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Card Shark

Nerial · Devolver Digital · 2022-06-02

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AdventureIndieSimulation

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jun 02, 2022 (Nintendo Switch), Jun 02, 2022 (Mac), Jun 02, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Card Shark is an adventure game full of cunning, intrigue, and delectable deceit. Enter a world where you’ll need to play your opponents better than you play your cards.

19
playing now
90%
positive of 3.2k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
88/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
64/100
IGDB user rating (26 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$19.99
steam price (US)

19 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 11:00 UTC (census sample)

Card Shark is an action-adventure game developed by Nerial and published by Devolver Digital. The game was released for macOS, Windows, and Nintendo Switch on June 2, 2022. Based and set in 18th century France, the game follows a mute peasant who assists Comte de Saint Germain to con gamblers from various parlors as they pursue a Royal rumor called "The Twelve Bottles of Milk".

Health check

Healthy
  • · 19 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 240 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~30/week).
  • · Review velocity up 30% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (899 reviews).
  • · Top 16% of 11,362 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-29

Estimated sales: 65k–145k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 3,226 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Fanatical$3.99-80%
Gamesplanet$3.99-80%
GOG$5.99-70%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$19.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $3.99 at Steam (2026-06-11)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 99 of 141 observed days · at its all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
80680620222026Week of 2022-06-01: 806 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 93 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 123 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 58 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 317 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 65 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 70 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 57 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 58 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 55 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 65 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 57 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 58 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

2622026-08-12 04:00 — 12 players2026-08-12 20:00 — 21 players2026-08-13 12:00 — 15 players2026-08-14 04:00 — 10 players2026-08-14 20:00 — 11 players2026-08-15 11:00 — 17 players2026-08-16 03:00 — 12 players2026-08-16 19:00 — 14 players2026-08-17 11:00 — 11 players2026-08-18 03:00 — 4 players2026-08-18 19:00 — 8 players2026-08-19 10:00 — 16 players2026-08-20 02:00 — 12 players2026-08-20 18:00 — 10 players2026-08-21 10:00 — 11 players2026-08-22 01:00 — 8 players2026-08-22 17:00 — 9 players2026-08-23 09:00 — 26 players2026-08-24 01:00 — 7 players2026-08-24 17:00 — 9 players2026-08-25 09:00 — 10 players2026-08-26 01:00 — 8 players2026-08-26 17:00 — 7 players2026-08-27 09:00 — 11 players2026-08-28 01:00 — 2 players2026-08-28 11:00 — 10 players2026-08-29 03:00 — 10 players2026-08-29 19:00 — 13 players2026-08-30 11:00 — 19 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$19.99$3.352022-05-112026-08-302022-05-11 — best price $16.992022-08-01 — best price $16.972022-09-28 — best price $19.992022-11-22 — best price $14.992022-12-21 — best price $14.992023-02-07 — best price $19.992023-03-29 — best price $19.992023-05-05 — best price $12.992023-06-19 — best price $11.992023-07-21 — best price $11.992023-08-29 — best price $16.972023-11-13 — best price $19.992024-01-05 — best price $11.992024-02-11 — best price $10.892024-03-16 — best price $9.992024-04-25 — best price $11.992024-06-10 — best price $9.992024-07-13 — best price $19.992024-08-20 — best price $19.992024-09-30 — best price $19.992024-11-05 — best price $9.992024-12-18 — best price $8.002025-01-25 — best price $7.992025-02-26 — best price $19.992025-04-03 — best price $19.992025-05-08 — best price $19.992025-06-12 — best price $19.992025-08-11 — best price $19.992025-09-18 — best price $5.992025-10-24 — best price $7.992025-12-12 — best price $17.792026-02-04 — best price $5.992026-03-30 — best price $7.992026-04-25 — best price $19.992026-05-14 — best price $5.032026-06-16 — best price $3.992026-08-17 — best price $3.352026-08-30 — best price $3.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

4892026-05-30 — 9 pageviews2026-06-02 — 25 pageviews2026-06-05 — 25 pageviews2026-06-08 — 18 pageviews2026-06-11 — 22 pageviews2026-06-14 — 22 pageviews2026-06-17 — 20 pageviews2026-06-20 — 22 pageviews2026-06-23 — 16 pageviews2026-06-26 — 19 pageviews2026-06-29 — 18 pageviews2026-07-02 — 19 pageviews2026-07-05 — 24 pageviews2026-07-08 — 18 pageviews2026-07-11 — 17 pageviews2026-07-14 — 24 pageviews2026-07-17 — 19 pageviews2026-07-20 — 26 pageviews2026-07-23 — 38 pageviews2026-07-26 — 48 pageviews2026-07-29 — 16 pageviews2026-08-01 — 26 pageviews2026-08-04 — 15 pageviews2026-08-07 — 21 pageviews2026-08-10 — 14 pageviews2026-08-13 — 18 pageviews2026-08-16 — 14 pageviews2026-08-19 — 19 pageviews2026-08-22 — 12 pageviews2026-08-25 — 19 pageviews2026-08-27 — 17 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

52
achievements tracked
86.8%
earned "Party Trick"
15.7%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudFamily Sharing2 DLC

11 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)2,9531%52
Switch (Nintendo)1150%0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

2DIndieMysteryStealthGamblingStylizedTutorialCard GameNarrationHand-drawn

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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