$14.99Tabletop Playground Every board game, one table
Play, tweak and invent tabletop games with friends online or in VR, with physics that feel like the real thing.
Is Tabletop Playground worth it?
Tabletop Playground is worth it if…
- you have a friend group that never agrees on which board game to play
- you want to recreate a house-ruled version of a classic or invent your own game
- you play war-games and want proper measuring, formations and turn history
- you like tinkering, scripting and sharing your creations with others
- you want a tabletop night that works in VR as well as on a screen
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A table that seats sixteen
Save a game mid-session and pick it up later, so a long campaign does not have to be finished in one evening. Join a lobby, pass pieces across the table, roll the dice and get on with the round. The game is built for playing with friends or with strangers across the world, and mods you are missing download with a single press of a button before you join. One honest note: the player base is smaller than the older tabletop simulators, so it shines brightest when you bring your own group.
Build your own games
The in-game editor is where creators stay. Adjust the rules of a classic until it plays the way you want, or forge an entirely original game from scratch. For anything more complex, JavaScript scripting handles custom rules and actions, so your only real limit is what you can think up. One player rebuilt their own version of Settlers of Catan in a few hours of tinkering and already had the next project planned. When you are happy with what you made, share it through mod.io, with cross-platform and cross-store mod support for your creations.
Made for serious war-gamers
This is one of the few digital tables built from the ground up with war-gaming and niche games in mind. You get specialized tools most simulators never bother with: arrange units into formations, measure distances and angles precisely, check the movement and dice roll history of every turn, and set up custom measure units for the game you are playing. If your evenings involve hundred-unit battles and rules that fill a binder, these tools turn a fiddly bookkeeping job into something quick, and digital war-gaming becomes genuinely practical instead of a compromise.
Physics you can feel
Pieces behave like real objects. Pick up a card, slide a chess piece, hand a token across the table, and everything moves with a weight and snap that makes the small actions satisfying in themselves. The controls are responsive whether you play on a screen or in VR, with or without motion controllers. The table itself sits in detailed 3D locations built in Unreal Engine 4, cosy spaces with game pieces modelled properly, so a session feels closer to sitting at a real table than to clicking through a menu.
Can you play it solo?
Can you play it solo?
Yes. You can play alone, whether that means a quiet game of chess against the table's physics or testing a ruleset you are building in the editor. Solo time is also the natural place to learn the tools before you bring a group in.
What games are included?
Classics like chess, backgammon and poker are there to play out of the box, and beyond that you browse and download community-made games and mods from mod.io inside the game. The selection grows as creators publish more, and anything missing you can build yourself.
Does it work in VR?
Yes, with and without motion controllers. The same physics and controls carry over, so you can stand at the table and physically pass pieces, or stay on a regular screen if that suits the evening better.
Can you stop a game halfway?
Yes. Games can be saved and resumed at any time, so a long war-game or campaign does not need to be squeezed into a single sitting. Pick it up next week exactly where the last dice roll left off.
