We Built the Place I Wished Existed

I started Unplugged from a simple problem: there wasn't anywhere in Edmond to just sit down, play a game, and talk to another human.

Like a lot of people, gaming was where I grew up — Warhammer armies built at the kitchen table, D&D campaigns that ran for years in a bedroom or school library, the kind of fun that didn't need a screen. Then came a corporate IT career, kids, a family, and somewhere in the middle of it, the hobby quietly disappeared, almost forgotten. Not abandoned, just... a casualty of adulting.

Coming back to it as an adult is what made Unplugged make sense. Tabletop gaming isn't just nostalgia for me — it's one of the few things left that pulls people away from their phones or computers and puts them at a table across from each other. We opened our doors in 2017 to build exactly that: a third place where the game is the excuse, and the conversations and community are the point.

Unplugged isn't just a retail store with some tables in the back. It's a third place — somewhere that isn't home and isn't work, it’s where you're a regular, not just a transaction. Good food, craft drinks (sodas and the adult kind), and every kind of tabletop gaming, all built around this one idea: don't go to a movie or stay home and sit in silence — instead come play a game and share a conversation.

Come see for yourself. Pull up a chair, grab a drink, and find your table!