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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 11 languages: English, Turkish, German, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Ukrainian, Spanish - Latin America, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.
It has received 1,824 reviews of which 1,503 were positive and 321 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 0.48€ on Gamivo.
The Steam community has classified Cardboard Town into these genres:
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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Coziest roguelike deckbuilder around As avid roguelike deckbuilder (RLDB), i always hunt for any game that can teased my brain. Something about combining puzzles solving and dopamine hit from slot machine that make me craving in multiple games. However, this not like the traditional RLDB where you can specific curate a perfect deck for your run. The game is pretty much a resource management game, where if too many go into negative, you will lose the run. The gameplay is kinda similar to grid-base puzzles, albeit with city building aesthetic. Dont come to this game thinking that you will play it like traditional city builder. The game allowed for some different kind of strategy since you have some upgrades whenever you level, that you can build you strategy around. At least for me there is slow turtle building big stuff and there is spammy cheap / draw playstyle. Both can yield victory, although you also need take notes on your deck size. Everytime you reach some miletones, you will given a booster pack that will bloat your deck. To achieve victory, you will have to go 1 of 3 special resources, each with their own strategy and mega projects. As much as i enjoyed the time playing this game, i can imagine it will be super annoying for many players. First, deck will be super bloated from booster (one of my run get up to 100 cards) , so you pretty much need to learn to thin the deck (one of another run get down to 30 cards) . Main reason is that this doesnt discard your hand (there is alternative mode for that) , instead the default to draw 1 per turn, so you imagine how long it take to cycle your deck. Your hand will get stuck alot too, since most building need to be facing the road and you need to do some planning (usually i do the usual housing / industrial area split). Too bad the game variance and depth arent at the level i wanted, i would say it needed to be tightly designed. tl;dr only buy if you can handle the frustration (i was aiming 100% achievement only) Source : bought on during sale (abit pricey as i can get cheaper AAA games) Alternative games : Concrete Jungle (tetris-ish city builder), Islanders (similar cozy games)
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The graphic design and soundtrack is good enough to attract the players to the game. Resource management and game mechanics are designed well and provides a fine balanced and immersive gaming experience.However, difficulty of redesign the town and disasters leads to a sudden lose and and disappointment.
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---{ 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
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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.
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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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Cardboard Town is currently priced at 19.50€ on Steam.
Cardboard Town is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 19.50€ on Steam.
Cardboard Town received 1,503 positive votes out of a total of 1,824 achieving a rating of 7.90.
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Cardboard Town was developed by Stratera Games and cukuto and published by Rogue Duck Interactive and Gamersky Games.
Cardboard Town is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Cardboard Town is playable and fully supported on MacOS.
Cardboard Town is playable and fully supported on Linux.
Cardboard Town is a single-player game.
Cardboard Town does not currently offer any DLC.
Cardboard Town does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Cardboard Town supports Remote Play on TV and Remote Play Together. Discover more about Steam Remote Play.
Cardboard Town is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
You can find solutions or submit a support ticket by visiting the Steam Support page for Cardboard Town.
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Game modes
Features
Online players
13
Developer
Stratera Games,
cukuto
Publisher
Rogue Duck Interactive,
Gamersky Games
Release
18 Aug 2023
Platforms
Remote Play
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