Tabletop Simulator is more of a sandbox than an actual "game", it's a physics toolbox for replicating the experience of playing board and tabletop games with all your friends and goons and goony friends even if they're not in the room. It has a variety of ways to let you effectively play nearly every game ever put to cardboard, though a few edge cases in creative physical manufacturing are basically impossible (like if a double sided card wants you to see one side, and your opponents see the back, but you're not allowed to see both sides, that isn't supported). The Steam Workshop lets you find all sorts of real games, most recreated, but some completely unique to TTS. Some game publishers even put up demo versions of their games, which is really really sick!

It also comes with a powerful scripting system using Lua and XML, so really you can make a whole dang automated game system in this, taking all the busywork out. It's up to you to determine if it's worth it, but putting the effort in to automate a complex game's setup really helps out a lot.

The hotseat mode is kinda buggy as heck, but really, I don't know anyone who would actually use that. The point is, if you like playing board games, at all, and you don't have friends nearby or the budget (or space in your house) for board games, you NEED to pick this up.

Tabletop Simulator is more of a sandbox than an actual "game", it's a physics toolbox for replicating the experience of playing board and tabletop games with all your friends and goons and goony friends even if they're not in the room. It has a variety of ways to let you effectively play nearly every game ever put to cardboard, though a few edge cases in creative physical manufacturing are basically impossible (like if a double sided card wants you to see one side, and your opponents see the back, but you're not allowed to see both sides, that isn't supported). The Steam Workshop lets you find all sorts of real games, most recreated, but some completely unique to TTS. Some game publishers even put up demo versions of their games, which is really really sick! It also comes with a powerful scripting system using Lua and XML, so really you can make a whole dang automated game system in this, taking all the busywork out. It's up to you to determine if it's worth it, but putting the effort in to automate a complex game's setup really helps out a lot. The hotseat mode is kinda buggy as heck, but really, I don't know anyone who would actually use that. The point is, if you like playing board games, at all, and you don't have friends nearby or the budget (or space in your house) for board games, you NEED to pick this up.