Tabletop Codex

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About this app

It’s never been easier to learn and master your favorite tabletop games!

Tabletop Codex is your essential tool for reading and referencing game rules, featuring meticulously crafted summaries by The Esoteric Order of Gamers. Learn and play games faster, never make a mistake, and never get stuck looking for that crucial rule again.

Since 2004, The Esoteric Order of Gamers has curated the largest collection of game rules summaries and reference sheets worldwide. Complex rulebooks are condensed into clear, succinct summaries that retain every crucial detail. Finally, this expertise is available in a portable, searchable app designed for ease of use.

Unlike other tabletop game rulebook apps, Tabletop Codex utilizes bespoke summaries optimized specifically for this platform. Each game's rules are reorganized into logical and consistent formats, transforming chaotic manuals into digestible sections that enhance learning and gameplay clarity.

Key Features:

- 📚 Comprehensive Game Coverage: Over 200 popular board, card, and tabletop miniatures games at launch, with new games added all the time.

- 🔍 Organized and Searchable: Easily find games using the intuitive visual or text FIND section, then favourite your chosen games to move them to the LIBRARY tab.

- 📸 Visual References: Game rules include essential icons and images directly from the game. Tap icons to view full-screen images for enhanced clarity.

- 📑 Logical Layout: Rules are divided into clear sections and subsections, ensuring effortless navigation and quick reference during gameplay.

- 💡 Smart Search: Instantly locate specific rules with our innovative search mode, pinpointing exact sections where your search term appears.

- 📝 Game Insights: Each rulebook includes a box image, game basics, and a concise review by Esoteric Order of Gamers creator, Peter Gifford.

- 🎨 Customizable Interface: Switch between light and dark modes with a tap. On iPad, utilize fullscreen mode for an optimized viewing experience.

- 📱 Device Compatibility: Supports portrait mode on iPhone and both portrait and landscape modes on iPad, with added functionality for even easier navigation on the iPad.

- 🎁 Free Access to 5 Rulebooks! Start your gaming journey with 5 complimentary rulebooks included when you download the app. Each rulebook provides essential game summaries to enhance your gameplay experience right away.

- 🔓 Flexible payment methods: You can choose to buy individual game rulebooks separately, or subscribe to unlock the entire app and get full access to all existing and future rulebooks. Subscribe per month or opt for the special discounted yearly rate.

Download Tabletop Codex now and revolutionize the way you play tabletop games!

Ratings and reviews

Recurring subscription fees set you back $50 USD every year, there is no option to buy. Any reasonable person will rather look up the rule they forgot in the manual that came with their game or download the PDF from the publisher or BGG, which is why this greedy milkingware has been uninstalled. As for tutorials or rules questions, buying 'Tabletop Simulator' on PC and the modules for your games (or their digital editions) is cheaper than renting ad infinitum, and Vassal Engine et al are free.

EDIT: APP now works as advertised! Great work by the creator and issue swiftly resolved. Huge fan of the content creator, their work, and their guides but app doesn't work for me. At time of writing after installing the app the option to skip registration doesn't do anything. Can't register either (error code '500'). Will check in again in the future as I want to support the creator, but for now unusable in my S24 and tablet.

Great app. Made games nights over Xmas really enjoyable, especially since a few of us were rules rusty so what a great way to get us started quicker. I can now see me checking this app first to see if there is a reference for a game before I buy that game. I love thematic games but i don't always have time to read 30+ pages of rules, per game, everytime before a games night. This app really is great reference material!

What’s new

Bug fixes