Tanuki Games

Tanuki Games is a tabletop retail store at 6929 Airport Blvd #134 in Austin, Texas, set up around board games, role-playing games and trading card games. It stocks Pokémon and Magic: The Gathering alongside a wide board game shelf that leans heavily on rare imports, and new product is priced at up to 30% off. It suits shoppers who want to browse a well-stocked tabletop store and buy to take home.

What's on the shelves

Board games are the store's core, and a good share of them are imports from around the world, including a dedicated run of games published or designed in Asia. Many of these titles are hard to find elsewhere in the United States. The inventory also covers role-playing games, with books and indie titles, and the store carries puzzles, toys and gift cards.

Trading card games sit on their own shelves. Pokémon and Magic: The Gathering are the two confirmed lines, and the store also stocks the Final Fantasy trading card game. Games are displayed with their fronts facing outward, so the shop browses easily.

Crowdfunded games

The store takes deposits on crowdfunded board games, which lets customers back a campaign through the shop. Once the pledge manager opens, staff contact the customer to customize the pledge, and when the game arrives the customer pays the remainder and picks it up. The final price of a crowdfunded game often stays unsettled until shortly before fulfillment, so the deposit stands in for a price until the cost is firm. Backing through the store saves at least some money compared with backing the campaign directly, before shipping.

Deposits are refundable until the pledge manager goes live. After that they cannot be refunded or moved to another purchase. The store orders more copies of each game than it takes deposits for, so a deposit placed after a pledge manager closes still puts a customer in line for the base game and a first look at any extras.

Store policies

Returns follow a few firm rules:

• Unopened board games and role-playing games in resalable condition can generally be returned within 30 days.
• Trading card game products cannot be returned, and trading card game preorders cannot be cancelled.
• Refunds to a credit card carry a 4% transaction fee, a cost the store passes along because the payment processor keeps its fee on the original sale. Store credit carries no fee, and the fee is waived when the return stems from the store's own mistake.
• A game with a missing component usually needs a replacement part from the publisher. Games from Asmodee, which includes Fantasy Flight, Days of Wonder and CMON, can be brought to the store for a replacement copy.

Shipping covers addresses within the United States, with no free shipping threshold. The shop is built for browsing and buying; floor space is given over to stock, so there are no open gaming tables.

Hours and getting there

The store sits in the Crescent Shopping Center, anchored by the Asian grocery 99 Ranch and the Japanese bookstore Kinokuniya, with restaurants and bakeries including Kura Sushi and 89 Degrees alongside.

The local scene

Several game and hobby shops sit within a couple of miles: Game Over Videogames is 0.7 miles away, Capstone Comics 1.2 miles, King's Hobby Shop 1.4 miles, Austin Books & Comics 1.5 miles and King's Hobby 1.7 miles. For a card show, Kenny's Collectibles Sports Card Show is about 5.2 miles away and next starts November 14, 2026, with another date on December 12, 2026. The ATX North Card Show, about 49.9 miles out, starts November 21, 2026.