Welcome to TabletopRecommender.app
Enter your boardgamegeek, rpggeek, or videogamegeek username above to get personalized game recommendations based on your ratings.
Your recommendations will be formatted like this sample list of popular games:
| 1 | 9.9 | Galactic Cruise(2025) 1-4 players Solo Play |
| 2 | 9.7 | Daggerheart (Corebook)(2025) Daggerheart Core Rules (min needed to play) |
| 3 | 9.6 | Clair Obscur: Expedition 33(2025) Sandfall Interactive Single-player |
- Gold entries are board games.
- Blue entries are role playing games.
Note: to get recommendations based on your RPG ratings, you must have rated RPG Items (eg: D&D Player's Handbook), not systems (eg: Dungeons & Dragons).
- Red entries are video games.- The decimal number is the recommender's best guess at what you would rate the game.
- Below each recommendation is a list of user-rated sources for that recommendation and an influence score for each in parentheses, representing the strength of that source's connection to the recommendation.
- Use the filter buttons and menus on the recommendations page to customize the recommendation list.
- Search for games in the recommendation list with the search bar at the top of the recommendations page.
- Share your recommendations using the Share ⤴ button at the bottom of the recommendations page.
A lot of thought and care has gone into the accuracy, usability, and aesthetics of TabletopRecommender. Thank you to the rpggeek regulars for your invaluable suggestions and feedback.
Have fun!
FAQ:
How long will it take to get my recommendations?
Generating or updating your recommendations may take anywhere from 5 minutes to 24 hours depending on the number of games you've rated, their popularity, and how many users are in the queue. Feel free to contact me if you have trouble getting your recommendations.
Why am I seeing games that I own or have rated in my recommendations?
Use the filter buttons and menus on your recommendations page to filter out games that you own, that you've rated, and to access other filtering options.
Why aren't my RPG ratings included?
The recommender uses RPG item ratings (eg: Keeper Rulebook), not RPG system ratings (eg: Call of Cthulhu).
If you've only rated RPG systems on RPGGeek, you will not receive any recommendations based on those ratings.
How does it work?
The recommendation algorithm places a strong emphasis on objectivity, discoverability, and surprise. It uses a direct form of collaborative filtering--gathering the other users who have rated games in your collection and using their preferences to inform your recommendations. The recommender is blind to factors like genre, game mechanics, or series associations--instead relying purely on preferential associations derived from the game ratings of other users. The goal of the recommender is not necessarily to recommend games that you're already interested in, but rather to recommend the games that you would most like if you played them, based on the experiences of users with preferences like (and in opposition to) your own.
The recommender gathers your 'board game', 'RPG item', and 'video game' ratings, the ratings of related users, and game information using the BoardGameGeek API. Note that if you have only rated RPG systems on RPGGeek you will not receive any recommendations--the recommender uses 'RPG Item' ratings.
What does the number next to each recommendation mean?
The decimal number is the "recommender score" and represents the recommender's best guess at what you (or the user whose recommendations you're viewing) would rate the game in question.
How does search work?
- Search can only return games that are actually in your recommendation list.
- Search is case and accent insensitive and includes partial matches. Searching 'poke' could return 'Poker' and 'Pokémon Red and Blue'.
- Search includes role playing game systems. Searching 'cthulhu' could return the item 'Keeper Rulebook' from the RPG 'Call of Cthulhu'.
- Search includes video game developers. Searching 'nintendo' could return 'Star Fox 64' from the developer 'Nintendo Co., Ltd.'.
- Use quotes to perform an exact search (case insensitive). Searching "ra" (in quotes) could return the game 'Ra' but not 'Terraforming Mars'. Searching "7 wonders" (in quotes) could return '7 Wonders', but not '7 Wonders Duel'.
What is the list of games and numbers under each recommendation? (recommendation sources and influence scores)
These are the games you've rated that have had the most significant influence on a given recommendation. The number (x) to the right of each game is the "influence score", which represents the source game's connection strength to the recommended game. Influence scores will be a number between 1 and 100, with some exceptions (eg: certain expansions or a game's influence on itself).
How do board game player counts work?
The player counts for board game entries are derived from boardgamegeek's community recommended player count polls. If there aren't enough votes (at least one for each player number), the game's "box" player count is used instead. The recommender counts a player number as valid if the combined boardgamegeek "best" and "recommended" votes are greater than the "not recommended" votes.
Contact:
Do you have a bug report, feature request, or other feedback? Send me a message on boardgamegeek!
Updates:
January 13, 2026
- Recommendations now load asynchronously (after the page loads), increasing responsiveness and hopefully reducing or eliminating page-timeouts and app crashes.
December 30, 2025
- Added a queue position indicator ("You are user [#] in the queue") to the recommendations page. This should make it easier to understand your progress when getting recommendations.
December 29, 2025
- The app is live and fully operational after a long period of development and maintenance.
- The core algorithm and influence system has been overhauled. Recommendations, their scores, and the logic behind them should be clearly interpretable and transparent based on the source games for a recommendation and their influence scores. Results may vary, but those who are interested in a deep, trustworthy, and traceable recommender may appreciate the updated system.
September 9, 2025
- When a user selects the "rated owned" and "rated unowned" filters they will now see all of the rated games in their collection (requires an update). Previously, a user's rated games with no recommendation data would not be visible (eg: an obscure game that only the user has rated, or that no one has rated highly). This feature was added to the enhance a user's experience when viewing their own collection using the recommender. The recommender score for these rated games will be the user's own rating, and they can be denoted by the fact that there is no connection information for them.
Note that the "unrated owned" filter will not represent a complete view of a user's "unrated owned" games. It will only show unrated owned games with recommendation data.