SQUAD FORGE PC CLUB · a computer club with a glowing veranda
Twenty stations wait inside on 240Hz screens and quiet chairs. When you need air, the door opens onto a garden veranda strung with warm lights, where tea, lemonade and a fifteen-minute pause never touch your clock. This is a PC club first, an evening garden second.
Where you sit
Twenty seats, three moods. Every station runs the same class of hardware — the difference is how much of the room you want around you. Pick a bright window row, a quiet corner, or a bench built for two.
Fourteen stations run along the windows, so the yard and its lights sit just past your monitor. Bright, sociable, and the first to fill on Friday. Best if you like company and a glance at the veranda between rounds.
Four stations tucked in the back corner, low light and a soft rug underfoot. No foot traffic behind your chair. This is where the late five-hour sessions and the tense final rounds happen.
Two stations sharing one long desk, close enough to call the play out loud. Bring a friend, split a jug of lemonade, and take the veranda break together when the round ends.
The one thing you will remember
Push the back door and the room opens onto a small garden yard, roofed with two strings of warm lights we call the fireflies. It is the break room turned inside out: a place to stand up, stretch, and let a match settle before the next one. Tea and lemonade live out here, free and self-serve. Any pause under fifteen minutes never touches your clock, so stepping out to breathe costs you nothing but the walk. When the nights turn cold we roll out the awning and a stack of blankets, and the fireflies keep glowing straight through the first frost.
In daylight
One bright section, because gear deserves an honest look without the mood lighting. Every seat in the house runs the same build — no slow row, no premium row, just twenty equal stations kept clean and cabled.
27-inch panels at 240Hz on every desk. Fast enough for the tightest shooters, calm enough to read a long strategy map for hours.
Current-generation graphics cards across all twenty stations, wiped and updated on a weekly bench so no seat lags behind the others.
Padded seats with real lumbar support and armrests that hold their height. Built for a five-hour night, not a quick round.
Mechanical keyboards, low-latency mice and wired headsets, swapped out the moment a switch or cable starts to fade.
What it costs
Plain hourly time on any station, plus two block rates for longer evenings. The veranda is not a tier and never an upgrade — it stays open and free for every guest, whichever seat you book.
6/ hour
Single hourly seat, any open station. Pay for what you play, minute for minute.
22/ 5 hrs
A five-hour evening at one station, veranda breaks and lemonade included for everyone — same rate, no surcharge for the garden.
30/ close
From nine until we lock the door on weekend nights. Blankets on the veranda when it gets cold.
Kept by hand
Small notes from the yard, written up whenever something changes out on the veranda. Nothing about scores — just the garden and the lights.
One line of lights was never quite enough once the tables filled, so we hung a second string along the far rail. The corner by the mint is finally warm all the way to the fence, and the late crowd has stopped fighting for the bright end of the bench.
The first cold night arrived earlier than the calendar promised. We dragged out the blanket crate on a hunch, and it emptied in an hour. Turns out a five-minute break under the lights is even better with wool on your shoulders. The crate stays out now until spring.
The self-serve tea used to come from a box. Now a long planter of mint runs the length of the rail, and the evening pot tastes like the garden it grew in. Pinch a leaf on your way past if you like — that is what it is there for.
After dark
A few evening frames of the hall and the yard. The firefly counts are a running joke among the staff and should not be trusted with anything important.
The bench crowd
The faces you meet twice a week and then start saving a seat for. No membership card, no tier — just the folks who keep coming back for the lights, the mint tea, and a good run on a quiet corner station.
I came for one hour and stayed until the blankets came out. The clock stops when you step onto the veranda, so I stopped watching it. Now I book the same corner every week and the tea is warm before I even sit down.
Mira — Tuesday regular, Duo bench
The night-owls. Four of them share the Deep nook most weekends, chasing a long strategy run until close. They water the mint on their way out.
The window row. A rotating crew who claim the Garden rows to watch the yard between rounds. Loudest cheer in the house when the second string of lights went up.
Three steps
Booking takes a minute and holds your station cabled and ready. No deposit, no account — just a name, a night, and a seat that fits your mood.
Choose Garden rows for the window light, the Deep nook for quiet, or the Duo bench for two. Then tell us how long — an hour, three, a full evening, or a night straight through to close.
Drop your name, email and date into the form below. We hold the exact station you asked for, so there is no scramble for the bright end of the bench when you walk in.
Give your name at the desk, take your seat, and the veranda is open the moment you want air. Tea and lemonade are self-serve, and any pause under fifteen minutes never touches your clock.
Kept by points, not coin
A friendly board scored on points and time alone — never money. Log an evening, run a clean night, or top a weekly ladder, and the count goes up. The only reward is bragging rights and a warmer welcome next visit.
per evening logged at any station — the simplest way onto the board.
a full evening block earns a bonus point for the long haul on one seat.
close out a weekend night and take the honorary night-owl mark for the week.
lead the weekly points ladder and your name goes on the veranda chalkboard.
Scores reset every Sunday — just points and hours, tallied by hand, for bragging rights alone.
Before you come
No, and it never will be. The garden, the lights, the tea and the lemonade are open to every guest the moment you book a station. There is no veranda ticket, no minimum spend and no upgrade tier — a single hourly seat gets you the same yard as a night block. We built it as a break room, not a product.
The veranda is a no-smoking garden, indoors and out. It keeps the air clear for the tea, the mint and the folks sharing the bench beside you. There is a spot on the public street past the gate if you need one, and your clock pauses while you step away all the same.
The awning rolls out over the seating in a minute, so the tables and lights stay dry and the strings keep glowing through a shower. On a hard storm we simply move the tea indoors and wait it out — the stations never notice the weather, and neither does your session.
Any pause under fifteen minutes is free and does not touch your clock, whether you spend it on the veranda or just stretching by the door. Step out for tea, come back, and your time picks up where it left off. Longer breaks we handle at the desk, one on one, so nobody loses a seat they paid for.
We run until two in the morning on weeknights and until six on Friday and Saturday, with the night block covering the whole stretch from nine to close. The Deep nook is the calm place for the long hours, and the blanket crate lives on the veranda straight through the cold months.
Hold a seat
Tell us when you are coming and which seat suits the night. We hold it, ready and cabled, and the fireflies handle the mood lighting.
On the veranda · what people play
String lights, tea and a garden door — the club is built for games you play the slow, friendly way. Nothing here needs to shout.
Tend a farm, run a shop, decorate a room — the veranda's favourite kind of night.
Drop-in journeys for two, best with a pot of tea within reach.
Group nights and mini-game chaos on neighbouring seats, controllers welcome.
Story worlds that reward a long, unhurried session under the lanterns.
Sandbox worlds to potter in while the fireflies glow overhead.
Quiet, clever games for a slow corner and a clear head.