Name: FISHTANK
Price range: $$

–0.5 m

Three ways to take a seat

The floor reads like a tank: one row lit up at the glass, the main body of stations mid-water, and a still corner at the back. Pick the depth that suits your mood — the machines are the same, only the view changes.

A focused player at a red-lit station in a row, hand on a mechanical keyboard, screen glowing in front

Showfish — friendly, active by day 6 stations

Showcase row

The front six seats sit right against the street window. Passers-by can watch your game the way you'd watch a tank — and yes, the seats face out on purpose. Bright, sociable, best in daylight.

It's also where the loud games live. A Fortnite endgame or an Apex final ring in the showcase row is half match, half street performance — storm colours washing over the glass, abilities popping like flares, and a passer-by or three deciding they suddenly have five minutes to spare.

Three players seen from behind, side by side at their monitors in a dark room, headsets on

Midwater — steady, always around 20 stations

Inner rows

Twenty stations fill the main body of the room, set back from the glass in tidy rows. No one is watching, no one is on show — just clean sightlines to your own screen and a headset that stays on.

A dark corner desk with dual monitors and a red-backlit mechanical keyboard glowing under a player's hands

Bottom-dweller — quiet, likes the dark 4 stations

Deep corner

Four stations tucked into the back wall, away from foot traffic and window glare. Dimmer lighting, softer chairs, the spot regulars pick when they want a long solo run without a soul nearby.

–1 m

The same rig at every seat

No good-seat, bad-seat lottery here. Every station runs a current-gen graphics card and a fast multi-core CPU, wired to a 240Hz panel so fast games feel as sharp as they should. The window row gets an extra trick: matte, anti-glare screens so the afternoon sun doesn't wash out your view. Chairs are proper mesh-back gaming seats, and peripherals get wiped between sessions.

Graphics: Current-gen GPUs, high settings held steady
Displays: 240Hz panels; matte anti-glare on the glass row
Processor: Fast multi-core CPUs, ample fast memory
Seating: Mesh-back gaming chairs, adjustable arms
Audio: Closed-back headsets, clean boom mics
Network: Wired stations, low-latency local line

–2 m

Rates by the tide

One price per hour, no membership card to earn it. The showcase row costs exactly the same as every other seat — being brave is free. When the sun drops the window dims, and the deep-night rate goes quiet with it.

Day

3.5 / hour

Opening until 5pm · brightest at the glass

Evening

5 / hour

5pm to midnight · the room fills up

Deep night

2.5 / hour

Midnight to close · window off, lights low

Prices are per station, per hour. Same rate whether you sit in the window or the back wall. Block a full night at the deep-night rate and the first coffee is on the house.

A wide gaming room bathed in green light with two rows of gaming chairs facing screens along both walls

–2.5 m

Behind the glass

The window row is the whole idea. It faces the street, so anyone walking by can stop and watch a match unfold like a scene in a tank. Nice to look at, easy to walk past — the etiquette runs both ways.

Not every game earns the front pane equally. Battle royales are the undisputed headliners — a hundred players funnelled into one shrinking circle is drama a stranger can follow with zero context — but a Rocket League overtime or a boss fight lit in gold does the trick too. Colour, motion and stakes: that's what plays well through glass.

Sitting in the glass is a choice, never a rule. Ask for it, or don't — the staff never seat you there by default.
There's a small plaque in the window for the street too: watch as long as you like, no knocking on the glass.
Want the front row? Note it when you book, or ask at the desk if a window seat is open when you arrive.

–2.7 m

Games on display

Some games were simply built to be watched, and the showcase row proves it every evening. Storm circles shrinking, third parties crashing a gunfight, a squad wipe in the final ring — these are the moments that stop people on the pavement. Here's what tends to be swimming in the front pane.

battle royale — bright, loud, beloved Crowd favourite

Fortnite

The most window-friendly game we run. Candy-coloured skies, builds going up like scaffolding in fast-forward, and a storm that paints the whole screen purple. When a window seat hits the final ten, the pavement audience grows on its own.

battle royale — fast, slippery, stylish Movement show

Apex Legends

Pure motion from drop to podium. Legends slide, zip and wall-bounce through neon arenas, and ability effects light the glass row like a small fireworks display. Even people who've never played can tell something spectacular just happened.

battle royale — tense, patient, explosive Slow-burn drama

PUBG & Warzone

The quieter kind of spectacle. Long minutes of held breath, a scope glinting over a ridge, then thirty seconds of absolute chaos as the circle closes. Warzone's huge maps and PUBG's honest gunfights both read beautifully from the street side of the glass.

