Board game cafés in Kamloops

Board game cafés are the best cheap night out going. Kamloops, BC has 1 mapped spots right now. Just the one mapped spot in Kamloops for now — check whether it's a café with a games library or a shop, and whether you need to book a table. Ask about the games library — the size of the shelf tells you how serious the venue is.

This guide covers every board game café and shop we could verify in and around Kamloops (within about 40 km). Listings come from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. The one to know is All Aboard Games. If a spot's missing from Kamloops's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Kamloops game night lineup

1 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about board game cafés in Kamloops

1 of the 1 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — cafés keep evening hours, so the listed times matter for planning game night.

The one mapped board game café sits on 238 Lansdowne Street — worth combining with whatever else brings you to that side of town.

Game night tips for Kamloops

How the regulars do game night in Kamloops:

• Keep phones away at All Aboard Games. Nothing kills game night like half the table scrolling. The game deserves your attention.
• Ask about the regulars' nights. Many cafés run weekly open game nights. Show up solo and you'll leave with a gaming group.
• Respect the components. Sleeved cards, no drinks on the table edge, pieces back in the box. Treat the library like it's yours.
• Don't bring your own games (usually). The library is the point. Some venues welcome outside games; ask first rather than assuming.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Kamloops — that covers the town itself plus the surrounding communities you'd reasonably drive to. Listings come from OpenStreetMap, mapped by local volunteers, so a brand-new board game café in Kamloops can take a while to appear. For board game cafés we also seed from Foursquare's venue directory, since cafés are poorly tagged on the map. The 1 above are only as current as the community map. A board game café that's shut, or a new one nobody's added yet, gets fixed with a single OpenStreetMap edit.

We don't list cover charges or menus — those change. What we list is the where: real venues from community mapping and Foursquare, with no favourites.

If you run one of the 1 listed here and something's wrong — a closure, a move, new hours — the fix is the same: update the shop on OpenStreetMap and the correction flows through to this page on the next daily refresh.