Tabletop Playground

Tabletop Playground

Skip · Multiplayer · 2020 · Early Access

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 22, under the fair line, at $14.99.

Length
0.4h 1.7h to 100%
Value
$37.48/hr
Reviews
69% of 273 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

How to read this

Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
MonetizationNone
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. That earns a small credit unless Steam lists in-app purchases
Holding it back
Reviews69% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Reach10K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
Early accessUnfinished
Still in development, a small confidence discount until 1.0
For context
Value$37.48/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead
Refunds4 of 119 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

The modern digital tabletop game for fans and creators! Featuring deep customization and choice, enjoy more immersive tabletop sessions with friends than ever before. Build new rule sets for traditional games, play custom-made games by the community or create your own and share them with the world.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 760 or higher, 4 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

The value story

51 discounts in the 6 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

It is pricier than 76 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 64 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Tabletop Simulator ($19.99, scores 91) beats it on value, while it beats Tabletopia (free, scores 10).

More about Tabletop Playground

HowLongToBeat players log 0.4 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 2, 4.3 times as much.

The drop-off

15% start to 8% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

What players say

As an semi-pro developer of digital implementations of physical games I was skeptical about switching from TTS. But I've been impressed with this upstart competitor and I'm happy they are still around after a number of years. I haven't released any paid board game modules since making the switch, but this is the one I use now for my personal game design/development and online playtesting. They just keep improving...
BA|OddbodRecommendedafter 27hApr 2026early accessRead on Steam
2 more reviews
With Tabletop Simulator announcing a plan to pull a Skyrim upon its modding community, I started searching for alternatives to jump to, and this is really the only one. It's not 10 years old like TTS is, but it still looks like it has plenty of polish; the only thing I can fault it for so far is that no one's here yet. You might not be getting a lot out of this right now, but I'm sure I'll have more to say about...
meta04Recommendedafter 4.9hMar 2026early accessRead on Steam
Tabletop Playground (TTP) thus far seems like an improvement over Tabletop Simulator (TTS). - TTP has a clearer, faster, and more elegant user interface. - TTP has more options for batch creating tiles, whereas in TTS you load individual image files one at a time. - TTP has an easier/better interface for allowing pieces to snap together. - TTP has overall better feel and aesthetics (subjective, I know). - TTP...
brentforestRecommendedafter 5.6hFeb 2026early accessRead on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Tabletop Playground scores 22/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/838410/tabletop-playground
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 2, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperPlasticity Studios
PublisherModularity
GenreMultiplayer
Released2020
Players10Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements4