Alternatives to Tabletop Simulator
A physics-based sandbox for playing and building board, card and tabletop games online with others. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Tabletop Simulator
A physics-based sandbox for playing and building board, card and tabletop games online with others.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Tabletop Simulator.
Tabletopia
An online sandbox for playing more than 2,500 board games in the browser, on Steam or Android.
Tabletopia is a free sandbox with over 2,500 board games that plays in the browser, on Steam or Android, with players still handling rules themselves.
Board Game Arena
A browser platform for playing licensed board games online with friends or players worldwide.
Board Game Arena runs licensed board games in any browser with real-time, turn-based and ranked play, so there is no physics sandbox or install.
VASSAL
An open-source engine for building and playing digital versions of board games and card games.
VASSAL is a free open-source board game engine with over 3,200 community modules and play-by-email support, trading the physics sandbox for a functional 2D interface.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Roll20
A browser-based virtual tabletop for playing pen-and-paper role-playing games and board games online.
Foundry Virtual Tabletop
A self-hosted virtual tabletop for running role-playing games that players join through a web browser.
TaleSpire
A 3D virtual tabletop for building scenes and playing pen-and-paper role-playing games with friends online.
Lichess
A free, open-source, ad-free chess server for playing, solving puzzles and studying chess online.
Owlbear Rodeo
A browser-based virtual tabletop for running tabletop role-playing sessions with maps, tokens and fog.
