Huge Workshop library of free games
Mentioned in ~1 in 3 positive reviews
“You have almost every board game recreated by the community on Workshop.”
Steam review · 63.7 h played ↗
Tabletop Simulator
Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.
Overwhelmingly PositiveOverwhelmingly Positive · 96%Berserk Games2015Board Game · Sandbox · Simulation
The verdict
A physics sandbox that lets you play almost any board or card game online via a huge free Workshop. Skip it if you lack friends to play with or dislike clunky controls and bugs.
Great for
Friend groups, especially long-distance ones, playing board games, TCGs, wargames or RPGs online
Main risk
Bare-bones without friends and Workshop; bugs, loading failures and clunky controls can ruin sessions
What players love
Play with far-away friends
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews
“Perfect for board games with friends across the country -- nay, the world!”
Steam review · 1038.6 h played ↗
Great for MTG, Warhammer and TTRPGs
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews
“you can play trading card games like MTG and Pokemon just by finding a table on the workshop. You can import ANY deck you want.”
Steam review · 36.5 h played ↗
Great value for the price
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 positive reviews
“This is the single highest money to game value on this service”
Steam review · 630.5 h played ↗
Easy tools to create and prototype games
Mentioned in ~1 in 9 positive reviews
“Great for prototyping games. I had an idea for a tabletop game and could actually playtest it with friends”
Steam review · 32 h played ↗
Try games before buying them
Mentioned in ~1 in 14 positive reviews
“Test games extensively before you buy them, get previews of games being crowdfunded pre-release.”
Steam review · 32.8 h played ↗
What players complain about
Paid mods and Creator Marketplace backlash
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews
“This game is currently a ticking time bomb at the moment.”
Steam review · 28.2 h played ↗
Bugs, crashes and instability
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews
“Autosave fails and then you lose 4 hours of game time to an arbitrary crash.”
Steam review · 21.9 h played ↗
Updates broke the game
Mentioned in ~1 in 7 negative reviews
“Rollback your ♥♥♥♥♥♥ 'codebase cleanup' so we can play the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ game you morons.”
Steam review · 367.9 h played ↗
Images and mods fail to load
Mentioned in ~1 in 9 negative reviews
“I've spent more times trying to get assets to download than actually playing anything.”
Steam review · 120.7 h played ↗
Unintuitive controls and awful VR
Mentioned in ~1 in 11 negative reviews
“You need a PhD just to figure out how to grab things.”
Steam review · 0.6 h played ↗
Needs friends; poor solo and public play
Mentioned in ~1 in 19 negative reviews
“It was not clear that you cannot play solo.”
Steam review · 0.1 h played ↗
System requirements
From the Steam store page
Steam Deck: UnsupportedController support3 GB
Minimum
OSWindows 10 64-bit 21H1+.
ProcessorSSE2 instruction set support.
Memory4 GB RAM
GraphicsGraphics card with DX10 (shader model 4.0) capabilities.
Storage3 GB available space
OSWindows 10 64-bit 21H1+.
ProcessorSSE2 instruction set support.
Memory4 GB RAM
GraphicsGraphics card with DX10 (shader model 4.0) capabilities.
Storage3 GB available space
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