The Board Game Marketplace, Built Smart.
General marketplaces are too noisy, and shipping a game across the country can cost more than the game itself. We built a platform specifically designed for tabletop hobbyists to trade securely in their local communities.
Rich Board Game Data
No more typing out player counts and play times. Our platform matches listings to a catalogue of 3,700+ board games automatically.
100% Local Focus
Skip continental shipping logistics and high handling fees. Filter your search area safely within 80 kilometers, built for neighborhood handoffs.
Wishlist Notifications
Stop digging through messy keyword search grids. Get notified automatically the second a game on your radar hits your local area.
Trades, Not Just Sales
Swap shelf for shelf. Propose trades with up to five games a side, sweeten the deal with cash, and get a heads-up when someone nearby has your grail and wants one of yours.
We love BGG and Facebook. We aren't here to replace them.
Look, we use BoardGameGeek every single day to log our plays, read reviews, and check forums. And Facebook Marketplace is great when you need to sell an old couch. We aren't trying to replace either of them. Instead, we built the hyper-focused missing piece: a specialized, secure tool designed purely to help neighborhood gamers swap titles without dealing with cross-country shipping costs or wading through general marketplace spam.
Right Tool for the Right Job
How our specialized local features complement your existing board game toolkits.
| When You Need... | Our Platform (Local Trades) | Facebook (General Sales) | BGG GeekMarket (Rare/Global) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Automated Game Stats | Integrated Database — Item entries pull player counts, play times, and release years instantly. | Manual Entry — Optimized for general items; you must type out all tabletop details from scratch. | Deepest Archive — The world's richest board game database, with ratings, rankings, and reviews from a huge community. The place to look a game up before you buy. |
| Proximity & Logistics | Local radius of 80 kilometers — Purpose-built for quick, secure neighborhood handoffs with zero shipping overhead. | Broad Local Radius — Great local reach, but listings are mixed in with generic retail ads and unrelated items. | Worldwide Reach — The gold standard for finding rare games from sellers around the world. |
| Targeted Deal Alerts | Proximity Wishlist Pings — Automatically pings you the second a local gamer lists your specific target title, or rolls them into one daily summary. | Manual Saved Searches — Relies on checking custom keyword alerts that often catch accidental or unrelated keyword matches. | Global Want-List — Share the games you're hunting for with collectors worldwide. |
| Game Trades | Built-In Trade Offers — Up to five games a side, optional cash either way, and alerts when a nearby trade lines up. | DIY Swaps — Every trade worked out by hand in Messenger. | Community Math Trades — Big community-run trade rounds, usually shipped or swapped at conventions. |
Your exact address is none of our business.
Local trading shouldn't mean sacrificing your personal safety. We engineered our location features from the ground up to protect your home privacy.
We don't collect street addresses
When you share your location, we round it to broad coordinates. We don't store—and literally don't even have—your street address.
Blurred distances
Buyers never see your town or address, just a rough distance, and anything close simply reads “Within 5 km”. No one browsing your listings can pin down your neighborhood.
You control the meet up
Our system encourages handoffs at public, well-lit community spaces (like local game stores, coffee shops, or police station swap zones). You decide when and where to chat.
Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know about our localized matchmaking logic and database tools.
Q. How does the wishlist notification system check proximity?
When a user lists a game, our platform runs a lightweight background calculation checking the distance between their coordinate grid and your home location token. If the game matches your wishlist criteria and falls within your 80 kilometers proximity boundary, a notification fires immediately, or lands in your daily summary if that's how you like it.
Q. Can I track game listings near my workplace or a city I am visiting?
Yes! In your profile settings, press 'Just for This Visit' and Listings shows games within 80 kilometers of where you are right now, just for this visit. Your saved location and your listings stay where they are. Browsing without an account? 'Find Games Nearby' uses where you are now.
Q. What happens if a rare board game isn't in our database?
Our catalogue already covers 3,700+ board games. If yours isn't there, whether it's a small print run, a crowdfunded game, or a local release, you can add it yourself in a few seconds: give its name, say whether it's a base game or an expansion, and add its BoardGameGeek number if it has one. You can list it straight away, and our team can fill in details such as player counts and play time later.
Ready to clear your shelves?
Join your local community and find the exact board games you want to play next.