Razer Widow Essential Mechanical Gaming Keyboard for Ultimate Performance

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1. Donna Kicin Verified Buyer – 12 March 2024

   Amazing keyboard. Works well. Great for gaming too.
   

2. Kendall Tisinger Verified Buyer – 15 April 2024

   All right let me first start off by saying that I confidently am a Razer fanboy. I have the Razer Naga Trinity, the Razer Blackwidow essential keyboard, the Razer firefly V2, the Razer hammerhead True Wireless earbuds, and the Razer Krakens, with the Razer Headphone Base Station and Razer clip-on kitty ears for headphones on the way soon, so this may seem to be a biased review, but I can assure you by saying that I also have noticed the shortcomings that may come with this keyboard. TL;DR: It’s a nice keyboard with good value for money. I personally love the razer green clicky and tactile mechanical switches but they aren’t for everyone. Good for your first mechanical keyboard if you want a mechanical keyboard and don’t care about different types of switches. Let’s talk about build quality. Razer has a product line by product line RNG with certain products being better than others. One line of products can have a great build quality while others…. not so much. The Blackwidow in question, however, surpassed my expectations with its build quality. The frame of the unit is made from strong plastic that I can’t bend or find any flimsiness in. The keycaps themselves feel great to type on as my skinny white boy fingers find the keycaps perfectly sized and aren’t too big that it feels like you’re pressing on a dinner plate, nor are they too small where you need the dialing wand from the Simpson’s to use it properly. Each keycap has the letter or function on it transparent which allows the Chroma controlled RGB effect to really pop. Each key switch and keycap is perfectly spaced from one another, allowing fluent travel between keys for fast typing. The keycaps themselves are arranged row by row to have different heights than one another instead of being the same hight per row like other cheap keyboards, this allows me personally even MORE fluent typing as I am always finding keys with my fingers, much less looking at it. The home row is at a different height than the other two rows so it allows me to differentiate the rows by just feeling for it instead of having to look at the keyboard to make sure I’m hitting the right keys. The weight of the unit was something I did not expect. This beast is HEAVY. It’s heavier than any other keyboard I’ve ever used in my life. I don’t see that as a downside, nor as an upside. it’s just a fact of the product itself. The feet on the keyboard play a huge role in its build quality in my opinion. The feet are strong and not flimsy and I couldn’t break the feet off if I tried. No matter how hard you push the keyboard away from you, the feet will not unlatch from their open position, which is a good thing, and the rubber holds them in place. Value for money when it comes to things in my life is something that I do factor in when buying a product (yes. I know. I have an RGB mousepad that does nothing except make cool lights. Shut up) Normal Razer keyboards like the Huntsman, Huntsman elite, Blackwidow elite, and the Ornata allow you to customize which flavor of razer key switch you want. This keyboard only comes in one flavor of switches, the Razer Green clicky and tactile with the longest key travel in their line of switches at 8mm per keypress. The distance is really only noticeable if you have used other shorter switches or are just a pedantic f**k about everything. The Razer greens are a good switch. Fans of the Cherry MX Blue’s or White’s, the Kailh BOX Jade’s or BOX White’s, and the NovelKeys Sherbert switches will feel right at home here. There’s no wrist rest like on the higher tier Blackwidow, or a slot for one if you happen to have the wrist rest and not the keyboard for… some reason. One of the biggest draws to Razer is the RGB and the ability to have 16+ MILLION color combinations with their products. In the second review picture, I tried to fiddle with my camera settings to make the colors vibrant and that obviously didn’t work, but it’d be way more vibrant in person than in a picture anyway. Trust me and other reviews. Just because the RGB is illuminated by the key switches and not backlit itself, doesn’t mean the colors aren’t uber vibrant, even in high light conditions. This keyboard is compatible with Synapse 3, which allows you to create as many weird color combos to your heart’s content or find other cool ones people have made and posted online. This keyboard is all but featureless with the ability to customize colors as well as record OTF (on-the-fly) macros. If you’re playing a MOBA and you have an alt ability that requires 2 or even 3 keys pressed at the same time to activate, you can record it in the Synapse software OR record it mid-game with the keyboard itself. The macro will be bound to the keyboard key you set and stored in the keyboards internal memory which means that if you decide to use someone else’s PC or get a new one, the macro (along with your color combination) will be able to be used on a different PC flawlessly. There are cons to this keyboard however and I can’t ignore them forever. For starters, the keyboard is ONLY available in Razer Green switches so if you prefer the browns, yellows, or the new optical purples, well that’s tough. People can be very particular with the keys they want. I prefer clicky and loud keypresses because I like feedback with my keypress and the greens provide that for me. Other people like really linear and quiet keypresses. You won’t find that here. The other issue that annoys me slightly is that there are no physical standalone media control keys for volume and changing songs back and forth. This keyboard has an FN key that allows access to secondary functions on the F key row, much like a laptop. This is improved by the fact that when the FN key is pressed, the function keys that control media functions and macro recording are illuminated in white while the rest of the keyboard goes dark. I personally love that they did this as a quality of life improvement with the keyboard itself, and that white backlight function is instantaneous when it happens. Overall, I love this keyboard and I would absolutely recommend it to anyone looking for an inexpensive mechanical keyboard, their first Razer product, or just looking for that Razer flair in a keyboard that doesn’t have things that they won’t actively use. This keyboard emphasizes the phrase “You get what it says on the tin” and I personally love it.

