Tabletop Simulator
BANGER · Multiplayer · 2015
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $19.99.
- Length
- 9.6h
- Value
- $2.08/hr
- Reviews
- 96% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Graphics card with DX10 (shader model 4.0) capabilities., 3 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Tabletop Simulator is the only simulator where you can let your aggression out by flipping the table! There are no rules to follow: just you, a physics sandbox, and your friends. Make your own online board games or play the thousands of community created mods. Unlimited gaming possibilities!
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
December 2014 is where it bottomed out, at $8.99. It has been discounted 63 times in the 12 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 9 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 9 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 91 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. The nearest things to it, Tabletopia (free, scores 10) and Chess Ultra ($12.99, scores 37), are both worse buys on this math.
18 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2024 to September 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 490 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 434 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 75 percent of the 2,724 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 9.6 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 1225, 128 times as much.
It came out 11 years ago and 5.0K were still playing it at the last check.
The drop-off
80% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
5,021 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Yeah, it's pretty good if you like board games and have friends away and/or can't afford to buy all the last cool board games physically.
Grab some friends, peruse the workshop for some games you want to play, and have fun. Pretty much any game you can think of has been ported into Tabletop Simulator with painstaking detail via the workshop, usually with some quality of life mechanics that make setup waaay easier. It's board games, but online! Just get it man!
Me and my Muslim brothers and sisters hop on to do our salah together. Physics engine is solid, mods are endless, and it brings the crew together online. May Allah (SWT) bless this game and everyone who made it. Best virtual hangout + worship setup. Highly recommended! WALLAH ITS GOOD, I SAY I SAY WALLAH IT IS GOOD! BLESSINGS BE UPON THEM I SAY. MASHALLAH I SPAWN IN THE RICKS, the pickle ricks during prayer...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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Tabletop Simulator scores 91/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/286160/tabletop-simulatorThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 12, price as of Sep 24.
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