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Cardboard Town

Stratera Games · Rogue Duck Interactive · 2023-08-18

Steam

CasualIndieSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Apr 12, 2023 (Linux), Jul 17, 2025 (Nintendo Switch), Apr 12, 2023 (Mac), Apr 12, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Cardboard Town is a city-building card game. Manage your resources, obtain upgrades, draw your cards and thrive! Random events, quest cards, and game modes make each run different.

Cardboard Town is a Casual, Indie, Simulation, Strategy game released in 2023, priced at $19.99, with a Mostly Positive review sentiment (80% of 2320 reviews) and an owner estimate of 100,000 .. 200,000.

12
playing now
80%
positive of 2.3k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$19.99
steam price (US)

12 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 15:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Healthy
  • · 12 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 258 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~32/week).
  • · Review velocity up 4% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 5% of 29,056 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 46k–104k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,320 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $3.29 at Fanatical (2026-09-14) · bundled 6×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 15 of 24 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
32332320232026Week of 2023-04-01: 323 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 52 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 129 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 47 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 292 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 114 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 33 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 72 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 4 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

2442026-09-15 00:00 — 17 players2026-09-16 08:00 — 17 players2026-09-17 16:00 — 24 players2026-09-18 23:00 — 15 players2026-09-20 07:00 — 21 players2026-09-21 14:00 — 18 players2026-09-22 22:00 — 18 players2026-09-24 05:00 — 13 players2026-09-25 13:00 — 12 players2026-09-26 20:00 — 18 players2026-09-28 04:00 — 9 players2026-09-29 11:00 — 13 players2026-09-30 19:00 — 13 players2026-10-02 02:00 — 5 players2026-10-03 10:00 — 12 players2026-10-04 18:00 — 14 players2026-10-06 02:00 — 4 players2026-10-07 09:00 — 9 players2026-10-08 17:00 — 14 players2026-10-10 00:00 — 7 players2026-10-11 08:00 — 11 players2026-10-12 15:00 — 12 players2026-10-13 23:00 — 7 players2026-10-14 15:00 — 12 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
11110Apr 2023Aug 2026Apr 2023 — avg 79 · peak 240Jun 2023 — avg 10 · peak 36Aug 2023 — avg 58 · peak 309Oct 2023 — avg 11 · peak 26Dec 2023 — avg 23 · peak 98Feb 2024 — avg 16 · peak 52Apr 2024 — avg 13 · peak 41Jun 2024 — avg 28 · peak 117Aug 2024 — avg 16 · peak 41Oct 2024 — avg 16 · peak 56Dec 2024 — avg 30 · peak 85Feb 2025 — avg 19 · peak 64Apr 2025 — avg 13 · peak 42Jun 2025 — avg 77 · peak 474Aug 2025 — avg 18 · peak 43Oct 2025 — avg 17 · peak 44Dec 2025 — avg 28 · peak 67Feb 2026 — avg 32 · peak 123Apr 2026 — avg 11 · peak 30Jun 2026 — avg 25 · peak 55Aug 2026 — avg 13 · peak 33
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$19.99$3.392023-04-122026-08-082023-04-12 — best price $19.992023-09-01 — best price $19.992023-12-22 — best price $11.992024-03-25 — best price $8.992024-05-18 — best price $19.992024-06-05 — best price $17.992024-07-11 — best price $19.992024-07-16 — best price $17.992024-08-01 — best price $14.692024-09-02 — best price $7.992024-10-14 — best price $7.992024-10-25 — best price $17.992024-11-01 — best price $6.592024-11-21 — best price $17.992024-11-26 — best price $17.992024-12-05 — best price $17.992024-12-19 — best price $5.992025-02-06 — best price $19.992025-02-22 — best price $17.992025-03-21 — best price $17.992025-04-01 — best price $17.992025-04-11 — best price $17.992025-04-30 — best price $5.992025-05-10 — best price $14.692025-05-14 — best price $14.692025-06-06 — best price $14.692025-06-21 — best price $19.992025-07-12 — best price $14.692025-07-21 — best price $14.692025-07-27 — best price $14.692025-08-04 — best price $4.992025-09-19 — best price $14.692025-10-01 — best price $14.692025-12-11 — best price $3.992026-02-02 — best price $14.692026-04-13 — best price $19.992026-05-08 — best price $19.992026-05-30 — best price $14.972026-07-25 — best price $3.992026-08-08 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

20
achievements tracked
73%
earned "What does this do?"
11.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsCamera ComfortCustom Volume ControlsAdjustable DifficultyMouse Only OptionPlayable without Timed InputSave Anytime

10 supported languages: English, Turkish, German, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Ukrainian, Spanish - Latin America, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)2,0582%20

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

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

BuildingStrategyStylizedTabletopCard GameIsometricSolitaireManagementRogue-liteSimulation

Census log

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

Recent updates

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