Tabletop Simulator

The best non-game I have ever played.

This game is no game on its own, you'd have to be really dumb to buy this assuming such a thing. If it isn't incredibly obvious, this board game simulator is put together mainly by the sheer amount of Steam Workshop mods that encompass it. My rating merely just defines how well it actually all comes together and works. Despite being slightly unthinkable, the possibilities of developing board games in this "engine" are practically just bound to the limits of the API this runs on. I have seen games that even transcend past this game's own limits using it's own code (for example, the game only supports 11 sitting players in a lobby, but I've seen mods that legitimately just don't give a shit and run with 21 through a bunch of programming fuckery).

While this game seems like a bad purchase if you don't have friends to play it with, I still hugely recommend it as there are plenty of public rooms to join in on, and nothing is stopping you either from hosting your own. Managing a table is ridiculously easy and very seamless within this program. It's also fun as fuck depending on what it is you are doing.

If you love board games, I really don't know why you haven't bought this yet. It's been continuously updated, has mods for just about every board game under the sun (and if there isn't one, I promise you, there will be one eventually; but good luck finding any popular board game that is somehow missing). It's also amazingly easy to use, navigate, and work with. You can get setup really easily with just some basic knowledge of how this works. I beyond recommend it for pretty much anybody still, but board game enthusiasts would be making a mistake to miss out on this one somehow.

A great base foundation to play an absolute barrel-load of any kind of tabletop game you can think of, without the need to meet-up in person nor even own the actual tabletop game. Getting up to speed with the controls etc. is also pretty damn easy, and while it'll never be as smooth as in-person its about as good as you can expect (without being specialised to 1 game or just 1 specific genre of games), making this great to sit in your virtual back-pocket. I've played DnD, Betrayal at the House on the Hill, Secret Hitler, UNO, Coup and more (sometimes trying to crash the game itself by summoning a crapload of objects then flipping the table can be a funny way to round off a tabletop session).

Yes, playing in person is better, but I'd rather play on Tabletop Simulator than be forced not to play at all.

Tabletop > MTG Arena
you can actually play commander in this game

tabletop in real life >>>>>> tabletop in video game sorry

This is a good game if you've got friends. Well, games, i should say. There's TONS of content here, which is to be expected if everyone in the userbase is scanning their own games and adding them to the Steam Workshop. The only problem I personally have with this game is that some of the games just don't work for me for some reason or other. They work for other people though! I should probably reinstall my game. Fantastic fun.