Card Hog
Worth it · Roguelike · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $5.99.
- Length
- 5.8h 17.6h to 100%
- Value
- $1.03/hr
- Reviews
- 94% of 553 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
Card Hog is a pig-based dungeon crawler with roguelike and deck building elements. Take the role of an adventurous hog and interact with more than 100 cards of dangerous enemies, powerful weapons and exciting spells!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 128MB. Windows only.
The value story
57 discounts in the 6 years on record, a median of 40 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 18 percent on value. It is cheaper than 77 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 87 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Balatro ($14.99, scores 95) beats it on value, while it beats Backpack Hero ($9.99, scores 67).
More about Card Hog
None of the 329 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2020 to June 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 88 percent of the 156 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 34 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 5.8 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 18, 3.0 times as much.
The drop-off
65% start to 14% finishA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
Card Hog is an incredibly simple and quick roguelike that plays similar to that 2048 mobile game. I'm typically against the roguelike genre as being lazy and repetitive, but this is just a basic experience that has tons of layered and unique moments that add to the goofy combat. It's cute, to the punch, and doesn't add slop or randomness for the sake of extending playtime.
2 more reviews
Wow, what an overlooked gem. A very fun game solo, with a few different modes to play with. But it also has co-op which is a lot of fun and adds even more life to the game. I only found it because of a sale, but it's worth the 5 bucks easily. Basic gameplay is you move around a grid of cards, picking up weapons to kill enemies, until you eventually get surrounded and have to take health damage to keep going. There's...
You start on a 4 x 4 grid with a deck of 30 Ish cards. The deck is infinite, so the purpose of the cards is to improve your odds, like if you pick up a sword, then you're more likely to get a sword the next time you burn a card which happens every time you move across the grid I can't do this game justice and y'all should appreciate the fact that I am trying to type this out on my steam deck keyboard and it took me...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Cite this score
Card Hog scores 71/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1163740/card-hogReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 1, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.