Разработчик: Tabletopia
Описание
What is Tabletopia?
Tabletopia is a sandbox virtual table with high-quality board games made by professionals. Already 2,400+ games and counting!Play how you want with whom you want: your guests don’t need accounts to play. Enjoy the amazing graphics, realistic physics, and digital perks like ready setups, customizable cameras, and intuitive controls. Make your own games with no programming skills required.
What does Tabletopia offer?
- Advanced digital arena for playing board games in an experience almost like gathering around a real table.
- Hundreds of licensed board games, including designer classics, recent hits, and tomorrow's Kickstarter releases.
- True cross-platform experience: available now on PC, Mac OS X, iOS, and Android devices.
- Automated game setups, shuffling and dealing of cards, tracking player turns, and many other automated features.
- Public and private game tables, matchmaking system, etc.
- Ability to create your own games with no programming knowledge required (browser version).
- Specialized tools for designing, playtesting, demonstrating, and monetizing your board games (browser version).
Augmented Reality support
Unique experience with Tilt Five™: just wear Tilt Five™ glasses and animate your game board!How do I play games on Tabletopia?
Tabletopia is a sandbox system. That means no AI to enforce the rules, so you still need to read the rulebook to know how to play the game.Choose a game from our extensive library, create a table, send the link or room number to your friends or other Tabletopians, and let the game begin. Or go to Find & Play section and join an already created table. It’s that simple!
How much does it cost?
Tabletopia is free-to-play on Steam. No subscriptions or recurring payments are required to play.With free Tabletopia you can:
- Access 2,400+ games for free (some setups and expansions may require Premium).
- Invite your friends outside Tabletopia to play free games.
- Play up to 2 games simultaneously.
With Premium Tabletopia you can:
- Access all games, expansions, and setups.
- Invite your friends outside Tabletopia to play any games, including premium games.
- Play up to 10 games simultaneously.
Why Tabletopia and not other similar platforms?
- Officially licensed games. All the games in our catalog are fully licensed and created in partnership with their designers and/or publishers. By playing our Premium games you directly support their authors.
- Free-to-play, free-to-share. Tabletopia for Steam is free-to-play with hundreds of board games available at no additional cost. All games can be shared and played with people who don't have accounts. It's free.
- Friendly interface. Tabletopia is developed by professionals with maximum usability in mind. Its friendly interface, intuitive controls, built-in tutorials will make your gaming experience smooth and easy.
- Amazing visuals. Tabletopia boasts outstanding 3D graphics and top-notch quality of all game components and visuals. It also features a flexible camera with refined controls and custom settings.
- Digital advantages. Being a sandbox system, Tabletopia still provides numerous advantages of a digital product, such as ready game setups, shuffling and dealing of cards, tracking player turns, etc. Game objects can be rotated, flipped, locked in place, magnetically placed, and decks of cards can be shuffled and dealt from at the click of a button.
Поддерживаемые языки: english
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *: Windows 7 SP1 / Windows 8 / Windows 8.1 / Windows 10
- Processor: 1.2 GHz, 2 cores
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: 1024 MB
- DirectX: Version 11
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- OS *: Windows 7 SP1 / Windows 8 / Windows 8.1 / Windows 10
- Processor: Intel® Core™ i5 or higher, 1.5+ GHz, 2+ cores
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: 1024 MB, DirectX 11 or higher, discrete video card
- DirectX: Version 11
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
Mac
- OS: Mac OS X 10.9 or newer
- Processor: Intel® Core™ i3 or higher, 1.5+ GHz, 2+ cores
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: 512 MB
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- OS: Mac OS X 10.11 or newer
- Processor: Intel® Core™ i5 or higher, 1.5+ GHz, 2+ cores
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: 1024 MB, discrete video card
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
Отзывы пользователей
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 prefer the controls of TTS and inviting friends can be clumsy in tabletopia but its still a nice clean interface with a good selection of games. It's thanks to Tabletopia that I ended up buying On Mars and backing Vampire - Vandetta!
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.
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...
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.
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 start...
I don't get why this getsd so much hate. Yes it is web browser, but you can only notice when in menu, but the games look nice and it runs quite nicely. Of course the physics are'nt as good as tabletop simulator. But for free i can definitely recommend this game. Lot of games, lot of fun for lot of people.
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.
"Ability to create your own games with no programming knowledge required."
No. This program doesn't have that at all, instead it has a link to their website, where you get to use a clunky and unintuitive browser-based interface (hope you like big disclaimer boxes popping up in the way every time you try to do anything!) that doesn't even work correctly with Chrome.
"Purchase Tabletopia on Steam to gain full access to the service right now via your Steam client. "
"Tabletopia will be free-to-play after release."
I install and boot it up for the first time. I connect my steam account to their website, but it says I need an invite code. I click on workshop and it says I need to purchase premium. I finally get it and try to play a game - any game. It keeps on saying I need to pay more. After some more log in issues I finally switch from Chrome to Firefox, and download the latest Java and Unity Web Player. I start loading a game, "Unexpected error". I try another one "The content was stopped because a fatal content error". I try a few more games, as well as relogging in, and reloading my internet browser. Same errors and crashes.
