NOTE: The keyboard was sent to me by Dareu for review, but my opinion will not be affected.

I've been using this keyboard mainly for my freelancing work and some gaming on the side (Mainly CS2), I have been sent their smaller counterpart the Cool60 before and with the same switches (Dareu's Ice Blades) the Cool68 is better in almost every way apart from the packaging and accessories which are 1:1 + the Cool68 software which is still fairly rough.

The built of the keyboard is robust, the keycap material wise are good for what it is (website listed it as PBT + PC but it feels kind of similar to the Cool60's PC keycaps) but the keycaps does look really good to the point where using RGB would be a waste of the keycap colors. I am a bit split with the glossy sides of the keyboard however, it pretty much reminds you that it is a gaming oriented keyboard and when they are on they do light up the keycaps they sit on.

The typing feel of this keyboard is great, I'm not a keyboard expert but feel wise it doesn't feel too light (35 ± 5g actuation with 50 ± 5g bottom force) with the typing experience being fairly smooth but nothing too special. Sound wise it is much better compared to the Cool60's loud snappy typing sound and by itself it sounds fairly smooth and with a nice "clack" to it. 

For gaming Dareu decided to bring back the "D.H.A" algorithm thingamajig as one of their selling points, and conveniently in the Cool68 the setting cannot be ticked on/off compared to the Cool60. The gaming experience is solid, I'd say comparable to the Cool60 but really helps that it's not as loud since I use open back headphones.

The RGB lighting as you can see in the pictures is very bright, however the letters on the Cool68 has a much better visibility with the lighting ramped up high and the colors themselves look really pretty(my phone camera doesn't do it justice sorry). I still prefer having them off but it's good to see that they made sure that the letters are more visible with RGB on.

The software for this keyboard is rough to say the least, the Cool68 has it's own seperate web driver software and for the RT settings in order to see which key has what settings you need to hover each keys to see what you set them at, also doesn't help that when you click the already setup keys the bottom interface doesn't follow the keys so if you click the key twice it will just reset said key that you pressed.

It's also very obvious that the software is directly translated from Chinese, which is fine but it could really use some work to make it at least good. The other settings such as lighting and macro settings works okay but for a gaming targeted keyboard they really need to work on their Rapid Trigger settings interface. The firmware at the very least works great out of the box so that's a plus.

Also for a small comparison I did purchase another keyboard The Pressplay Essential75 HE x Demon Slayer collab a week or two after using the Cool60 and used it for 2 months (pictured on the very last slide), typing wise the Pressplay keyboard were too light and built quality wise they creak when I press the case (doesn't creak when typing/gaming thankfully), the keycaps however feels better on the Pressplays (different material) and it has a knob, a beautiful knob.

Overall I think the keyboard itself is great, the build quality is very solid, the keycaps feels fine but look very pretty in person, and the typing experience felt good. However the software is pretty bad, sure it's faster than their all-in-one web driver but they really need to work on it. 

LINKS: [https://dareu.com/en-eu/products/dareu-cool68-magnetic-gaming-keyboard-hot-swappable-0-01mmrt-accuracy](https://dareu.com/en-eu/products/dareu-cool68-magnetic-gaming-keyboard-hot-swappable-0-01mmrt-accuracy)

Dareu Cool68 HE Review