I acquired my palms on Razer’s new $50 mechanical mini keeb and it makes a rattling good first impression

Razer had a bountiful show of merchandise to point out at Gamescom 2026, a lot of which include substantial value tags. However, my eyes lit up after I noticed the brand new Razer Reclusa X Mini 65% keyboard, particularly because it’s acquired a $50/£60 MSRP.

I picked it up and twisted it round in my palms, anticipating it to bend like a chunk of cardboard due to some price range supplies. Nope, it looks like a really solidly-built gadget—which is fairly spectacular given the reasonably priced price ticket.

The doubleshot ABS keycaps, together with Razer’s Gen-3 orange tactile switches, really feel downright high-end. It makes a superb noise, too, producing the type of weighty thock I usually affiliate with far more costly keebs. I’ve used sufficient $50 boards to know that you just often do not get a complete lot to your money, however this one looks like a correct fanatic providing—even when it does are available a shrunken 65% type issue.

The switches are hot-swappable, with each 3-pin and 5-pin fashions supported. The orange ones it comes with are designed to ship a “crisp, satisfying tactile bump without the click,” in line with the press launch, and I can affirm this to be true.

I hate overly-clicky tactile switches, however these are relatively good. They’re specced out with a 3.5 mm journey distance and 50 g of actuation power, which mixes with the keycaps to make for a satisfying typing expertise. At least, for the transient time I acquired to play with it. It was torn from my palms finally, as there have been extra RGB-lit sights to see. Shame.

The Reclusa X Mini 65% additionally helps Snap Tap, Razer’s model of the somewhat-controversial SOCD tech, which makes use of the latest enter when two keys are pressed for quicker counter strafing. It additionally helps Snap Flex, which can be utilized to bind two key inputs right into a single press. Nothing revolutionary there, nevertheless it’s in all probability sufficient to maintain the aggressive gaming crowd .

That being mentioned, as somebody that primarily likes a superb keyboard for its really feel beneath my fingertips, not essentially for its esports-like credentials, I’m extra within the construct high quality mixed with the worth tag.

As PC element prices skyrocket, any money it can save you on respectable peripherals means extra within the kitty to your subsequent graphics card. And whereas the market is stuffed with well-priced gaming keyboards, numerous them are fairly uninspiring affairs. This one? I’ve acquired excessive hopes.

A evaluation pattern is winging its strategy to PC Gamer Towers as we communicate, so I’ll give it a correct take a look at as soon as it is arrived. In the meantime, take pleasure in among the fairly photos I took above. Everyone loves a handsome keeb for cheap money, proper?