Posted on: October 27, 2018 Posted by: James McQuiston Comments: 0

If you’ve always wanted a boxful of items dropped at your doorstep on a periodic basis rather than buying each item at any given time, then you can get yourself a subscription box. Each piece inside a subscription box revolves around a central concept or theme, so you as the recipient of one already have a fair idea of what to expect. But at the same time, the particulars of each item inside a subscription box are a mystery, which makes for most of its appeal. There’s a subscription box for just about anything you can think of, geek gaming culture included.

However, with so many nerdy subscription boxes to choose from, finding one that would make you want to renew your subscription can be challenging. To help you decide as to which one to get for yourself, here are the top ten geek subscription boxes for every gamer that you can consider purchasing:

  1. Loot Gaming

Loot Crate has been shipping subscription boxes containing geek merchandise since 2012. They may have taken four years after they first started to come up with a subscription box for the gaming subset, but Loot Gaming as they called it has proven to be yet another runaway success for Loot Crate.

As with Loot Crate’s other themed offerings, Loot Gaming is a subscription box delivered every month. A typical Loot Gaming box contains up to six collectible items related to gaming culture that you won’t find anywhere else. Aside from that, you’ll also get a booklet resembling a game manual and a collector’s pin when you subscribe to Loot Gaming. There may also be months in your Loot Gaming subscription wherein you might receive an actual game installer, an in-game item, or additional game content.

  1. Geek Gear

If you’re currently living in the UK, US-based subscription boxes like Loot Gaming might cost you more money as you also have to pay for international shipping fees. You can opt to receive a geek subscription box from the Scottish company Geek Gear instead.

Geek Gear offers subscription boxes to fans of the British book and movie series Harry Potter (which you may or may not be a fan of), but if you’re into vintage games, you can subscribe to their Classic or Classic Special Edition box instead. You can make an advance payment covering three, six, or twelve months of your Geek Gear Classic or Classic Special Edition subscription so that you don’t have to pay for it on a monthly basis.

  1. Geek Fuel EXP

Another US-based geek subscription box that you should look into aside from Loot Gaming is Geek Fuel EXP. The subscription box may contain up to eight items, one of which is any of the games available on the distribution platform Steam. What’s nice about this box is you will receive a unique Steam game and other exclusive items that you can enjoy.

  1. Lootaku

Geek subscription boxes aren’t just limited to the US and UK as Hong Kong-based Lootaku is also popular. Despite primarily catering to fans of Japanese comic books and animation as their name states (Lootaku being a portmanteau of the words “loot” and “otaku”), Lootaku also includes gaming-related collectibles as part of their monthly subscription boxes.

  1. Dungeon Crate

The role-playing game Dungeons and Dragons may have been around for more than four decades already, but it was only after video-streaming service Netflix had put out its original web series “Stranger Things” in 2016 that the said RPG experienced a resurgence in popularity. A younger generation of gamers who weren’t around during the 1980’s started rediscovering D&D as a result. Dungeon Crate was quick to capitalize on the said trend by putting out monthly subscription boxes that contain items related not just to D&D but also to other similar tabletop RPGs as well. So if you’re less of a video gamer and more of a tabletop one, you’ll want to subscribe to Dungeon Crate.

  1. Mythoard

Dungeon Crate isn’t alone though in putting out tabletop game subscription boxes as it faces competition from Mythoard. If you feel at any point that Dungeon Crate’s offerings aren’t exciting anymore, you can cancel your subscription and switch to Mythoard instead. Mythoard offers various tabletop RPGs mostly made by independent game publishers.

  1. Game Box Monthly

Another tabletop role-playing game subscription worth considering is Game Box Monthly. Unlike Dungeon Crate and Mythoard, Game Box Monthly offers its subscription boxes in two varieties, namely, Classic and Bold. If you aren’t that patient with playing tabletop RPGs, you’ll want to give Game Box Monthly’s Classic subscription box a try. On the other hand, if you often participate in tabletop game sessions that typically last for hours, you’ll want to register for Game Box Monthly’s Bold subscription box instead.

  1. Retro Game Treasure

If you still have any of the gaming consoles (other than a desktop computer) that your parents or older relatives used to play with when they were still kids, you might want to load them up with some vintage games. But instead of searching for those on eBay or some other auction site, you can subscribe to Retro Game Treasure and expect to receive a subscription box containing some of the hottest games from decades past.

  1. Hunt a Killer

Are you fond of watching thriller movies or reading novels involving serial killers, and do you want to channel your inner Sherlock Holmes? Maryland-based entertainment company Hunt a Killer aims to make a difference in the geek subscription market by getting into the previously untapped murder mystery niche with their eponymous monthly series of subscription boxes. When you play Hunt a Killer, you’ll receive boxes containing clues designed to help you solve a murder case and you’ll put whatever detective skills you have into good use, thus making for a more immersive gaming experience.

  1. Nerd Block

Founded in 2013, formerly Canadian subscription box service Nerd Block used to specialize in delivering various collectibles and apparel that have to do with horror and arcade games to their subscribers’ doorsteps. Unfortunately, Nerd Block filed for bankruptcy last August 2017 – although they have since teamed up with video game development company Blizzard Entertainment amongst other new partners, changed ownership, and moved to the US. However, there’s no word yet when Nerd Block would start resuming their operations despite having announced a 2018 relaunch. But in case they do come back anytime soon, you might want to register for their subscription box service and possibly get a Warcraft or Overwatch collectible if you’re into either of those two most popular video game titles put out by Blizzard.

Conclusion

Being identified as a geek may you get you bullied and humiliated in the past. But as a 2013 article by The Guardian had pointed out, the digital age had turned the tables around such that geeks became movers and shakers in various fields such as technology, gaming, and the sciences. Geek culture eventually earned its rightful place in mainstream society that it’s now cool to be one yourself. What’s cooler though is getting to receive any of the top ten geek subscription boxes for every gamer like you as listed above in your doorstep and using it to make unboxing videos that can earn you money for your subscription renewal.

 

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