Board Game Engine

Board Game Engine

Omnibox Games Ltd · January 22, 2022 · Board Game, Simulation, Tabletop, Game Development, Level Editor

Board Game Engine is free to play — no purchase needed. We track it so you know if that ever changes.

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Mostly Negative36% · 14 📉 Recent reviews down 20%
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Board Game Engine price

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About Board Game Engine

✦ AI summary

Board Game Engine is a comprehensive toolkit for designing and prototyping tabletop games with full creative control over mechanics, components, and gameplay rules. Play and playtest games free while the detailed editor lets designers build complete prototypes with deck creation tools, versioning support, and Steam Workshop integration.

The Board Game Engine was built with game developers in mind as a tool for designing and prototyping your very own tabletop games with as much freedom as possible.

Board Game Engine — game info

Platforms
Windows
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included

DLC & expansions

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

✦ AI summary

Board Game Engine appears to be an abandoned project with game-breaking bugs and severe usability issues that frustrate players attempting basic functions like importing assets or creating cards. The lack of any updates in nearly a year, combined with missing tutorials, poorly explained features, and an incomplete editor with limited options, makes it feel more like an unfinished prototype than a finished product. Players strongly advise against purchasing it, with some suggesting the free version might be worth trying only if you have significant patience for trial-and-error learning.

Not recommended Dec 15, 2023
---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☑ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☐ Worth the price ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ If it's on sale ☐ Not recommended ☑ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☐ Never heard of ☐ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☑ Game breaking ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ Completeness }--- ☐ Feels complete ☐ Obvious progress ☐ Devlog progress ☐ No evident progress ☑ Abandoned ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☑ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☐ 8 ☐ 9 ☐ 10
12 found this helpful
Not recommended Nov 26, 2022
It's been almost a year since I purchased this and not one single update has been made. The program is impossible to use, even for something like creating cards. I can't import any pawns, cards, models, nothing. Waste of money.
8 found this helpful
Not recommended Dec 18, 2022
unfinished and bad
2 found this helpful
Not recommended May 7, 2023
It appears that you have to create all objects external and pick them from folders. But all in all it is not even far described what to do and how. No tutorial what so ever, if you want to start you have to trial and error with the "options" wich are also very limited if not absend at all! The sad thing here is, that this is litterally a wasted potential of something that could have been great - IF it would have been user-friendly but it sure just isn´t and it also seems like it will never become hence the lack of further development - so it seems... So do you want to buy it? NOPE definitily not, if you on the other hand REALLY want to give it a try, grab the free to use version , BUT bring a lot of time and PATIENCE, or you will not be happy with this software - like I mentioned, you need exterial software like paint or similar.... Havn´t tryed things like blender for eventually creating 3D-pawns (at least in the options to pick a data-formate their has been the option to choose .mdl and .obj datafiles...) Based on all mentioned above, I cannot recomment this software, even if it is for free; not worth the time especially not worth a dime!
1 found this helpful
Recommended Mar 21, 2023
[h1]Before I played Board Game Engine, I had a small pp, no friends, no gf, depression, and no life. These things havent changed, but the game is pretty good[/h1]
1 found this helpful
Not recommended Nov 15, 2025
Raw and boring. Almost no features, no multiplayer, and a weak editor.

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