GameChest
Your board game shelf, and your friends' next to it.
Search BoardGameGeek, tap the game, put it on the shelf: on your phone, in seconds. Or bring your whole BGG collection in at once.
The games on this page are invented. The shelf is the real thing: try it below.
Or see a real one: Nuno's shelf, as anyone with its link sees itFind the one you mean
Every game answers two questions: do you own it, and what are you doing with it. Tap a chip and the shelf answers. It opens on what you have, as yours will.
Own it?
Doing
Players
16 of 19 games.
At Rui's
In its own shape, or by colour
Boxes stand in their own shape, the same height, like a real shelf. Or sort it by colour, read from each cover: the shelf you'd take a photo of.
Every box in its own shape, the same height, rows edge to edge.
At Rui'sWhat should we play tonight?
Say who's coming and how long you've got. On a real night it reads every shelf in your circle, and guests vote on a link, no account needed.
How many of you
How long
9 of 15 fit.
Saltmarsh is at Rui's, so it isn't offered.
Your friends' shelves, next to yours
Friends see your covers and what's for sale, never what you paid, your notes, or who was at your table. When one of you is selling what the other wants, you both hear about it.
Your shelf
Ana's shelf
- You're selling Night Harbor for £48.00, and it's on Ana's wishlist.
- Ana is selling Stonewright for £32.00, and it's on your wishlist.
Which do you want to play first?
Mark the games you want to play and the list puts them in order, two at a time. Any ranking works the same way: the whole shelf, this year's plays, the wishlist.
Which do you want to play first?
Want to play, in no order yet
- –Drovers
- –Meadowlark
- –Paper Comets
- –Quiet Moon
- –Tidewater
And the rest of the shelf's life
- Selling
- Listing text for eBay, a Facebook group or Vinted, ready to paste, or a listing published to eBay from your own account. A game that's gone keeps how it left and when, and for how much if it sold.
- Deals
- Put a target price on a game you want to buy, and an email comes the morning an eBay UK listing at or under it turns up, postage counted when eBay states it. These are asking prices, or an auction's current bid, never sold prices.
- Curate
- Points at what the shelf might be better without, a duplicate or a stranded expansion, and says why. Nothing is decided for you.
- Numbers
- What the shelf holds, what gets played, and each year counted.
- Plays
- Log a play in a tap, or bring your plays in from BGG. When and with whom stay private to your shelf; friends see only whether you've played a game.
- Pre-orders and pledges
- Kickstarters and pre-orders have a place before the box arrives, with the pledge manager's link.
- A shared shelf
- Live with another gamer? Share one shelf, and still know whose copy is whose.
- Lending
- Lend a copy and the shelf remembers who has it, and since when.
- Snap the shelf
- Photograph a shelf, or pick a photo, and choose from the games it can see.
How it starts
1. Make an account
Your name, an email and a password. The email has a link to confirm it. Add a passkey once you're in.
2. Bring your games in
Your BGG username brings the whole collection in, usually in under a minute. No BGG account? Search and add a few by hand.
3. Add friends, if you like
Swap friend codes and see each other's shelves. It works just as well on your own.
Questions
Is it free?
Yes. No ads, no subscription, nothing to buy: no payment is taken, nothing is sold to you, and nothing is sold about you.
The full answer: Is it free?Do I need a BoardGameGeek account?
No. Search BoardGameGeek's catalogue and add games without one, paste a list of names, photograph a shelf, or add a game by hand. If you have one, your collection comes in from your username and can sync both ways.
The full answer: Do I need a BoardGameGeek account?What do my friends see?
Part of your shelf: the games you have, want to buy or have on the way, with an asking price on any you're selling or trading, which ones you want to play, and whether you've played a game. Your recent changes show on their Home and at the top of their Friends page, and you can switch that off. Never what you paid, your notes, your photos, or when and with whom you played.
The full answer: What do my friends see?Can I take my data with me?
Any time: Settings has the whole shelf as one CSV, every game with your answers, prices, conditions and notes. You can also delete your account from Settings.
The full answer: Can I take my data with me?Is there an app?
It's a website that works like one; there's no App Store or Play Store version. Added to your phone's home screen, it opens on its own, without the browser's bars. Your own shelf can open without a signal, too: see Does it work without a signal?
The full answer: Is there an app?Who makes it?
One person in Edinburgh, with a few friends who use it and say what's wrong with it. More on who makes it, and why.
Yours to take
Your data leaves whenever you want: the whole shelf as one CSV, every game with what you paid, asking and sold prices, conditions and notes. Your BGG collection can sync both ways, and the sync shows you every change before it makes any.
No ads, no analytics script, and nothing sold.