Who we are

For fourteen years, L’heure du jeu was the den of Rennes’ board gamers. Xavier Berret founded it in 2012, at 11 boulevard Magenta: shelves packed to bursting, tables that refused to hand back the dice before closing time, and that ritual “come on, one last round” that always dragged on a little.

Axel Céréloz, now the manager, knows the place from the inside: he used to work here. He moved to Rennes in January 2025 with a plan to open his own board game bar, joined the team in January 2026 — and the takeover was settled while he was being hired. “I learnt a great deal at L’heure du jeu… but I needed to make a clean break, to offer my own bar and make it mine.” Hence the new name: the lineage is owned, the page is turned.

What changes: the sign above the door, a selection of craft beers in the fridge, and above all the pricing. Access to the game library is now 2 €, instead of 4 € per person per hour. “Simpler bookkeeping, and playing time is no longer tied to the pressure to order.” What stays: the address, the game library, advice at your table, and a line-up built around games.

The whole idea fits in one sentence: “a place centred on the world of games, not on anything else.” Open to gamers and to the merely curious who came in for a beer or a mocktail. Le Dernier Tour — where everything is at play.