A guide to gifts for the special gamer girl in your life!
A guide to gifts for the special gamer girl in your life!
Though giving gifts is exciting, buying them can often get stressful, especially when you’ve run out of ideas. Shopping for a gamer girl should be fun! There are so many cool and creative gifts you can buy for them. We took the time to break down 14 gift ideas with linked examples so you can stress less. Let’s jump right into the ultimate gamer girl gift guide!
Starting with an easy and cheap gift idea, game-themed hair accessories are both cute and functional. They can easily be found at malls and online stores, like the Hot Topic Animal Crossing and Sonic the Hedgehog ones pictured above. They can also be handmade, like the Kirby ones from Etsy in the middle. They’re great to accompany big or small gifts to pull everything together.
Game-themed shirts and sweatshirts are a cool way to elevate a common gift. Everyone enjoys wearing clothes that display their favorite thing, something that’s extra true for gamer girls. You can find clothes with more popular games like the Sims 2 and the Legend of Zelda at places like Hot Topic and BoxLunch. If you’re looking for a game that hasn’t yet made it to Hot Topic like Stardew Valley, Final Fantasy, or Valorant, Etsy is where you’ll need to go.
Whether your gamer plays on a PC or console, they’re guaranteed to have either a controller or a headset. By gifting a place to put them you can save the annoyance of moving them around their room and losing them. This is a functional gift that can be made cute like the crystal controller holder, wings headphone holder, and moon controller holder pictured above. All three have multiple variations of color to choose from, so you can choose your gamer’s favorite color or even match it to their setup.
Now for some gifts tailored to Nintendo Switch players! After spending hundreds on the console and games, Switch players often overlook the many customization options available. With cases, there are two options to choose from, travel cases, pictured on the far right and far left, and protective cases, pictured in the middle. Both can be used at once, but if you’re torn on which type to buy, just determine whether your gamer likes to travel with their Switch, then go from there. There’s an endless amount of design options that can be found in a variety of places like Target, BoxLunch, and GeekShare.
Continuing with Switch-related gifts, small accessories are another easy gift with lots of options. They can be functional like the Kuromi game card holder above, or fully decorative like the Sanrio charms in the middle and the Hello Kitty thumb grips. If you’re someone who likes to give a gift with a theme, these accessories are easy to match to a new Switch case. Small gifts like these are something they’d probably never think to buy but are super excited to receive.
On to more tiny accessories, Hot Topic and Etsy are a treasure trove of small game-themed gifts. On Hot Topic you can visit the “Gamer” section under “Pop Culture” and filter by product type and license, to browse their options. Mystery packs like the Five Nights at Freddy’s pins above make cool gifts that allow both you and the giftee to be surprised. On Etsy you can generally search “game” plus whatever you’re looking for, stickers, bookmarks, pins, etc. If you have a more specific game in mind, you can search for that game plus the accessory type you want. Stickers are the easiest and cheapest option to buy on Etsy, plus they’re usually hand-drawn art.
Moving into our keyboard section, desk mats, and mouse pads are another functional gift that doubles as an art piece. However, before you choose a design, you need to know which type you want. Desk mats are much larger than mouse pads, and can fit both a keyboard and mouse. This conveniently removes the need for a mouse pad but takes up a large desk section. On the other hand, mouse pads may only fit a mouse, but they take up much less room. It all depends on the size of your gamer’s desk. Both options provide style options of original art like the bunny one from GeekShare and the ghost camera one from Etsy, and art from games and shows like the Jinx one from Etsy.
Onto the most expensive, but arguably the coolest, gift option on this list, keyboards and keycaps. When it comes to keyboards, many gamers buy one and then use it for life, either too stubborn or indecisive to buy another. It’s time for you to step in and buy them one.
What’s cool about keyboards is you can buy a whole new keyboard or just buy a set of keycaps. There’s of course a price gap between the two because of the difference in how many parts you’re buying. Some cool keyboard companies to shop around are YUNZII, Taro Depato, LEOBOG, and Akko.
Prot Tip: TikTok is a great place to find keyboards and keycaps and see how they look and sound in action!
On to the final gift in the keyboard section of this guide, wrist rests are a great gift for any PC gamer. These also prevent wrist pain and soreness after hours of gaming or typing, not to mention they’re super cute. You can buy a squishy one like the blue cloud and angel wing rests above from Amazon, or a hard one like the cat and sakura rest from Etsy.
Popularized by girl gamers on TikTok, chair cushions for gamer chairs help prevent a sore back while also elevating a setup. As seen in the far left picture above, cushions like these pull together the space’s aesthetic and vibe. They’re also super easy to get on Amazon and to narrow down your options, many gamers on TikTok link their specific pillow, making your life even easier.
Posters! They’re rather straightforward but always a cool gift. You can find them in a variety of places like Amazon, AllPosters, and Etsy, in any game you can imagine.
Night lights like the ones pictured above, make for cute desk accessories. The easiest and cheapest place to buy them is on Amazon where they come in different shapes, animals, and colors. You can go for a simple toaster or capybara light or upgrade to something more futuristic like the moving jellyfish light. There are also tons of cool and cheap options on places like Temu, but beware that they take longer to arrive.
Before you say they already have too many coffee mugs, hear me out. Coffee mugs can be used for any beverage, not just coffee, and they can also be used to hold pencils and pens, makeup brushes, candies, and much more. You can find them themed to video games like the Stardew Valley mug in the middle above, or from movies and TV shows like the Soot Sprite and Bratz mugs. They’re a great addition to any gamer’s desk and never go out of style.
That’s all for this week! For more ideas visit our gamer Christmas gift guide. We hope your gamer girl loves her gift!
