The entry-level range will enable those on a budget to afford a gaming chair worthy of the name, without compromising on comfort.
This range is particularly suited to occasional gamers.
If you tend to play for hours on end, I can only give you my best advice: consider upgrading.
On the other hand, if you only play a few hours a day on your computer or console, or even just do homework or work for a while, these chairs will do just fine – they’ve been specially designed for this type of use.
Mid-range gaming chairs are ideal for gamers who spend many hours a day on their computers, consoles or other devices.
They’re much more ergonomic than entry-level gaming chairs, and also much more comfortable.
In themselves, they’re also suitable for those who just want to work on their computer while enjoying the comfort of a good chair.
When it comes to features and options, you’ll also have a lot more choice.
I think this is the range that will delight and please the greatest number of hardcore gamers.
These chairs have everything you need, without all the sometimes unnecessary sophistication of top-of-the-range models.
Basically, you get what you pay for, and that’s where the best value for money lies.
Top-of-the-range gaming chairs are ideal for hardcore gamers.
Are you a gamer at heart, and spend most of your days sitting at your computer or console?
Then at least ONE of these gaming chairs is bound to catch your eye.
Here we’re really talking about the ultimate in quality, with a whole range of adjustments to suit your body type, super-comfort and quality foam.
The design is well thought-out and the materials used are generally particularly good. In any case, this is only the crème de la crème, the top of the range.
I only rank the top of the top here.
The gaming chair is an essential part of your set-up.
We’re often tempted to spend a lot of money on the configuration, i.e. the mouse, keyboard, graphics card and processor, and totally forget the vital importance of a good gaming chair.
And yet, if a good configuration allows you to play most games with top image quality and a high FPS count, a gaming chair allows you to play longer and better (and above all, more comfortably)!
It’s said that you have to look after your frame, but in this case you’d be better off with a good one!
What’s more, the consequences of a poor choice of chair (or lack of a quality chair altogether) are often serious.
Back problems are unforgiving, and they don’t just happen – they creep up on you before you know it.
However, the real problem with the internet and even stores is that there’s so much to choose from, it’s hard to find your way around.
Especially as it seems that chair manufacturers don’t really make an effort to make their offer “intelligible”…
You’ll end up with words like “high-resilience foam” whose meaning you don’t necessarily know, unless you’ve done some in-depth research beforehand…
The same goes for the size of chairs: except that some chairs are reputed to be designed “especially for tall people”, most simply give the dimensions.
When you don’t know much about chairs (not everyone has a measuring tape in their head), it’s hard to know whether the chair will fit you in terms of dimensions.
There are a lot of things to know and check before choosing the right gaming chair, and I hope I can be of some help.
Finally, there’s more to choosing the right gaming chair: although it may seem obvious, why pay so much attention to its quality?
After all, isn’t it just for sitting on?
So why choose the right gaming chair?
The answer is quite simple: it’s where you’ll be spending most of your day, so you might as well be comfortable and avoid back pain by taking good care of your back!
It’s certainly one of the best investments you can make as a gamer.
Since you sit for most of the day, guess what’s the best way to use your money for your comfort?
Yes, with a good gaming chair!
In fact, gamers are among the first to suffer from back problems, often as a result of long hours of gaming while sitting on a poor-quality chair.
I paid the price myself, thinking that a chair was nothing more than… than a chair.
And so I settled for a commonplace chair with no particular functionality and no comfort at all.
To tell you the truth, I used to play with a garden chair, then a lounge chair…
And no matter what I did – cushions, various positions – nothing could change my back pain.
In fact, no matter which chair I used, the result was usually the same.
I’d be slumped over, sitting awkwardly, and after a few hours my back would hurt like hell for the whole day, the whole night, and then usually go away in the morning.
But how can you be rested and feel good when you’ve had a bad night because your back hurt?
So you could even say that it’s likely that, over time, having a bad chair degrades your performance, and not just in-game, but also in everyday life, even if you don’t notice it right away.
What’s more, as I went back to playing, it came back quite quickly and I was stuck in this vicious circle.
I’d bought a few gaming chairs, but I was disappointed, and I’ll tell you exactly why in the rest of this article.
Hang on to your chair, because I’m pretty straightforward.
However, if there’s one thing I should note, it’s that the change was really consequential when I started looking into “why a chair is good quality” and “why a chair is bad quality”.
That’s when I was able to compare different chairs and see over time what made a chair good or bad.
And above all, what was that little “trick” that would make all the difference.
I really hope I can help you with my comparison of gaming chairs.
So I spent several weeks, if not months, comparing gaming chairs on my own before opening this site and bringing you this comparison.
I figured that after spending so much time researching, I might as well share it with others.
If there’s only one thing to take away from all this, it’s that the quality of your gaming chair is what determines whether or not you’re going to have a good time during your gaming sessions.
That’s why choosing the right one is so important.
It’s not a choice to be taken lightly, so I hope I can help you in this complex choice.
Really, sitting comfortably gives gaming a whole new dimension.
You feel much better, you stop worrying about your position on the chair and you really enjoy playing without hurting anywhere.
And maybe it’s a placebo effect, but I feel I’m playing better too.
A bit like when you finally find a good mouse that fits in your hand.
What’s more, having a good chair and sitting well in it (given that there are good and bad ways of sitting and adjusting your chair) will gradually improve things you wouldn’t have thought of directly, like your stature, your posture, and most obviously: the end of backache.
On this page you’ll find a compilation of the gaming chair comparisons I’ve made, all sorted by range!
I try to be as impartial as possible in all my tests, so if you have any comments or suggestions, please don’t hesitate to contact me!
What’s more, I try as far as possible to detail the “perfect” profile for each gaming chair.
That way, if you can, you can save money by buying a chair that better matches your level of use.
Thomas is the creator/editor of this site. A very passionate gamer since his early childhood, his mission is to help you choose an important part of your set-up: the gaming chair.
