When comparing Tabletop Simulator vs Spintires, the Slant community recommends Spintires for most people. In the question“What are the best Simulation games on Steam?” Spintires is ranked 14th while Tabletop Simulator is ranked 34th. The most important reason people chose Spintires is:
You do not see games like this much, it is kind of niche product. As going trough rugged terrain with hulking Soviet machines tends to be a pretty niche genre/style of game.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Variety of games
This game has pretty much anything you want to play. You can even make your own stuff for d&d or such.
Pro Huge amounts of user-created content
Users create and share assets among the community, allowing for a limitless number of tabletop games.
Pro Local multiplayer is possible
A "hot seat" mode is available, allowing for multiple players to play on the same computer by taking turns. Although this kind of multiplayer seems to work well for turn-based games, it does not work for all game types.
Pro Unique title
You do not see games like this much, it is kind of niche product. As going trough rugged terrain with hulking Soviet machines tends to be a pretty niche genre/style of game.
Pro Has Steam Workshop support
You can get all the mod's etc through Steam Workshop, which creates a community where one can enjoy the added elements brought forth by the available mods.
Cons
Con The UI is somewhat clunky
Con Table size is overly limited and you rely on completely community created content
Con This game isn't very intuitive
Con Rely on friends not to cheat
When playing games such as Uno, you have to rely on your friends to not cheat (by looking at your cards). There are settings that in theory prevent this, but people still find ways to cheat, which can get irritating.
Con Camera can be unweildy
There is no cockpit camera view in the game, the only camera view is this odd over the shoulder camera that can make it tough to see what one is doing while driving. It does help when trying to hook up to and pull another truck out of the mud, but an additional camera view would be helpful for driving in particular.