Ragnok Ergostrike7 Review – Ergo Gun Mouse With Recoil?!?!

This is the Ragnok ErgoSTRIKE7, and with this you’re going to be the hottest kid at the range. With single and rapid fire modes, a PAW 3395 optical sensor for peak accuracy when firing, and a built in battery for fully wireless operation. With the ideal ergonomic grip for maximum feel and performance. You can even customise it to your heart’s content, and what precision weapon like this isn’t complete with some RGB lighting? This is the ErgoSTRIKE7.

Ok, but, like… what’s it actually like to use? Amazingly, it’s actually a lot of fun! I do love a good product that doesn’t take itself too seriously, and this is squarely one of those. The base of this is actually just a pretty typical ergonomic mouse. You’ve got all the typical controls, left and right clicks, a scroll wheel, and even back and forward buttons – plus a double click button they label as the “fire” button – but at least the left click has been molded to fit the theme. Actually gripping the thing is remarkably comfortable. It’s genuinely comfy right out the gate – it’s definitely on the larger side so me with my size large hands fit this well, but smaller hands may not have quite as nice a time. As always with mice reviews, your mileage may vary. Still, for me, this is super comfortable.

The big catch though is the learning curve. If you’re a seasoned PC gaming veteran, you are going to struggle to do anything but flail with this thing at first. Changing your muscle memory from flicking your wrist side-to-side to more up-down takes time and patience. Despite that learning curve, once you get the hang of it, it’s actually really comfortable! The left click trigger is right where you’d want it, right click for aim is amazingly intuitive, with only the scroll wheel being a little tricky to navigate. Genuinely, this is super comfortable.

The tracking side is also damn good – a PixArt PAW 3395 is no joke of a sensor – with up to 26000 DPI, 650 inches per second of tracking speed and up to 50G of acceleration, it tracks remarkably well. Well, when you aren’t using the full auto recoil, anyway. Of course we should talk about that recoil – that’s the most fun and ridiculous part of this thing after all. Looking at the top of the mouse, you’ll find both the recoil control switch, and what looks an awful lot like a lego brick. That’s because it is. The recoil works regardless of your game, which has some… interesting consequences. You can set it to 1X which ‘fires’ once per click, regardless of how long you click, or you can set it to 2X which is full auto. So long as you hold the trigger down, this thing clacks away. As for the lego brick, well that’s for your Lego Minifigures, obviously! Funnily enough, adding the minifigure dampens the sound of the recoil, although the figure doesn’t stay on too well. Obviously it doesn’t do wonders for your ability to track enemies, especially in full auto. It does shake your hand a decent amount, but this isn’t trying to be the ultimate pro esports mouse, it’s a bit of fun and it sure meets that criteria. 

I did do some latency testing with some interesting results. Just looking at the mouse’s results on its own, amazingly the recoil doesn’t add any latency! The biggest catch though is that by default the mouse has an 8 millisecond debounce time set in their software, which means these results are really, really slow. If you set it to 0ms, you suddenly get much better results. Like, 15 milliseconds, to 6 milliseconds. Big difference! Sticking those results in the field… yeah this isn’t fast. It’s still twice a good mouse even with 0ms debounce time, but, again, it isn’t meant to. It’s fine, it’s perfectly usable, and a bit of fun.

All that culminates in a gaming experience that is truly like no other. It’s fun, playful, and just makes you grin when you do manage to get a kill while your mouse shakes up a storm. It’s a laugh, and kinda makes you feel like a kid just having fun again. No sweating, just laughs. This is not a good gaming mouse, at least by conventional standards, but it’s still a good mouse for the right person. I’ve shown this to a bunch of friends, and they’ve all had a good laugh with, and at, it. Everyone has smiled when they set it to 2X and pulled the trigger. Sure, there is novelty to it, and that novelty will likely wear off, potentially quickly, and by far the biggest catch of the whole thing is that it costs £100 and weighs 187 grams, which is a lot of money to spend on a novelty. But, if you have the spare cash… Well it’s a good bit of fun that otherwise is an average quality, but very ergonomic, gaming mouse. I don’t know that I’d buy it, but I’m glad I got to play with it.