The Game Census
Card Survival: Tropical Island cover art

Card Survival: Tropical Island

WinterSpring Games · 2022-09-16

Steam

AdventureIndieSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Sep 16, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Sep 16, 2022 (Mac)

Card Survival is a card-based survival experience. Stranded on a desert island you must use your wits and skills to stay alive. Use cards and combine them together to explore, gather resources and craft useful tools.

253
playing now
95%
positive of 3.0k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60h
time to beat (IGDB)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$24.99
steam price (US)

253 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 07:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 253 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 150 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~19/week).
  • · Review velocity down 33% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 17% of 11,408 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-29

Estimated sales: 61k–137k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 3,044 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $6.99 at Steam (2021-08-20)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $24.99 · on sale 8 of 16 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
26626620212026Week of 2021-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 67 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 131 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 136 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 266 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 253 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 106 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 91 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 75 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 56 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 105 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 65 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 51 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 55 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 55 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 76 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 76 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 55 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 58 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 51 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

305672026-08-11 23:00 — 80 players2026-08-12 14:00 — 260 players2026-08-13 06:00 — 175 players2026-08-13 22:00 — 67 players2026-08-14 14:00 — 281 players2026-08-15 06:00 — 202 players2026-08-15 21:00 — 90 players2026-08-16 13:00 — 305 players2026-08-17 05:00 — 197 players2026-08-17 21:00 — 88 players2026-08-18 13:00 — 285 players2026-08-19 05:00 — 161 players2026-08-19 20:00 — 87 players2026-08-20 12:00 — 235 players2026-08-21 04:00 — 133 players2026-08-21 20:00 — 109 players2026-08-22 11:00 — 239 players2026-08-23 03:00 — 182 players2026-08-23 19:00 — 92 players2026-08-24 11:00 — 194 players2026-08-25 03:00 — 133 players2026-08-25 19:00 — 84 players2026-08-26 11:00 — 199 players2026-08-27 03:00 — 135 players2026-08-27 19:00 — 89 players2026-08-28 07:00 — 193 players2026-08-28 23:00 — 77 players2026-08-29 15:00 — 290 players2026-08-30 07:00 — 253 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$24.99$6.992021-08-202026-07-092021-08-20 — best price $6.992022-05-04 — best price $16.992022-08-08 — best price $16.992022-10-25 — best price $19.992022-12-23 — best price $19.992023-01-20 — best price $19.992023-02-22 — best price $19.992023-03-16 — best price $19.992023-05-16 — best price $19.992023-06-29 — best price $16.742023-08-28 — best price $19.992023-10-05 — best price $17.492023-11-09 — best price $17.492023-11-22 — best price $17.492023-12-21 — best price $14.992024-03-14 — best price $17.492024-04-05 — best price $17.492024-05-27 — best price $17.492024-06-27 — best price $17.492024-07-20 — best price $14.992024-08-26 — best price $17.492024-10-04 — best price $17.492024-11-15 — best price $12.492024-11-27 — best price $12.492024-12-19 — best price $12.492025-01-24 — best price $14.992025-03-13 — best price $14.992025-04-18 — best price $14.992025-05-30 — best price $14.992025-06-27 — best price $12.492025-08-10 — best price $14.992025-09-19 — best price $14.992025-09-29 — best price $12.492025-11-06 — best price $14.992025-12-18 — best price $12.492026-02-06 — best price $14.992026-03-19 — best price $12.492026-04-24 — best price $14.992026-06-25 — best price $12.492026-07-09 — best price $24.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Twitch viewers

002026-08-28 08:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 09:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 10:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 11:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 12:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 13:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 14:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 15:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 16:35 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 17:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 15:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 16:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 17:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 18:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 20:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 21:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 22:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 23:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-30 00:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-30 01:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-30 02:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-30 03:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-30 04:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-30 05:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-30 06:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-30 09:34 — 0 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Completion

54
achievements tracked
87.3%
earned "Welcome to the Island!"
19.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam CloudFamily Sharing

11 supported languages: English, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Spain, Spanish - Latin America, Korean, German, Turkish, Japanese, French, Hungarian, Polish

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,0741%54

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

Player tags

IndieCraftingStrategySurvivalAdventureCard GameHand-drawnRogue-likeSimulationText-Based

Census log

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

Players also track

Star Control®: OriginsSupreme Ruler UltimateSurvivalistAnother Brick in The MallWeapon Shop FantasyAncient CitiesBronze Age - HD EditionTech Support: Error Unknown

Similarity via IGDB.

Discord ↗