Comparison

Tabletop Gaming vs Capital Lux 2

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

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About

Tabletop Gaming

This app delivers a monthly digital magazine focused on board games, card games, RPGs, and wargames. It features news, reviews, interviews, and guides, with exclusive digital content and a mobile-optimized reading experience.

Highlights
  • Monthly magazine content
  • News and reviews
  • Interviews with designers
  • Miniatures painting guide
  • Mobile-optimized reading
  • Night reading mode
  • Adjustable text size
Features
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Tabletop Gaming is the UK’s only monthly magazine dedicated to all types of gaming on your tabletop. From board games, card games, roleplaying games and miniatures we have you covered every month in 100 pages. Extra digital content is available only with the digital edition including exclusive images, videos, podcasts and more! PLUS, with a specially designed mobile edition, wave goodbye to zooming and say hello to night reading mode, adjustable text size and accessing all things gaming at the touch of your fingertips. 
With tons of reviews of new releases each month you’ll never be in the dark about what you should play next.

 Each issue: 
• Latest news and reviews to discover new favourite games
 • Dive deep into how games are made in interviews with world famous designers
 • In-depth features
 • Ten of the Best games lists
 • Tabletop Gaming Live Event news
 • How we made and have you played articles
 • Learn new tricks with our miniatures painting guide 
• Get to grips with the classics that have passed you by 
• The indie shelf, showcasing unknown gems 
• Event reports from the world of tabletop gaming 
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About

Capital Lux 2

A strategic card game where players draft characters and decide whether to play them in their hometown for points or contribute them to the capital for special abilities. Balancing risk, bluffing, and planning is key to victory.

Highlights
  • Character card drafting
  • Hometown vs. Capital placement
  • Special ability benefits
  • Risk and bluffing mechanics
  • Multiple tactical challenges
  • Beautiful art by Kwanchai Moriya
Features
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Will you play citizens into your hometown for points, or contribute them to the capital and benefit from their special abilities? In Capital Lux, you always balance on a razor's edge, so will you take risks? Bluff? Or follow a carefully laid plan? The choice is yours in this clever card game, featuring beautiful art by American painter Kwanchai Moriya. Each round begins with the players drafting a hand of six character cards. On your turn, you must play a card either in front of you (your hometown) or in the middle of the table (the capital). When you play a card into the capital, you benefit from the card's special ability. At the end of a round, for each profession, you are not allowed to have a higher total value in your hometown than the current total value in the capital. If you break the limit for one of the professions, you lose all cards of that profession from your hometown. At the end of the third round, all characters remaining in a player's hometown are worth points. This means that for every card there's a dilemma of whether to add it to your hometown for possible points, or to the capital which not only gives you the benefit from a special ability, but also increases the potential points for all players. Since every player is dealt only five or six cards at the beginning of a round, every card play is crucial... Capital Lux 2: Introduces a range of exchangeable capital powers that can be mixed and matched as you like. This allows for a total of 256 unique power combinations. One of these combinations plays as the original Capital Lux, while the other 255 present the players new tactical challenges.

Screenshots

Tabletop Gaming4 screens
Capital Lux 24 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Capital Lux 2 at 100% against Tabletop Gaming's 54%. Capital Lux 2 also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 10) and update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 5 months). Tabletop Gaming's advantage is price (Free vs $1.99) and rating (4.6 vs 4.0). On ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Tabletop Gaming is free to download; Capital Lux 2 costs $1.99 up front. Tabletop Gaming sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per 3 months. Capital Lux 2 asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Tabletop Gaming holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tabletop Gaming has 29 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 54% of Tabletop Gaming's written reviews are positive against 100% of Capital Lux 2's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tabletop Gaming ships an update every 5 months, Capital Lux 2 every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Tabletop Gaming versus Capital Lux 2: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTabletop GamingCapital Lux 2
PriceFree — better$1.99
Rating4.6 (29 ratings) — better4.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews53.8% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings29 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsEvery 5 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size38 MB82 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWarners Group Publications PLCycyclop games

Customer experience

Tabletop Gaming

All ratings29 ratings
Positive93.1%
Neutral0.0%
Negative6.9%
Written reviews13 reviews
Positive53.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative46.2%

Capital Lux 2

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Tabletop Gaming

Subscriptions2
  • Tabletop Gaming Auto Renewable Subscription$19.993 Months
  • Tabletop Gaming Auto Renewable Subscription1 Month trial$79.991 Year
One-time8
  • Issue One (id:799153)$6.99
  • Issue Two (id:799150)$6.99
  • Issue Three (id:799151)$6.99
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  • Issue Four (id:799152)$6.99
  • Issue Five (id:799677)$6.99
  • Issue Six (id:799681)$6.99
  • Issue Seven – D... (id:799685)$6.99
  • June 2018 (#19) (id:801344)$6.99
None

Capital Lux 2

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tabletop Gaming free?
Tabletop Gaming is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Capital Lux 2 free?
Capital Lux 2 costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Tabletop Gaming or Capital Lux 2?
Tabletop Gaming is rated higher. Tabletop Gaming averages 4.6 out of 5 from 29 ratings, while Capital Lux 2 averages 4.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Tabletop Gaming or Capital Lux 2 have ads?
Neither Tabletop Gaming nor Capital Lux 2 shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tabletop Gaming or Capital Lux 2?
Tabletop Gaming ships an update every 5 months, and Capital Lux 2 every 5 weeks. Most recently, Tabletop Gaming was updated on November 1, 2026 and Capital Lux 2 on November 3, 2026.

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