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Kardboard Kings: Card Shop Simulator cover art

Kardboard Kings: Card Shop Simulator

Henry's House · Akupara Games · 2022-02-10

SteamGOGEpic Games Store

CasualIndieSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jan 23, 2025 (iOS), Jan 09, 2025 (Android), Dec 08, 2022 (Nintendo Switch), Feb 10, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Open your own Card shop by the seaside! Buy, trade and sell Cards, OR keep them for your own collection! Earn reputation with customers, beat your shop goals, unlock new decorations, and host exciting events to bring everyone to the best Card shop in town!

Kardboard Kings: Card Shop Simulator is a Casual, Indie, Simulation and Strategy title released in 2022, priced at $19.99, with an estimated 0 .. 20,000 owners and a Mostly Positive review sentiment (72% of 480 reviews).

72%
positive of 480 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
59/100
IGDB user rating (7 ratings)
3h
time to beat (IGDB)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$19.99
steam price (US)
Kardboard Kings is a single-player management shop-keeper game, which is developed by Henry's House, Oscar Brittain, Rob Gross and published by Akupara Games. Kardboard Kings released on February 10, 2022 to Steam and other PC storefronts. It was later ported to Nintendo Switch on December 8, 2022. The title is translated to English, French, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Simplified Chinese and Russian.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 7 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (167 reviews).
  • · Top 30% of 9,651 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 9.6k–22k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 480 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$9.99-50%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $7.87 at GameBillet (2026-06-26) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 119 of 160 observed days · $2.12 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
12512520222026Week of 2022-02-01: 125 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 42 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$19.99$0.002022-02-032026-08-302022-02-03 — best price $19.992022-04-08 — best price $14.442022-05-31 — best price $15.892022-07-22 — best price $15.992022-09-23 — best price $14.002022-11-18 — best price $15.992023-01-03 — best price $16.122023-02-15 — best price $16.222023-04-10 — best price $14.992023-05-25 — best price $14.692023-07-21 — best price $13.992023-09-14 — best price $13.992023-11-29 — best price $19.992024-01-11 — best price $14.692024-02-24 — best price $19.992024-04-02 — best price $17.402024-05-09 — best price $15.112024-06-27 — best price $8.582024-08-08 — best price $17.402024-10-01 — best price $19.992024-11-22 — best price $11.992025-01-24 — best price $11.992025-03-31 — best price $11.992025-05-08 — best price $19.992025-06-16 — best price $15.112025-07-30 — best price $19.992025-09-09 — best price $11.792025-11-08 — best price $19.992025-12-10 — best price $9.542026-02-11 — best price $9.992026-03-19 — best price $7.952026-04-28 — best price $8.712026-06-01 — best price $9.982026-07-14 — best price $16.842026-08-30 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

19
achievements tracked
70.9%
earned "The Big Books"
16.7%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsCamera ComfortColor AlternativesCustom Volume ControlsPlayable without Timed InputSubtitle OptionsSteam Cloud1 DLC

6 supported languages: English, French, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Russian

Player tags

2DFunnyEconomyTradingStrategyCapitalismManagementSimulationCollectathonConversation

Census log

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

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