Gaming cafes in San Francisco
Three venues around the bay, none of them in San Francisco itself: the gaming floors here sit in the East Bay and across the bridge in Marin.
3 venues on file · 55 PCs counted · 2 with no published count
Map · 3 pins · number is the PC count
What the numbers say about San Francisco
kin/games in Hayward charges $5 an hour or $20 for the day, and runs tabletop alongside the screens. Esporterz in Larkspur starts at $12.50 an hour, the highest rate on this list locally, and sells most of its time as monthly memberships for esports teams and coding classes — drop-in play depends on space. Neither publishes a machine count.
The Cal Esports Community Center does: 55 PCs in Stern Hall on the UC Berkeley campus, on a day pass of $8 or $50 for the semester. It is run by campus recreation rather than as a public room, and people from outside the university arrange their time with the centre instead of walking in. The South Bay venues around San Jose have their own page.
What an hour costs in San Francisco
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Open past midnight
None of the 3 venues here stays open past midnight.
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Cheapest hour published
$5 at kin/games, of the 2 venues that publish a rate.
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Where they are
Berkeley (1), Larkspur (1), Hayward (1).
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Nearest to you
- 100+ PCs0
- 40–991
- 15–390
- Under 150
- Not published2
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PCs
55
Rate
n/a
Open
19:00–
23:00 (varies)
Rating
4.9
· 41
US San Francisco tournamentsno rate published
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PCs
n/a
Rate
$12.50/HR
Open
08:30–
18:00 (varies)
Rating
5.0
· 44
US San Francisco tournaments · coachingPC count not published
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PCs
n/a
Rate
$5/HR
Open
12:00–
20:00 (varies)
Rating
4.6
· 49
US San Francisco no features listedPC count not published
Questions about gaming cafes in San Francisco
Is there a gaming cafe in San Francisco?
Not in the city itself on this list. The nearest are kin/games in Hayward and Esporterz in Larkspur, with the Cal Esports Community Center on the UC Berkeley campus. For rooms around San Jose, see the South Bay page.
How much does it cost?
$5 an hour at kin/games, or $20 for the day. Esporterz starts at $12.50 an hour and sells most of its time by monthly membership. Cal Esports sells a day pass at $8, a semester at $50 and a year at $100.
Can anyone use the Cal Esports Community Center?
It is run by UC Berkeley Recreation and Wellbeing in Stern Hall, so it works on campus recreation rules rather than public drop-in. The centre says people who are not students can arrange stations and hours with it directly. The floor is 55 PCs.
Read before you go
- What is a PC bang?The Korean PC room, how a session works, and where the format lives on outside Korea.
- What is a gaming cafe?The differences between gaming cafes, internet cafes, PC bangs and LAN centers.
- University esports arenas open to the publicWhich college arenas let outsiders in, and what an hour costs when you are not a student.