Kreo Hive Wired Full Size RGB Backlight Gaming Mechanical Keyboard, Customizable RGB, Mechanical Switches, NKRO, Metal Volume Knob, 3 Color Keycaps (White-Purple, Brown Switch)

Well Built and Value for money
Great for Coding, Gaming as well as general use.Pros:- Red Switches- Premium Built quality- Compact design- Comfortable typing experience- The metal knob is fun and pretty useful- The RBG lighting is of good quality and in no way looks cheapCons:- ARGB would’ve been nice- A wireless mode would’ve been nice

This is the real deal 🤝
Presses are so easy, sound is minimal and feels soo good to type on it. Keyboard software functionality is awesome, brightness is decent everything is good considering the price point.

Great Keyboard without a doubt
I wanted a keyboard for my new home setup, I was using Archer techlab Mechanical keyboard for my work setup from past 7 months daily. It had blue clicky switches, so I wanted an another mechanical keyboard but my preference was towards red/brown switches, as I didn’t like the loud clicky sound of blue swritches. Since my Archer techlab keyboard was my first mechanical keyboard, I just went ahead with blue switches but later on realized it wasn’t something I wanted in my next keyboard.So, this time I went ahead with this Brown key switches and I like the sound it produces and I find it better than the blue switches. I recently have gone through the products of Kreo and ordered three products Kreo Hive 98 keyboard (for home setup), Kreo Hawk wired mouse (home setup) and Kreo Chimera Wireless mouse (office work purpose). This keyboard is the one I like the best among these three products.So I will break it down between the Pros and Cons:Pros:1. The Build Quality: The quality of the build materials are pretty solid, once the keyboard sit on the table the keyboard doesn’t move, even though it doesn’t weigh that much. The Archer techlab keyboard is much heavier than this and that is build like a tank, very heavy (more than 1 kg) and sturdy. Though this is not that heavy the build quality is well maintained.2. The Volume Knob: 1 thing I was looking while buying my new keyboard is the volume knob. As I was building a new home setup, having a volume knob is the most important thing in my checklist, as it allows me to turn off the music or keep the volume lower without moving my mouse or doing any extra steps. I love the volume knob and it’s construction material which is metal.3. The keycaps color combination: 1 thing I like about Kreo is they give this Black-Purple themed keycap combination, and I absolutely love it, it looks good and gives a very nice vibe to my whole setup.4. Typing experience: I like the typing experience in this keyboard, I like the sound it makes while typing. I can type a lot faster with minimal errors without looking at the keyboard.5. Keycap/Switch Puller: I love the fact that they have provided the keycap puller with the keyboard. I don’t have to buy an extra puller, this is a very intelligent decision from Kreo.So-so things:The Software: The Software is alright in my opinion, but I think this can be improved, atleast UI part. I like the control Kreo gives me with each key for lighting and changing it’s function, I can assign basic shortcut to any key in the software, but I think if they can give us the option to have different key shortcuts according to the software I am using, that will be a gamechanger for Kreo. Anyway, the software gets the job done, so I am keeping it in this so-so category.Cons:1. As I mentioned earlier, the volume knob was in the top of my checklist, I wanted it to play/pause the music, but instead it works a mute button while clicking it. And they don’t give us the option to change the click or even the volume knob function in the software, which is very frustrating to me. So, the Volume knob is actually only for volume. I would like if Kreo atleast give me the option to change the volume knob function in certain softwares like photoshop, where I can increase or decrease the layer opacity with the volume knob. Or atleast change the click to play or pause instead of mute.2. The cable is very cheap: the cable they provided is the worst type C cable I got. They are charging 3k for this keyboard and giving us such cheap quality cable, they atleast could have given us braided type c cable. Atleast the cable is removable and I can give a pass on this one as I can always replace the cable. But this is a miss from kreo, they should provide a better cable with this keybaord.3. Even though they have provided a switch puller, I won’t take the risk of breaking the switches in the process. I have seen some modding with this keyboard and everyone is saying that the pulling the switches are not easy and they might break in the process. So, I guess Kreo needs to work on this part.Overall verdict is for my home system this keybaord makes perfect sense. The things I do with my home system like a few photoshop work, document editing, web browsing, this keyboard does the job and it does look good with the setup. I am following Kreo’s launches closely and it is very new indian brand. I am exicited to see a good Indian brand growing up, and hoping they will support the products they have released for a long time in terms of software and after sales.I haven’t done any gaming with this keyboard so can’t comment on the gaming performance.

About product
The keyboard is good but after using for 4-5 days the K button has stopped working and I have tried to contact product support for the help but didn’t find the correct or easy way to contact them