Glorious Model O 2 Ultralight Gaming Mouse Review

A Closer Look & Performance

As you can see, I have the wired version of the Glorious Model O 2, which comes with a colour-matched Ultra-flexible Ascended Cable, which is to say it’s a lightweight cable with a flexible yet durable paracord-type sleeving.

The mouse, however, wow, just look at this thing, it really is GLORIOUS. As a brand, they always kill it when it comes to design, and the matte white ever so slightly textured surface looks absolutely stunning, while some light grey details provide a nice and rather subtle offset. Of course, all this will be in contrast to dazzling RGB when I plug it in.

Down the left side of the mouse, there are two navigation buttons with moderately heavily sprung switches, that are thankfully very directly mounted for a near-instant click response. So many mice have muddy-feeling side buttons, so this is a nice change of pace.

As you can see, the mouse has been on a bit of weight shedding kick, but when the mouse is coming in at 59 grams, easily one of the lightest mice I’ve ever tested, then it’s totally working! Honestly, you can blow on it and push it across your desk easily enough, this mouse moves like it’s floating. This is nuts, as my Model D Minus Wireless is fast, but it feels like it’s stuck in mud compared to this.

This mouse is ambidextrous, to a certain degree. The body design is symmetrical, and interesting it’s comfortable both ways too, I often find symmetry in a mouse results in neither side fitting right. However, the slightly larger and wider design is very accommodating here. Have you spotted the main problem though? No side buttons on the right! So left-handed users are getting a limited experience.

I love the overall style though, the branding is subtle, with the flowing curves and subtly angled plastics towards the nose. A lot of thought has gone into making a mouse that not only looks amazing but feels really comfortable and natural in your hand.

The mouse fans out towards the front, providing you with longer and wider mouse buttons that have a really gentle curve so your finger naturally sits in the clicking sweet spot, ensuring perfect performance every time.

There is absolutely no pre-travel, so a push results in an instant click, and even if you push hard, there’s no post-travel; nothing but switch action all the way!

The mouse wheel is huge, and a little wider than most, with deeper ridges and a spoked design to save weight. It’s very accurate too, if not overly fast. It’s very quiet when turned and has a soft notched feel so you can do accurate weapon swaps, but no matter how fast you spin it, it’ll stop dead the moment you stop pushing it. It also has a really sharp and crispy click when pressed, lighter and clickier than you’ll usually find on a wheel, but it’s great as a quick knife-you-in-the-face-button for CS:GO, or mid-button jump.

There’s a button behind the wheel too, which allows you to go through profiles easily enough, but just like most modern gaming mice, it’s all fully programmable anyway, so you can set things up however you like. For me, I pretty much never change DPI these days, I set it just how I like it and leave it alone. It’s worth checking out their software too, it’s one of the better solutions I’ve seen, and it’s worth updating the firmware before you use it anyway.

Hey, look, there’s a little Glorious guy in the middle of the mouse!

Oh and again this mouse is so light, I had to catch it as it was floating away… OK, I’m exaggerating a lot here, but damn it really is as light as a 59-gram feather.

On the underside, there are four blue tabs protecting those lovely PTFE feet, just remember to remove them!

The feet are 100% PTFE G-Skates, and combined with the lightweight, they’re what make it glide like a Water Boatmen. You can take that update sticker off too, but it’s not in the way if you wanted to leave it. At the heart of this mouse, however, is the Glorious BAMF 2.0 Optical Sensor, and it’s an absolute unit. It’ll track at a truly insane 650 IPS, with 50G acceleration and up to 26,000 DPI, making it one of the most advanced and powerful sensors on the market right now.

It doesn’t matter if you’re a lazy, beer-drinking, popcorn-munching cave dweller like myself, or a lean, mean eSports fighting machine like all those kids I seem to get paired against in Apex, the Model O 2 is bloody fantastic. By far one of the finest, fastest and lightest, and most accurate gaming mice I’ve ever had the pleasure of using. Seriously, it’s just that good. However, I have used the Model D Minus Wireless mouse (pictured below on the right) for so long, I’d be tempted to get the wireless version of the Model O 2, but at £40 more, I could understand why you may want the wired version.

Overall though, the aesthetics, the size and weight, the hardware, and the RGB are all top of their game here.