   

3. kingpinn Verified Buyer – 6 June 2024

   If you wanna be the best. buying the best tool isn’t choice. It is must thing to do.

   

4. William Verified Buyer – 20 August 2024

   It feels nice and sturdy. Mine arrived with the space bar detached and I had to struggle a bit to put it back in place, but once I manged to put it back (quite easy) it hasn’t given me any issues.
   

5. Hathairat Verified Buyer – 19 September 2024

   Good
   

6. Jr S. Verified Buyer – 15 January 2025

   The keyboard and mouse works well in mac mini 2018, but cannot customized the lighting settings. It seems Razer stopped the support for mac (Catalina).
   

7. Umiforgot Verified Buyer – 2 February 2025

   I always like this brand when buying gaming computer hardware. This is a great light up keyboard.
   

8. RHONDA SIMMONS Verified Buyer – 5 February 2025

   I really like this keyboard. I have had mine for about 4 months now and it has never given me any issues. I did have to snap the spacebar back into place but other than that it was really easy. I did have to set up the Razer Synapse which is pretty user friendly. You can read other reviews as to why i did. it has perfect response time and feels very nice and clicky. 4.9 stars (bc of the synapse thing)
   

9. Alfred Verified Buyer – 22 February 2025

   Keyboard works but not able to lock the lights on while booting up. no customer service unless you purchase a plan. The keyboard had missing parts but by the time I noticed the customer service was shut off. This company does not deserve loyalty and I recommend to not purchase their products.
   

10. HG Verified Buyer – 1 April 2025

    I bought this to replace a Red Dragon mechanical keyboard I had been using, and I’m loving it. The keys feel extremely stable in comparison, with none of the wobbliness I experienced on other boards. Each press results in a loud, satisfying click and the amount of force required feels just right. No accidental key presses but still very easy to type smoothly.

    Playing games and tying are both easy and comfortable and the whole keyboard feels solid and well designed.

    The backlighting is green-only but it looks good and you can adjust the intensity. There are a lot of other macro options and things with the Razer software but I haen’t done much with those yet.
    

11. Erick Garzon Verified Buyer – 10 April 2025

    The keyboard is solid, it feels very good and the keys are 10/10, however, the lightning effects are poor. Just static and breathing. I think razer could implement more effects on this keyboard, specially because it need synapse 3.