Logitech G305 Review – Ultra Cheap Wireless Gaming Mouse in 2026

This is the Logitech G305, a wireless gaming mouse that I paid just £30 for, making it one of the most popular gaming mice on Amazon, and I can see why! The idea that you can buy an entire good quality wireless gaming mouse for a couple month’s worth of game pass seems incredibly appealing, and I’m happy to say that it’s great! Of course it’s worth diving a little deeper, so let’s do just that. 

First, a tour. In the box you get the mouse itself, a Duracell AA battery, and a fairly cheap feeling little USB A extender, clearly meant to take the USB dongle and sit on your desk for the lowest latency and most reliable connection possible. As for the mouse, that’s a pretty typical Logitech style with nice enough feeling black plastic, and a sleek, low profile design. You get a rubber scroll wheel, DPI button, status LED, and two buttons on the side, plus the sensor, power switch and a collection of tiny yet surprisingly effective PTFE skates on the bottom. If you slide the back half of the shell backwards you’ll reveal the cubby that fits the battery, and the little storage pocket that houses the USB dongle. This is the only way to connect the mouse to your system. There is no USB C port on the front – no USB port at all – so this can’t be used wired, nor can you fit a rechargeable AA battery and have the mouse be the one to charge it. You can use rechargeable batteries with it, you just can’t charge them in the mouse. 

Looking at the side profile you can see just how low this thing is. It’s pretty tiny, easily fitting under my large hands. Being so small it’s pretty easy to palm, claw or fingertip grip it, whichever you prefer. It isn’t the most comfortable especially for long term use, but it’s more than good enough for gaming. The two buttons on the side are remarkably small, but reasonably well placed and supported, and have a nice enough tactile click to them. Not ground breaking, but not terrible either. I would note that the plastic is remarkably smooth and a little on the slippery side, although there is enough room on both sides to get a decent grip and negate that. Generally, this is a one-size-fits-all style that doesn’t cater to any specific hand size or grip style, but still mostly manages to make it work for anyone. That’s pretty impressive. 

Speaking of having to grip it well, right out the box you’ll likely be struck with just how lightweight it feels. Weighing in at 73.5 grams, that’s a decently light mouse! Until you remember the battery isn’t in there, and with the included standard AA battery installed it’s more like 95 grams. Subtract one or two for the USB dongle, it’s no featherweight – but it’s still decently light especially for a removable battery mouse! 

As for the sensor, that’s Logitech’s original HERO sensor, 12000 DPI, 400 inches per second of tracking, 40 G acceleration, and 1000 hertz LIGHTSPEED wireless connectivity. This should be perfectly fine, and I’m happy to report it is! We’ll come back to that in a second, first let’s talk clicks and latency. The left and right mouse buttons feel fine enough, although testing with my very own open source latency testing tool (available at OSRTT.com, link in the description below by the way!) it turns out to be a pretty slow mouse. One of the slowest I’ve tested, actually. To be clear, this isn’t deal-breaking performance, but it is worth knowing that you seem to be getting what you pay for. Whether this is debounce delay or just the switch, chip and wireless delay, it’s slow. Not unusable, but definitely slow. 

When it comes to actually gaming, well that’s actually pretty good. It glides well even with those tiny skates, and tracks really well. While the HERO sensor is pretty damn old at this point, it’s still more than good enough for an average gamer like me – and statistically, you too. It’s still light enough to flick around like mad, and it still manages to keep up with that, so that’s a good sign. I’d say that, as usual, I was the limiting factor in my accuracy here – or to put it in kinder terms to myself, this is good enough to not be a barrier to aiming well in games. That’s pretty much all you can ask for, so that’s great!

For just £30, I can’t really argue against this thing. I know some people would prefer a built in (lighter) battery, or even just a USB port to be able to charge rechargeable AA batteries instead, but for the money I can’t say I’m that bothered. It tracks well, feels comfortable enough, and should last 250 hours per AA. Not bad! The fact that this used to be a much more expensive mouse – £60 in 2018 – but now almost a decade later is still selling like hotcakes and is half that price, well that’s mighty impressive. This is not a high end mouse (anymore), but it is more than good enough for the entry level, and it’s priced appropriately. Even now, almost a decade later, the Logitech G305 is still a perfectly decent option.