Fuck this piece of shit.
If you can’t get friends together for a game night this one is for you. With about three hundred games (around two and a half if you don’t count strange indie projects, but still) I have enough variety for months of game nights! Can’t wait! 10/10
Having an experience with TTS, I needed to try Tabletopia as well when it appeared on Steam.
What I liked best is that while it is essentially a sandbox like TTS, the TT devs really use a lot of digital features to make the process easier and more smooth. For example, the hand with your cards is glued to the bottom of the screen and is super convenient, no need to keep the cards on the table. The other people can see the number of objects in your hand on your avatar and what you are doing at the moment.
And the table itself is unlimited, so nothing falls off. The tables in TTS really annoy me every time anyone knocks or drops anything off them causing chaos or when you simply don’t have enough room for the components, especially when there’s several players.
In general TT looks and feels very nice and pro, I just really hope it did not involve subscriptions but rather sold games as DLCs... But since it will be f2p soon, I am okay with that.
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 far as digital board games go, Tabletopia has all I’m looking for:
1) A couple hundreds of games already available (and it’s still Early Access) and adding more steadily.
2) Browser version and Steam client. Tablets coming soon, which I’m really excited for.
3) Great looks. Just look at the pictures, I haven’t seen anything like this before.
4) Useful features: ready setups, shuffling, turn-based modes, etc. It feels like a game not like messing around with a pile of components.
5) Can be shared with other people for free. They don’t need to buy anything!
6) You can make your own games there. Lots of objects, cards, etc. in the catalog to choose from. I know that many people can find this interesting.
I’ve recommended Tabletopia to several of my friends already. Early Access really looks like a smart deal right now. And it will be free-to-play soon, so if you don’t want too pay, just wait to see for yourselves.
Over the past few days, I have tried to either set up (i.e. host a game) or join an already existing game, but in every case I have been unable to play a single board game through this software. The hosts for games already set up seem to be perpetually afk, and the games that I set up don't get anyone to join regardless of the title.
Further, the price tag listed for this software is, I suppose, money to pay for the opportunity to create your own game through their board game software and then, through the software, to sell it to people who'd be interested in playing the game online with others. That part seems well done, but I'm not sure real life board game makers will ever make any real money through this portal or that real life board game fans will accpet paying $10 for an online version of a board game when they could buy the real one for $30 from Amazon and be able to enjoy it with friends/family for the rest of their lives.
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.
Some early thoughts...
1) "200+" games there may be, but most of them are quite obscure. The 'big hitters' that I saw are;
Terra Mystica
Scythe
Steampunk Ralley
Viticulture
Vinos
Lewis & Clark
Hostage Negotiator
Then from what I can recall, it gets a bit sketchy! They are really going to have to up this considerably if I'm going to consider subscribing at any level.
2) It runs ok on my fairly modest gaming rig. The start up is a bit slow, but actually in game is smooth
3) Wasnt that many people around, but thats not really a surprise right now. Its a fairly niche title plus early access definitely puts people off.
4) Besides Hostage Negotiator and a little play with Terra Mystica solo, I've not actually played anyone online yet. I dont even know if the turns are async or has to be live. No information easily shows this.
5) The games look ok. Terra Mystica in particular looked very impressive all laid out.
6) The UI will take some getting used to, but has useful functions (like hover over a stack of tokens, roll your mouse wheel to tick up a counter, then click button to take that many of the stack), can also shuffle a deck easily, flip cards etc.
So overall... hmmm... not convinced right now. Lack of killer titles in the library will make or break it IMHO as the rest of it is kinda there. If they want this to be the "spotify of boardgaming" then they just have to get the top games from BGG signed up.
A really impressively put together system that looks good, plays smoothly and gives you access to some triple A board games for a modest inital fee. I know the model is slated to be subscription based but not sure exactly how that will work yet and in the interim, I will surely get my moneys worth on what it has to offer already.
I am a solo player mainly and this system lets you play everyones "turn" if you wish and it saves where you left off in the gaming room for when you come back (needed for some of the bigger games). I could set up a private game room so I wasn't disturbed and whilst I guess this is maybe not the primary selling point here, something that appeals to me.
I bought and am using this on my laptop whilst away from my home base using a "dongle". I only dropped connection once and it went back in quikcly where I left off. Since then, it has worked seamlessly.
So, overall, I fully endorse this game based on my very early impressions and as a Boardgamegeek, I can only hope the number of games available will continue to grow.
Want to pay for Early Access, then get stung by subscription based model to play the decent games post-launch? Go right ahead.
Otherwise. Avoid.
I'm returning mine for a refund.
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.
Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Tabletopia |
| Платформы | Windows, Mac |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 16.11.2024 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 68% положительных (82) |