Alternatives to Tabletopia
An online sandbox for playing more than 2,500 board games in the browser, on Steam or Android. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
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Tabletopia
An online sandbox for playing more than 2,500 board games in the browser, on Steam or Android.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Tabletopia.
Tabletop Simulator
A physics-based sandbox for playing and building board, card and tabletop games online with others.
Tabletop Simulator is a paid desktop app for Windows, macOS and Linux with a physics sandbox, Steam Workshop content and a scripting API that can automate game rules.
Board Game Arena
A browser platform for playing licensed board games online with friends or players worldwide.
Board Game Arena runs in the browser with licensed games, real-time and turn-based play and ranked matches, and it enforces rules instead of leaving them to players.
VASSAL
An open-source engine for building and playing digital versions of board games and card games.
VASSAL is an open-source desktop engine for Windows, macOS and Linux with over 3,200 community modules, supporting live play or play by email and Discord.
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.
Owlbear Rodeo
A browser-based virtual tabletop for running tabletop role-playing sessions with maps, tokens and fog.
Foundry Virtual Tabletop
A self-hosted virtual tabletop for running role-playing games that players join through a web browser.
Lichess
A free, open-source, ad-free chess server for playing, solving puzzles and studying chess online.
MapTool
Host a virtual tabletop for pen-and-paper roleplaying games.
