gets very hot in the sun. Your skin in such a chair will not breathe, which is why you will con­stant­ly stick to it, and in hot weath­er you will also sweat. If you have ani­mals in your house, then you may have the addi­tion­al prob­lem of turn­ing a beau­ti­ful chair into a scratch­ing post.

In addi­tion, leatherette notice­ably los­es to eco-leather. Leatherette is not durable and begins to dete­ri­o­rate after a year of use, which can­not be said about eco-leather. It can be safe­ly used for more than 5 years, while the appear­ance and qual­i­ty will remain unchanged.

Tex­tile saves us from the trou­bles of a leather chair, but at the same time deliv­ers new ones. A tex­tile chair is dif­fi­cult to clean and easy to stain. In addi­tion, it will not be as soft as when choos­ing the same skin.

Anoth­er option is mesh fab­ric. Mesh fab­ric is con­sid­ered the most suc­cess­ful choice and even has a sec­ond name — “breath­able fab­ric”. It eas­i­ly pass­es mois­ture, thanks to which it retains com­fort in hot and, con­verse­ly, cool weath­er. At the same time, stains do not remain on such fab­ric. How­ev­er, this mate­r­i­al has a very unfor­tu­nate draw­back — dif­fi­cult clean­ing. The fact is that dirt gets stuck in the mesh of the fab­ric. For this rea­son, they can­not sim­ply be brushed off; a vac­u­um clean­er is need­ed.

Design reliability

You should pay atten­tion to what the cross (low­er part of the chair) and the frame are made of. The cross­piece for gam­ing chairs is usu­al­ly made of met­al, nylon, plas­tic and alu­minum.

Plas­tic — the most unfor­tu­nate option when choos­ing a chair. Despite the very light weight and its cheap­ness, such mate­r­i­al is very frag­ile and breaks eas­i­ly even under not par­tic­u­lar­ly strong loads.

Alu­minum the cross­piece has a pre­sentable appear­ance, is able to with­stand a lot of weight, while remain­ing no less light. But less reli­able than the same steel and dete­ri­o­rate quick­ly.

Cross­piece from become can with­stand heavy loads and last a long time. How­ev­er, it is very heavy and if han­dled care­less­ly, scratch­es will remain on the sur­face, which will affect the appear­ance.

Nylon the cross­piece with­stands less loads than steel. But it is no less durable, it also serves for a long time, while it is much lighter than a met­al cross.

If we talk about the frame, then gam­ing chairs usu­al­ly use either met­al or ply­wood.

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met­al struc­ture — the best solu­tion. It is reli­able, with­stands heavy loads and lasts a long time. Over time, of course, it is sub­ject to mechan­i­cal break­downs. How­ev­er, it is the most durable mate­r­i­al of all pos­si­ble.

You can’t say that about ply­wood. The only advan­tage of such a frame is its cheap­ness. It can be quite durable, but under heavy loads and after some time it will begin to creak. Add to this the lack of resis­tance to mois­ture, due to which the chair can quick­ly become unus­able and break.