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

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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 440 reviews of which 319 were positive and 121 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 0.49€ on Gamivo.

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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May 2025
Have you ever wanted to sell singles and make SO MUCH PROFIT? Well now you can do that AND question reality as the background stories all tear at your attention span. 10/10
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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.
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Oct. 2024
Easy and fun little game
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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 :)
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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!
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Kardboard Kings: Card Shop Simulator is currently priced at 19.50€ on Steam.

Kardboard Kings: Card Shop Simulator is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 19.50€ on Steam.

Kardboard Kings: Card Shop Simulator received 319 positive votes out of a total of 440 achieving a rating of 6.89.
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Kardboard Kings: Card Shop Simulator was developed by Henry's House, Oscar Brittain and Rob Gross and published by Akupara Games.

Kardboard Kings: Card Shop Simulator is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Kardboard Kings: Card Shop Simulator is not playable on MacOS.

Kardboard Kings: Card Shop Simulator is not playable on Linux.

Kardboard Kings: Card Shop Simulator is a single-player game.

There is a DLC available for Kardboard Kings: Card Shop Simulator. Explore additional content available for Kardboard Kings: Card Shop Simulator on Steam.

Kardboard Kings: Card Shop Simulator does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Kardboard Kings: Card Shop Simulator does not support Steam Remote Play.

Kardboard Kings: Card Shop Simulator 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.

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Kardboard Kings: Card Shop Simulator
19.50€ -98% 19.50€ 0.49€
6.9
319
121
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Henry's House, Oscar Brittain, Rob Gross
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Akupara Games
Release 10 Feb 2022
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