Cardboard Town on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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 building, city builder and card game game developed by Stratera Games and cukuto and published by Rogue Duck Interactive and Gamersky Games.
Released on August 18th 2023 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 10 languages: English, Turkish, German, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Ukrainian, Spanish - Latin America, Japanese, Korean and Simplified Chinese.

It has received 1,787 reviews of which 1,477 were positive and 310 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.9 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 19.50€ on Steam, but you can find it for 3.99€ on Instant Gaming.

The Steam community has classified Cardboard Town into these genres:

Building City Builder Card Game Stylized Simulation Resource Management Rogue-lite Turn-Based Strategy Strategy Deckbuilding Management Tabletop Solitaire Roguelike Deckbuilder Isometric Card Battler Casual Cartoony Hand-drawn Turn-Based Tactics

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS *: Windows 7
Processor: Intel Pentium CPU G860
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 840M
DirectX: Version 8.0
Storage: 1 GB available space
Additional Notes: 64 Bit

MacOS

OS: Mac OS X 10.6 or above
Processor: Intel 2 GHz
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Graphics: 1280x720 minimum resolution, OpenGL 2.0 Support, and recommended dedicated graphics card with 128 MB of RAM
Storage: 1 GB available space
Additional Notes: Works for Silicon Mac

Linux

OS: Ubuntu 12.04, SteamOS
Processor: 1.7 GHz Processor
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 8 or higher, ATI X1600 or higher, or Intel HD 3000 or higher
Storage: 1 GB available space
Sound Card: OpenAL Compatible Sound Card

User reviews & Ratings

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Dec. 2024

---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☑ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☑ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☑ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☑ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☑ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk ☑ Old Fashioned ☐ Workable ☐ Big ☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☐ Nothing to grind ☑ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☑ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☐ Average ☑ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☑ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☑ Never heard of ☐ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☑ 7 ☐ 8 ☐ 9 ☐ 10

Oct. 2024

It's nice to play a rougelike town management game. Each run feels good and, while you still grow attached to your town, it's nice to create something anew each run. All of the game mechanics are solid though punishing. If the core game is to difficult, there are a lot of other play options that aren't as brutal.

Oct. 2024

Charming, peaceful and fun. A unique combination of sim city and deckbuilding. Good: - Pleasing town visuals. If you're playing well, you can really see how the organization of different structures match a real town. People don't want to live by slums; rich people want yards. It all makes sense. - Awesome piano music. Whoever wrote these songs is no amateur/hobbyist and it shows. While the early learning curve annoyed me, the music kept me calm and made me want to stay. - Decent depth without being extreme. Bad: - Almost nonexistent tutorial. You will straight up have no idea what's going on for the first 20 minutes. Mostly only taught at all after you already just did something wrong, because it teaches you mechanics AFTER you make decisions with new things. Okay?? - Lacking card information for fundamental basics (surrounding zone colors). Eventually you will memorize the info that doesn't show, but why? Occasionally a card simply doesn't say something which is then damning, like if they must attach to a street or not. - Deck viewer SUCKS. You will quickly end up with 50 cards in your deck if you aren't careful and must monitor the balance of your deck. But you can view very few cards at once, and interpreting your whole deck is an utter pain. The UI for this is truly crap and makes this the biggest annoyance in the game. -Sometimes when making an important decision, cannot view hand or other things to plan properly. - LIttle replay value as every run feels basically the same. Different maps/rules helps a little. Most of the problems aren't a big deal once you memorize the cards. And then most of the game is just pleasing. Good stuff mostly. Just not enough replay value.

Sept. 2024

Cardboard Town is combines two of my great loves - strategy games and board games - and creates a fun and addictive gameplay experience that has me up until three in the morning (with work the next day). It's basically a digital version of those awesome card deck board games that let you build out the playfield while throwing in random positive and negative events. I haven't managed to win a game yet, but the game still rewards you with experience points that unlock new town/game modes and new cards or upgrades that keep the gameplay varied. I love it! Give it a try if you are looking for something different from games like Monopoly or Risk.

Aug. 2024

In a world where Slay the Spire exists, it's hard to judge deck builders fairly. Cardboard Town entertained me for a few hours (12 so far), but didn't grip me like StS, Balatro, Cobalt Core, and other more polished games. As of August 2024, I give it my weakest positive rating, but if the developers work on the art and UI they might have something worth getting excited about.

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