The Best Indie Game Stores Around the Bay Area By Jan 25, 2021 Running out of ideas about how to spend your quarantine free time? How about a new board game to play or a puzzle to puzzle over? At these independent shops in the Bay Area game, you'll find new offerings like Betrayal at House on the Hill, classics like chess, and everything in between. Gamescape SF and Gamescape North The OG of San Francisco gaming, the Lower Haight's Gamescape is packed with games and puzzles to satisfy just about everyone. In addition to classic and newfangled board and card games, this store has brain teasers, models, word games and trivia, not to mention jigsaw puzzles galore. More serious gamers will find what they're looking for in Gamescape's collection of Magic: The Gathering cards and RPGs, and there are plenty of kid-friendly and cooperative games for households who'd rather work together than declare a victor.