Start with a game you love. See what sits next to it.
TableMatch lines up board games by what they actually share: mechanics, themes, designers, weight and length. Every neighbour comes with the reason it is there. Try it on the right.
Beta. Explore and Play work without an account.
Catan
Trade and build your way across an island
Your walk so far. Tap a game to go back to it.
This demo holds 24 well-known games and hand-written reasons. The app walks over more than a thousand. Games appear as plain emblems until you sign in; then your shelf and boards show their box art.
Explore: follow the connections
Every game has neighbours, the games that share its mechanics, themes, designer, weight or length. Explore shows them with the reason beside each one, so you can tell “more of the same” from “same feeling, different game”.
- Steer. Lighter, heavier, shorter, longer, or the same designer.
- Share a walk. Your path is a link you can send to a friend.
- See it all. The landscape puts the whole sample on one map, coloured by theme, type, weight or length.
Play: five minutes with games you know
Quick rounds that test how well you know the shelf: name a game from its redacted description, find what a handful of games have in common, or spot the one that doesn’t fit. Here is one.
Players take turns laying tiles to build a landscape of cities, roads and monasteries, then place followers on them to score. This is
Bring your own shelf
Sign in and TableMatch starts working with your games. Import your BoardGameGeek collection and choose what comes along: the games you own, your wishlist and want-to-play list, your ratings, the games you have played. Anything you leave out stays out.
Your games carry tags you can filter by, and you decide who sees what. Explore and the landscape light up your own territory.
The games here wear plain emblems. Once you are signed in, your shelf and your mood boards show each game’s box art, and the app looks a lot better for it.
Mood boards for any occasion
Gather up to 50 games on a board for a mood, a guest, a rainy day. Keep it to yourself, share it with friends, or make it public. Bring in a BoardGameGeek geeklist and read it as it is, or copy it to a board of your own and edit freely.
Then get it to the table
Plan a game night, invite friends as players, hosts or teachers, and message them in the app. TableMatch speaks English and German.
Two example boards. In your account they show the games’ box art.
Where it stands
TableMatch is in beta and still being built. Explore and Play use a sample of about 1,300 well-known games; your own shelf can hold anything that is on BoardGameGeek. Some corners are rough, and some screens will change.
If something breaks, confuses you or is missing, tell us. That is how it gets better.