Pc Gamer Hardware Awards: The Best Gaming Keyboard Of 2025

Three fantastic keyboards from this year, but there can only be one winner.

Check out more of the year's best tech in our PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2025 coverage.

As a writer, I really do care about using a keyboard with great comfort and typing feel. But as gamer, I'd also like some of the best features for gaming, whether that's Hall effect switches for rapid trigger, extra macro keys for MMO gaming, or yes, even RGB to get that 1337 g4m3r aesthetic.

Thankfully, 2025 has really solidified the fact that we can somehow have our cake and eat it these days. Gaming keyboards left and right have started to offer a ton of gaming features and really great typing feel and build quality.

The topper is that many of the fantastic keyboards we're seeing popping up—the Gamakay x NaughShark NS68 on this list, the NuPhy Air60 HE, or the Lofree Flow 2, to name a few—are priced very well for what you're getting. That's especially surprising for overtly gaming-oriented keyboards like the NaughShark, given that historically you'd often have to essentially pay a gamer tax for extra features and build quality.

There are almost too many keyboards to choose from this year, but we've managed to narrow it down to just three nominees for the best gaming keyboard of the year.

Gamakay x NaughShark NS68This bad boy has slid right in to take the place of the Mountain Everest 60, which we used to frequently recommend as a lovely cheap keyboard, but which seems to have completely disappeared from retailers. The Gamakay is also a lovely keyboard for the price, and is actually available. Part of what makes this diminutively priced clacker so compelling is that we've seen it maintain a low price—even dropping to less than $40 during sales events—while packing in a bunch of very modern gaming features. We're talking Hall effect switches for rapid trigger, 8K polling, and even a carry strap. Its 68% size is also a nice sweet spot, as you still get those arrow keys and some nav keys. The simple fact is, it offers pretty much all the features you might want out of a gaming keyboard, and has somehow remained consistently cheap throughout 2025 since its launch.Read our full Gamakay x NaughShark NS68 review.

Be Quiet! Light MountBe Quiet! really did its name justice this year with the Light Mount, because it's seriously the quietest keyboard we've ever heard here in the PC Gamer hardware den. Our Jess still stands by it and uses it daily.That's thanks to its own silent tactile switches and

Source: PC Gamer