As gaming keyboards inundate the market, they're going to need to stand out to grab potential buyers' attention. Rocking a 60% form factor, Bluetooth, and cool keyswitches, the icing on the cake that makes this keyboard rise to the top are its slick cyberpunk neon keycaps. It's time for the Epomaker Akko Neon 3061 to shine.

The Akko 3061 is a small keyboard, with the elusive 61-key layout, giving you tons of extra room on your desk, while trimming the form to only the bare necessities. No arrow keys can be a little irksome, or at least until you learn that a second layer exists and gives you access to arrow keys by holding the FN key. Doing so can be a little awkward to adjust to at first, but it gives you the best of both worlds: the awesome 60% size with the arrow keys for gaming and the F-row keys as well.

Custom keycaps are one of the most expensive factors in the niche keyboard market, and that's the absolute best feature of the 3061. The keycaps are PBT, or at least 85% PBT, and have a nice feel to them,; they're thick with a good texture. Keycaps lining the outer edges are just a shade darker and have red-colored font, while keys in the center are brighter, with sky-blue font. Since they're PBT, you won't have to worry about those nice-looking legends fading away, and they won't get greasy or slick over time like ABS keycaps do. As an added bonus, Epomaker throws in a ton of extra keycaps, including a red spacebar, some cutesy Akko symbol caps, and F-keys amusingly enough, as the keyboard doesn't have an F-key row, unless you want to replace the number row with them.

Epomaker offers five different types of Gateron switches for this board: pink, orange, green, white, and yellow. Each are unique and bring some cool typing experiences to the table--if you value smooth, linear switches, then the yellows are a fantastic option, while oranges have tactile travel, and greens are just heavier blues, making for a super loud, super satisfying typing experience. Both typing and gaming on the 3061 are good; you've got decent stabilizers and not much chatter, but a bit of a harsh feeling when you hit the keys too hard as if the case is a little too light. Despite working perfectly, mine also had a very odd rattling noise inside, which makes the keyboard's internals come off as a little cheap and flimsy. 

Tech Specs

• LAYOUT: 61 Keys
• LIFESPAN OF SWITCH: About 50m times of clicking
• KEYCAPS: 85% double shot PBT keycaps
• CONNECTIVITY: Bluetooth 5.0 wireless or wired with included USB cable, dual modes
• ANTI-GHOST KEY: NKRO
• FULL KEYS PROGRAMMABLE: Yes
• BATTERY CAPACITY: 1800mAh
• KEYBOARD SIZE: 292mm*101mm*37mm
• WEIGHT: About 0.5kg
   

These days, there's plenty of 60% keyboards on the market, and ones that do plenty of cool things. The Akko 3061 doesn't compare to say, the Anne Pro 2 or the Ducky line of keyboards in terms of build quality, but if you're looking for a cute wireless keyboard with fun switches and even funner keycaps, then the 3061 is a good keyboard that'll get you through gaming sessions reliably. Should you only be interested in those keycaps, then Epomaker fortunately sells them on their own for $59.99 for a full-size set. If you're in need for a good starter keyboard, this is a good one, but I think if you've already got a high-end gaming keyboard, then you should grab the keycaps and trick out your keyboard yourself.