Kardboard Kings: Card Shop Simulator on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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 funny, 2d and capitalism game developed by Henry's House, Oscar Brittain and Rob Gross and published by Akupara Games.
Released on February 10th 2022 is available only on Windows in 6 languages: English, French, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Simplified Chinese and Russian.

It has received 437 reviews of which 318 were positive and 119 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.9 out of 10. 😐

The game is currently priced at 19.50€ on Steam, but you can find it for 5.60€ on Instant Gaming.

The Steam community has classified Kardboard Kings: Card Shop Simulator into these genres:

Funny 2D Capitalism Trading Resource Management Economy Management Visual Novel Strategy Inventory Management Time Management Simulation Conversation Immersive Sim Collectathon LGBTQ+ Story Rich Cartoon Singleplayer Casual

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System requirements

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Windows

OS: Windows 10
Processor: 3rd Gen i3/AMD FX-4100 Series
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: GeForce 7 Series/Radeon R7 Series
Storage: 2 GB available space

User reviews & Ratings

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March 2025

This game feels like a B+ rough draft of a game. There's some surprise adult humor in here, if that's a turn off for you. The game's story ends just as you get into the flow of how everything works, and while you can unlock Card Island, it's clearly an after thought to the rest of the game. I would be very interested in a sequel to this game more so than more content for this game. I will admit that after HOURS of enjoying this game, my taste was soured when a child NPC asked me for some beers on the island. I'm not a prude by any means, and I get he's a brat, but I didn't expect him to be a beer bum. Hard to recommend the game, especially if it's such a niche interest, but I do encourage people to give it a try.

Aug. 2024

I adore this game, it's just the right mix of casual and challenging. You run a card shop and try to keep ahead of trends to make a good profit. E.g. a pro player says they love a certain deck, so the price of those specific cards goes up. McDonalds gives cards away in a free promotion, so they lose value. You are constantly scouring eBay looking for a good deal on cards you can then sell in your shop. It sounds simple but once several trends are in play at once it can be challenging to keep on top of things. There are quite a lot of traits that can effect the value of a card - what set is it from? How strong is it? Is it in good condition? Is it a foil card? Are cards with that ability popular in tournaments right now? etc, etc There are lots of other things you can do like host tournaments, booster pack parties, clearance sales, etc. You get special orders by phone, and can earn decorations by completing mini-objectives. None of these are super in-depth, but still help add dimension to the game and make it more immersive. I thought the story and characters in the game were charming, and hilarious. There is a lot of sarcasm and references to popular card games or anime. The only draw-back of the game is that there is only a couple of hours of story content available. You can continue running the store, new card sets will still get released every so often (there are LOADS of sets), but the game definitely suffers from losing it's overarching plot. The most appealing objective in the game for me is collecting a foil version of every card in the game, but this takes a reeeeeally long time to actually achieve. I've gone for this twice now and end up quitting at roughly the 5 hour mark when the game just gets too repetitive to continue. There are no long-term goals you are saving money for or anything so it's easy to lose motivation. They did add a battle mode where you can actually play the card game, but it's not very compelling. I think the price is a bit high for essentially having 5 hours of gameplay, though I can see myself doing additional playthroughs every now and then as I enjoyed it so much. I dream of a sequel to this game with a long story, shop upgrades, extra mechanics etc :)

Aug. 2024

I've been playing for 4.7 hours as of writing my review, and my impression of the game has been really positive. I love the mini-storyline, which contains humor but is a bit short, along with the unique characters, cards, and decorations for your card shop. I've been searching for a game that represents a trading card gameplay experience, and Kardboard Kings does a perfect job. It includes different types of rarities, decks, abilities, and more for each card. There is also news to keep track of changes within the cards that greatly affect their prices, and the game features a battle mode where you can experience combat with the Warlock deck. Of course, there is one negative aspect within the game, but it can vary from person to person. For me, it’s the reputation system, which has a huge impact on running a successful card shop. I feel there could have been a better way to include it without such a big negative impact. Overall, the game is great. The art and music are extremely well done by the developers from Akupara Games studios. I would recommend this game to any TCG player!

May 2024

I had a very good time, the artwork and card descriptions always make me smile. I wished there was more story content in the game, though.

April 2024

Fun way to live put your lgs operating dreams and cracking packs is just as addicting as it is irl! Definitely recommend to anyone who enjoys tcg’s!

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