Just For Fun Games

Just For Fun Games is a hobby game store at 3010 N Sterling Ave in Peoria, Illinois. It is the largest hobby game store in the Peoria area, built around board games, card games and miniature games in every genre. It is a single-location shop with extra room set aside for game play and meetings, which makes it a fit for players who want somewhere to sit down and play as well as shop.

What's on the shelves

The store is organized around four product areas.

Board games run from town-building and space-conquest designs to cooperative titles where a team survives a zombie outbreak or some other catastrophe. Many of the games include a single-player option, a useful thing to know for anyone shopping for solo play.

Role-playing games start with Dungeons & Dragons as the standard and extend to settings built on Norse mythology, talking animals and well-known pop culture properties, including Transformers and Conan the Barbarian.

Card games cover three tiers. Trading card games include Pokémon, Magic: The Gathering and Yu-Gi-Oh!, where every pack expands the game differently. Living card games are the counterpart: the expansion packs are static, so each pack is identical. General card games fill out the rest, from Red Dragon Inn and Ultimate Werewolf to Munchkin and other titles across larger genres.

Miniatures and models are a broad category here. Stock ranges from single figures for a role-playing session to large boxes for building an army. The store also carries six different paint lines along with glue, tools and the accessories needed to finish a project, so a painter can start and complete a build in one trip.

Play space and groups

The shop hosts a range of play-session groups, each open to the public and most of them free. The additional game space is what makes that work, with room for sessions and meetings alongside the retail floor.

Hours

The store is closed on New Year's Day, Easter, the Fourth of July, Thanksgiving and Christmas Day, and it generally closes early the day before each of those holidays.

The local scene

Several other collectible and hobby shops sit within a few miles in Peoria. Baseball Card City and Acme Comics & Books are each about 1.6 miles away, One for All Games is 1.7 miles out, Stooges Comics & Collectibles is 2.3 miles away, and Wendy's Creative Collections & Coins is 3 miles away. That makes an afternoon of store-hopping realistic, with Just For Fun Games as the stop for tabletop, miniatures and card play.