GM Forge - Virtual Tabletop

Game is Dead. Dont let yourselves be fooled by the video. Dev is working on other software.

Abandonware.

Even when it was not abandoned it was not worth it, only because I spent time preparing a session for my players I couldn't refund this, since you can't have X amount of hours in the game and ask for a refund. Foundry VTT is probably the best alternative to this that is under development and has a great community, its what I use now, I have weekly 5 groups if that helps with something

Not user friendly, abandoned by the developers, and really shouldn't be on Steam at all. It's pure abandonware, and every function is hidden behind websites that no longer work, Support for this game doesn't exist.

The tool is a beta test at best, and honestly shouldn't have been sold on steam outside of anything but early access. You may see i have "740+" hours on record, well this is because of me having to work around a major issue with the product. Which was the product had a 50/50 chance of loading in the first place, and sometimes would make buttons disappear from the screen when it ran. This was a known issue at the time but was never even looked into for fixing, apparently it just was just terrible if a campaign file went above a 4x4 map. As a result i ended up just turning the tool on and once i got it working never shut it off for weeks on end, because trying to get it working the day of a session could take anywhere from 1-5 hours of just starting/restarting/refreshing. My favorite part being that the tool also didn't allow you to utilize the main screen; even on the host machine you needed to access it from the browser. This was partially because the tool wasn't made for a modern OS so once the memory usage climbed above 512 MB it would just have more and more bugs pop up. But the true slap across the face was for the $30 price tag the receive little to no support from the dev and eventually resulted in them saying they were too busy to work on this "side project". I find this annoying because i'd at best would've payed $15 if i'd known it was a "side project". There's much better products now like FoundryVTT who effectively made a similar but far and away superior product to this.

First things first: this product is abandoned. Its last update was in 2018, almost 3 years ago at this point. I will say, I actually tried this product back in 2018 when my group was looking to switch over from Roll20. Though I desperately wanted to leave Roll20, we only ever played one session on it. I have pretty good internet, but on a self-hosted server, the loading times between scenes were absolutely awful. Like, multiple minutes in some cases. That, combined with the fact that this product hasn't seen any support, means we never came back. Which is a shame, because the UI was much cleaner, it had a lot of cool features, and it was probably a better product - it was just too clunky and never got fixed. If you're looking to leave Roll20, check out Foundry VTT instead. It's a similar application, a one-time purchase, but actually gets regular updates and has an amazing developer community.

There is no support from the developer, and the product is, at best, an poorly-working alpha-release. Even the free maptool has more features and runs more stable. It's also a weird web/windows hybrid which, imho, mixes the worst of both worlds. Could have potential if the developer would have bothered to fix and finish it. But after two years there is no chance of them doing thou. Its simply an impudencethat they still charce 30$ for it though ists obviously abendonded

The lack of support is really killing this VTT. It wants to be good so badly, but the aging software is, after 90 hours, actively fighting me at every possible point. Right-click menus closing immediately, lag to the point my players are seeing my rolls before me, unresponsive to selections, and just recently, throwing me off my game map when I try to select tokens in combat to figure out which one is active. I can't keep using this product and I can't recommend it to anyone else. If you're curious about this VTT and you see this review; just make a Roll20 account and save yourself the inevitable headache.

Abandonware

This isn't a finished product. I'm really disappointed because I hate Roll20 and desperately want a decent virtual tabletop to run TTRPGs. Unfortunately the user-interface of this application is even more obtuse than R20 and I wasn't able to do anything meaningful in the two hours Steam gives you before you can't return a product. I tried checking out YouTube videos and the application's wiki but they seem to expect DMs to build character sheets from scratch? As in, before I can make a D&D 5e character, I have to define what a D&D 5e character is. I barely have time to play D&D. I don't have time to tell an application like this everything about what I'm trying to play.