–3 m

Glass diary

Small things that happened at the window, written down so we don't forget them.

log — a good crowd Window bench

The cheering corner

A late-round comeback in the glass row pulled a little cheering section onto the pavement outside. Six strangers watching through the window, nodding along. The player never turned around, but she said she could feel it.

log — a mascot appears Front pane

The fish sticker

Someone stuck a tiny goldfish decal in the bottom corner of the window as a joke. We meant to peel it off. Instead it stayed, people started pointing at it, and now it's on the door, the cups, and this page.

log — maintenance day Whole facade

Fresh clean glass

We finally scrubbed years of fingerprints off the front pane. The streamers in the window row noticed within an hour — the reflection on their monitors dropped, colours read truer, and one of them thanked us on air.

–3.5 m

Floor gallery

The rows, the window and the water we swim in — with seat numbers where they help.

A player at his glowing station with rows of occupied seats stretching into the dark hall — The rows

Two smiling players in orange gaming chairs at neighbouring stations, neon lights glowing behind them — Seats 1–6

A tidy station by the window: monitor, keyboard and mouse on the desk, a player taking notes — The setup

–3.8 m

The rest of the tank

Battle royales may own the window, but the library goes much deeper. Every station carries the big competitive staples — Counter-Strike 2, Valorant, League of Legends, Dota 2 — the games where a clean clutch round earns a nod from three seats over. Rocket League deserves a special mention: cars doing aerial goals is the single easiest thing on the floor to explain to a passer-by.

For the players who came to sink into something rather than sweat, there's a shelf of visually rich single-player worlds too. Cyberpunk 2077's neon streets and Elden Ring's golden horizons look absurdly good on a 240Hz panel with the settings held high, and a boss attempt in the front row has held a small crowd more than once. Fast co-op runs, story epics, a few timeless classics — if it's dynamic, colourful and worth looking at over someone's shoulder, odds are it's already installed.

Everything is pre-loaded and patched before doors open, so your hour is spent playing, not downloading. Missing a title you love? Tell the desk and we'll add it to the next feeding.

Battle royale: Fortnite, Apex Legends, PUBG, Warzone
Tactical & MOBA: Counter-Strike 2, Valorant, League of Legends, Dota 2
Pure spectacle: Rocket League, Overwatch 2, flashy action picks
Story worlds: Cyberpunk 2077, Elden Ring, big single-player epics
Ready to go: Pre-installed, patched daily, no download wait
Requests: Ask the desk — new titles land weekly

–4 m

Bubble FAQ

Will you make me sit in the window?

Never. The showcase row is opt-in, full stop. The desk seats you in the inner rows unless you ask for the glass, and you can move back to a quieter seat any time one is free. Nobody is put on display without saying yes to it first.

Does the window glare on the screens?

The showcase row runs matte, anti-glare panels chosen specifically for that spot, so daylight softens instead of bouncing. There's a light drape for the brightest part of the afternoon too. Inner rows sit far enough back that glare was never an issue.

What if people stop and stare from outside?

That's rather the point — watch the tank, enjoy the match. A small plaque asks passers-by to look and not knock, and most do exactly that. If it ever feels like too much, tell the desk and we'll move you deeper into the room.

Can you see the window row from the street at night?

Barely, and on purpose. When the deep-night rate begins the window dims and the front lights drop, so the glass row turns private and quiet. Late players get the calm of the back rows with the seat of the front one.

Can I book one exact seat?

Yes. When you book you choose the showcase row or the inner rows, and you can request a specific seat number in the note field or by ringing the desk. We hold it for fifteen minutes past your start time before it goes back into the tank.

–5 m · the bottom

Dive in

Pick a day, a spot and a tide. We'll hold your station and wave when you arrive.

FISHTANK — the computer club behind the glass.