Logitech G Aurora Collection Review: Cloudy Comfort for Your Gaming Sessions

In a world filled with gaming accessories in shades of black, green, and red; Logitech is doing the Lord’s work with collections designed for those of us who like the literal lighter side of gaming. If the usual stark, aggressive designs of gaming accessories have you reluctant to invest in a good gaming set-up, then you’re going to love what Logitech has to offer in the Logitech G Aurora collection.

There are plenty of players who enjoy the softer side of gaming and would like their gaming peripherals to reflect their personal style and ”cute’ ‘heavenly’ office aesthetic. This is why I’m positively giddy about the design of the goodies in the Logitech G Aurora collection. I got hands-on with the Logitech G705 gaming mouse and G713 gaming keyboard to see if the collection is more than just gaming gear with a pretty facelift.

What sets the Aurora collection apart?

The new collection features gaming accessories in pastel colours and beautiful dreamy designs. It includes the G735 Wireless Gaming Headset, G715 Wireless Gaming Keyboard, G713 Gaming Keyboard, G705 Wireless Gaming Mouse, as well as custom accessories. With designs taking into account smaller-handed gamers while bringing some aesthetically pleasing silhouettes and colours.

The Aurora collection has a distinctive look and design while also allowing for personalisation through custom accessories and colour options. The gear in the collection also includes Logitech G’s advanced gaming-grade technologies like Lightspeed high-performance wireless technology and Blue Vo!ce [sic] microphone technology. It’s a collection of gear that centres around comfort and playfulness, enabling gamers to express themselves while delivering the advanced feature set that all gamers expect.

Logitech says the Aurora collection was conceptualised based on the feedback from gamers across the community and brought to life by the internal innovation, design, engineering and marketing team at Logitech. The brand says the design process for the collection was guided by the following three principles:

• Comfort: In the design phase, the team made sure to take things into account like different face shapes and accessories, notably that of the headphones to cater for longer hair, glasses, and earrings; along with the mouse being tailored for smaller hands. Not stopping at fit. The team prioritised products that felt and looked good to support longer play sessions, exploring different materials and finishes that were lightweight and soft to the touch.
• Approachability: To address areas of opportunity around approachability the team broke away from the typical sharp edges, black colourways and loud aesthetics to create a more welcome experience featuring softer tonalities, translucent materials and soothing out-of-box lighting.
• Playfulness: The collection encourages self-expression. The products come in base White Mist with the ability to customise using Pink Dawn and Green Flash accessories. Players can also show off their creative side with thousands of customisable lighting combinations available in G HUB with Aurora Collection signature lighting known as Play Moods.

Logitech G705 gaming mouse

Gaming with the G705 Wireless Gaming Mouse is such a pleasure. Not only is it pint-sized, but the mouse is also contoured for comfort and control with an intentional design to be inclusive of smaller hands. The mouse also features Lightspeed wireless, Lightsync RGB, and amongst other gaming technology, designed to help you beat your best no matter what genre of games you play.

I didn’t know the importance of having a mouse designed for smaller hands until I started using this little gem. The size and curved shape of the mouse make it so comfortable to use, and the fact that it has a sculpted thumb rest that I can easily reach is a true revelation. The mouse has six programmable buttons in total. It measures 39.4 mm x 68.1 mm x 105.8mm, weighs 85 grams and has a 40-hour battery life, even if you’re using the lightsync RGB lighting.

G713 gaming keyboard

This wired, compact TKL keyboard is also designed for comfort and comes included with a cloud-soft palm rest. It is also fully equipped with ethereal RGB lighting and your choice of GX mechanical switches. The keyboard is available in White Mist with additional colourway accessories sold separately. To put it simply, this gaming keyboard offers “low-key vibes with high-key performance”.

It’s the ideal gaming keyboard if you want something that fits into your chic, minimalist desk aesthetic at home and can be used for work and play. If you want to customise the keyboard further, then you can also switch out the top plate and keycaps with two available colours: Pink Dawn and Green Flash (these are sold separately. A trip into Logitech’s G Hub platfrom allows you to customise further with full control over DPI settings, RGB lighting, and the full array of button assignments and macro options.

The keyboard delivers on that super satisfying mechanical GX switches sound and because it isn’t wireless, the G713 is ‘always on’, allowing you to run your RGB lights until your heart’s content. It also offers a generous smattering of media keys and control buttons, like the scroll bar located in the upper left-hand corner, for adjusting the sound with ease. The cloud wrist rest accessory, while it seemed gimmicky at first, truly is a genius little extra that ups the ante comfort-wise. I love this little touch and will insist on this level of wrist comfort while gaming from now on.

The G713 measures 370.6 mm x 157 mm x 37.2mm, weighs 962.5g (with cable). It’s a lovely keyboard for typing as well as gaming, and its smaller size makes it great for more petite hands to navigate the keys when you’re under the crunch and need to move fast. Even on its default setting, the G713 feels smooth and accurate enough for even the most demanding games.

Price and availability

The Logitech G Aurora collection is now available in South Africa with the G705 wireless gaming mouse priced at R2,399 and the G713 wired gaming keyboard priced at R3,999.

While those prices are steep, if you’re sick and tired of the sea of black gaming accessories that dominates the gaming accessories market and are willing to pay a premium for comfort and chic design, then this will collection will no doubt appeal to you.