Eureka Ergonomic Axion Gaming Chair Review: Easy Assembly, Everything Else is Awful

Let’s not waste time. This was easy to build. The good ends there. I’ll give credit where it’s due: assembling the Axion was straightforward and quick, “it took about 15 minutes to build” tomsguide.com and I agree with Tom.

From the moment you sit down, the Eureka Axion Gaming Chair goes from “maybe this will be okay” to “what in the plastic hell is this?” so fast it’ll give your neck whiplash, which is fitting, because the headrest might literally cause that.

Flimsy Headrest That Won’t Stay Put

The Axion’s headrest is the most wobbly thing I’ve ever experienced. It advertises a “4D” adjustable headrest, but none of those dimensions include staying in place. The headrest has multiple locking notches for height/angle – except they DO NOT LOCK. Even the slightest pressure from your head causes it to slip. Literally, just resting your head makes it drop! One frustrated owner described it best: **“The headrest is infuriating… it’s too easy to knock out of place. Even placing your head on it is enough to change the adjustment in some way.” – reddit.com

That exactly matches my experience. You set the headrest where you want it, lean back, and immediately it slides down, jabbing its hard plastic edge into your neck. Every time I tried to relax, my head would fall back suddenly as the headrest gave way. It’s an ergonomic nightmare – instead of supporting you, the damn thing actively sabotages you.

Adjusting the headrest is a cruel joke: the notches are finicky and if you overshoot the position, you have to start over. Even when you do snap it into a notch, any movement will knock it loose again. A reviewer from FullCleared noted the same finicky behavior, saying the headrest uses notched settings and “slides back if too much pressure is applied.” – fullcleared.com

In other words, this headrest utterly fails at its one job – staying put to support your head. It’s so bad that it effectively has no headrest because you can’t trust it to remain in position. An “adjustable” headrest is pointless if it won’t hold an adjustment for more than a few seconds! Want to relax? Too bad. Any shift in posture, any breeze, any subtle sigh of resignation from your soul will cause this sad excuse for a headrest to dislodge and jab you. There is no point adjusting it, because it will not stay adjusted. It is the most rickety piece of hardware I’ve ever seen in a supposedly premium chair.

Lumbar and Back Support: Sinks Like a Stone

The chair touts an “independent” lumbar piece that you can slide up/down and in/out to fit your back.

In theory that sounds great; in practice it’s a flimsy mess. Just like the headrest, the lumbar support does not stay in place. The mechanism has very little tension, so the moment you lean back against it, it slides out of position with a pathetic click. As one owner reported, “the lumbar support leans back every time you sit on it” – reddit.com

The split back design sounds futuristic until you realize it means when you adjust one part, another falls apart. Adjust the upper back? Boom, lumbar slips. Shift your weight while sitting? Click click slump. Sneeze? Whole chair breaks. The whole thing cascades like a stack of Jenga blocks getting hit by a toddler on a sugar high.

Even the recline fails. No tension knob. Free-float or locked solid. That’s it. One Redditor said it best: “You can have it free, which is too light, or fixed at an angle, with no leeway.”

I thought I was going to flip backwards. Then I locked it and felt like I was in a medieval torture chair. Great options!

The Seat: Paper-Thin Sadness and Springs

Let’s talk about the seat cushion. Actually, let’s call it what it is: a spring-loaded mattress from the 1980s that someone forgot to finish building.

Not mesh. Nope. A spring-loaded cushion with the soul of a busted motel mattress.

The moment you sit: bottoms out. You hit the base, you feel the springs in your butt.(this is not the fun buttstuff) And then comes the crinkle. Not a satisfying sound. No, it sounds like a diaper. So many metaphors here I will avoid…

The cushion fabric is so thin you could probably rip it with denim. This isn’t just uncomfortable. It’s hostile.

Don’t own cats or any animal by the way, the diaper seat collects hair like Pokémon cards.

Mesh So Tight It Looks Pre-Torn

Where the mesh is used, it’s stretched like it owes someone money. Some areas already have visible stretch marks and look like they’re ready to rip.

Instead of ergonomic support, you get pressure points. Hard plastic and metal frames pressing into your body. Thanks for the sciatic nerve damage, Eureka.

