Tabletopia Reviews

It has an impressive interface, portability, game content and fancy web browsing but the thing that matters the most still lacks a lot, playability inside games like maneuver the objects, controls, simple automated options, etc.

I like virtual tabletops because I need to travel often and they are keeping me in touch with board game world and my friends. Tabletopia have a pretty big library of games and looking very nice. They have ambitious plans for workshop and I will be looking forward to it development because I just publish board game and would like to move it into online version on Tabletopia. So pros are: +Big library of games +Nice and simple workshop +Smooth, fast and comfortable interface Cons: -Big part of games are worker placement games and a lot of big titles that will be nice to have is unavailable -Connection problems, sometimes you just cannot start the game and need to restart all application over and over Most of this problems are because Tabletopia is in early access and they will fix them over time and we will have nice and enjoyable product :)

As of right now I can't recommend this. However, if you want to fund something with potential I would recommend that. This is the hardest choice I've come across in my video game lifetime. The ONLY 2 reasons this game can compete against Tabletop simulator is to A) fund the developers and B) have a easier time finding games with strangers. through a system of oranized games. However, this will burn a hole in your wallet, and it might burn a hole in it faster than you play board games and thats not cool. Board games take time and not being able to know how many board games I can play in a month really makes me feel sick buying a monthly purchase. Not only that, the speed of this game may not live up to it too. Regardless if the developers get 70% of the revenue (So I've heard). How do we know (OUR) favorite developers will tag along too? Some developers may still be completely against the digitilization of their products which makes me believe that this game will have severe limitation to games. I have made mods for games in Tabletop simulator and have even gotten permission to put the game on the workshop by lead designers of the game. Game designers love to at least get their game out there because they know that when people will like it a lot they will buy it. I own all the games I play on TTS and I use it as a tool to test, play around, modify, or rebalance games before and after I buy them with the click of a button. If someone doesn't buy a board game but plays it on TTS. Chance are they weren't ever going to buy it anyways. And if they did then the developers win. If they don't then its not a loss cause. This is always a problem in the digital age especially with things like Intellectual property. I believe this game will only be playable for people with Too much disposable income or people that just got really lucky were all their favorite developers have latched on to this.

Great Idea but subscription? Come on... that breaks it for me, I'd be willing to pay a decent one time fee to buy the game but not this subscription crap, it offers no good games really unless you pay but I'm not even willing to give the smallest amount to see what it unlocks when I have Tabled Top Simulator for a one time cost and all the popular games like power grid and stuff like that and when you can create your own and view the workshop for so much more extended content without the extra charge... on top of that Table Top simulator is VR enabled so, that makes the grade up another step even, and get this, it's only a one time charge of like 20? I think? Better to go with Table Top Simulator if I'm going to spend money on a table top thing...

The game doesn't even start. (It's just stuck on the "connecting" screen - I've tried it at least two times (after the game updated) and for quite a while. Nothing happens except for my laptop heating up.) I'll accept a lot of shortcomings when I get a game for free, but, you know, it should at least [i]start[/i]...

So, here's the thing about Tabletopia: for a while their Steam client ran like garbage and the best way to use it was to actually use Firefox with the Unity plugin. I think the majority of bad reviews came from this fact.The latest update seems to fix this, so hopefully more of the reviews will focus on the actual content of the platform, rather than the technical challenges. For me, it's an excellent platform and the subscription model is only required if you want to host games and a good chunk of the money you pay each month goes to the publishers of the games you play. I think that's a great way to get good games that are well put together onto the platform instead of the janky, pirated messes that you often find on TTS. That's not to say TTS is bad, but I do feel guilty firing up games that are breaking all kinds of copyrights. Pros: -Good UI, better than TTS in a lot of ways, not as good in others -Good model, you can play for free, host some games for free and only pay for premium features. -Almost all the games are tightly and professionally made. Middling: -Selection is not as good as TTS, but the quality is so much better and games like Terra Mystica and Scythe are amazing. Cons: -Bad Lobby System. It's not super hard to get connected to a game but sometimes people can't join after a game is started, you have to load in and out of the game and they made some UI "improvements" to it that were just as confusing as before. Overall, I have no reservations about recommending it. It still needs a little maturing but the rough edges are not deal breakers at all. For the record, most of my play time has been in Firefox, so my play time on Steam clocks in at about 10% of what it should be.

Get Tabletop Simulator instead. Tabletopia has dozens of pages of forgettable junk to scroll through, but not a single decent game that doesn't require a premium account, and of those, not a single game I'd be willing to pay for a premium account in order to access. Yes, Tabletop Simulator costs money up front, but the available games are in the much more navigable DLC and Workshop sections of Steam instead of an in-app store. The DLC is also pay-to-own instead of a limited duration 'premium subscription' model, which makes more sense given the way people play digital board games.

I just had to try it. In short: doesn't do anything that Tabletop Simulator doesn't aready do and anything it does and anything it does it does worse. It also feels more sluggish, the control scheme isn't good and it feels awkward to do basic things like grabbing multiple tokens from a single bag. Steam integration, an online profile and playing on browser just pasting a link to your friends is indeed a nice feature. I'd play both TTS and this if this was free2play and had to pay for DLC to play forever. But has SUBSCRIPTION! The devs are clearly out of their mind if they plan to charge monthly for something that another software already does better charging only once. Not to mention that if you want to create anything you have a very limited storage, a limited number of saved setups, a limited number of creations and if you want to have more space you have to pay more. Just stay away from this, TTS is just better in every single way. Just hoping things don't go as planned and the Tabletopia devs change their minds about their business model, only then this might be a viable choice. For now this is just unthinkable.

I am now paying a subscription fee and cannot find a way to get rid of it / I Had to pay $11.46 to play a game I bought on the 27th of December and just got charged another $14.36 on the 28th of December. Do not "Buy" this "Free to Play" Game. This is the worst experience I have ever had on Steam. I wanted to play a single Board game that I could not play without a subscription. I did not know that it was a subscription- I have never had nor would I knowingly get one., So I was foolish enough to think that I wasn't being tricked into getting a subscription. I had the game 1 day and payed 2 months subscription. So if you like subscriptions - buy it on the 1st or you'll get dinged again on the 29th. What a horrible way to treat a customer. I am really pissed off at steam for allowing this kind of extortion on their platform. BOOOO!

I don't know if these other reviews are trolling, don't understand the platform, or what, but this delivers. This is just like sitting around with your friends. Use discord to talk to each other and you are golden. Some people saying 'you have to get used to it', but other then the basic stuff (adjusting the camera mainly), everything is drag and drop. Maybe since I am a computer guys this was pretty intuitive, but I dont understand the other reviews complaints. This is even faster than most games as shuffling/drawing/dealing is instant, there is no setup or put away, among a lot of other benefits. I have NEVER experienced a game lasting longer on this platform than real life, its usually much shorter. You can try so many board games for FREE and with friends from all over the country. Also instead of using steam, you can use most browers directly from their website.