The irony? The mesh itself feels nice to the touch. But the frame it’s stretched across is such a torturous death trap that any comfort is immediately canceled out by the bruises.

One Bright Spot: The Armrests

In a shocking twist, the armrests are… not garbage.

They adjust easily, stay in place most of the time, and don’t feel like they’re about to snap off. They even have semi-solid locking points. Don’t get me wrong, they still move a little on their own now and then, but compared to the chair’s everything else, these feel like throne-level stability.

So congrats, Eureka. You made armrests. The rest of the chair? Still a rolling ergonomic crime.

Looks Like a Gamer Chair? Nah. Looks Like a Toy

Let’s talk looks. You want subtle, stylish, office-appropriate? Too bad.

This thing comes in bright-ass blue, slime green, or neon red. It looks like it was designed by a 12-year-old who just discovered RGB lights. I wanted the black version to tone it down a bit… but guess what? It’s always “sold out.” Probably because that’s the only one anyone over the age of 16 would even consider.

The plastic design language is just… confused. Weird angular panels, “cool” gamer lines that serve no purpose, and fins that look like they were stolen off a knockoff Transformers toy. It’s needlessly bulky. The whole chair takes up more space than it deserves. If you’re short on room or taste, this is not your friend.

Always on “Sale”: Shady Marketing and Questionable Claims

Alright, now let’s get to the real rage fuel.

The chair is always on sale. Every time you visit the site, it’s on a “FLASH SALE” or “LIMITED OFFER” or “ENDS IN 3 HOURS” deal. Spoiler: it never ends. It’s a perpetual fake discount tactic, plain and simple. It’s never really $399.99. It’s always around $369.99. They’re just trying to trigger that impulse buyer who thinks they’re scoring a deal. It’s cheap psychology, not a real discount.

Even worse? They plaster the site with fake-ass endorsements. The Axion’s product page has the nerve to say:

“The best office chair for gaming” — CNET

Except… CNET never said that about this chair. They once praised a different Eureka chair, maybe a desk, in an entirely different context. But they never reviewed the Axion. There’s no actual quote, no link, no source. Just a logo and a lie.

This isn’t an editorial review. This is affiliate bait bullshit. The kind where sites list 10 random chairs on Amazon, slap on a few keywords like “ergonomic” or “gaming,” and collect referral money from suckers who don’t dig deeper. That quote exists to manipulate you.

A Rebranded Clone of Hbada’s Disaster

Look familiar? It should. This chair is nearly identical to the Hbada E3(my “glowing review here“) Same parts. Same design. Same awful experience. Even the Hbada site looks like a template copy of Eureka’s.

Guess what? That chair is also perpetually on sale. Also overhyped. Also trash.

Which tells me: these are likely mass-produced in China under a generic design, then slapped with different brand names for quick cash grabs. You’re not buying innovation. You’re buying a template of disappointment.

Let’s break it down:

Easy to assemble. That’s the last good thing.
Headrest: Doesn’t lock, constantly collapses.
Lumbar/Back: Slides and adjusts itself to the worst positions.
Recline: No tension adjustment. All or nothing.
Seat: Springs. Crinkling. Pain.
Frame: Mesh tearing. Hard plastic stabbing you from all sides.
Design: Looks like a rejected Hot Wheels prototype.
Marketing: Fake sales, fake quotes, fake praise.

This chair isn’t a product. It’s a lesson. A glowing, wobbly, overpriced lesson in what happens when a company throws all its budget at marketing and none into actual design or quality control.

I’ve reviewed some bad chairs before. Hell, this thing shares nearly the exact parts makeup of the Hbada E3. That alone should’ve been a red flag—but I wanted to give Eureka the benefit of the doubt. I shouldn’t have.

This is a recycled Chinese OEM design, lazily rebranded, wrapped in ugly plastic, and sold to unsuspecting buyers with manipulated quotes and fake scarcity. If that doesn’t scream scam, I don’t know what does.

Hard pass. Zero stars. Send it back and burn it.

Chairs I CAN recommend:

Crandall Office Refurbished Leap V2 – My review: https://youtu.be/DkAwxvL4008
Herman Miller Aeron – My Review: https://youtu.be/2lMSDstvrM
Anthros (review soon)