Card Survival: Tropical Island
Fair · Roguelike · 2022
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $24.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 60h
- Value
- $0.42/hr
- Reviews
- 95% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 50% ($12.49)
- Last discount ended
- 24 days ago
Watch it for a saleSources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, DirectX11 compatible graphics card, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Card Survival is a card-based survival experience. Stranded on a desert island you must use your wits and skills to stay alive. Use cards and combine them together to explore, gather resources and craft useful tools.
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
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $6.99. That was August 2021. Its cuts run 40 percent off as a rule. There have been 38 in the 5 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 3 weeks ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 28 percent on value. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Don't Starve ($9.99, scores 92) beats it on value, while it beats Card Survival: Fantasy Forest ($21.99, scores 39).
3 of the 446 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 74 percent of the 131 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 60 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 245, 4.1 times as much.
The drop-off
87% start to 2% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
I play the game as a normal dude with no traits beyond loner, Ive died so many times in such horrible ways, ive prepared beyond any human would to survive, preparing for multiple catastrophes at once. Ive had a literal football field size amount of cooking pots filled with water, and enough fat and leather to make the entire island a blanket just large enough to hold my fat ass after eating my stores. Ive become...
Card Survival: Tropical Island is a survival crafting game set on a tropical island. Despite the look of it, this isn't a card game, it's just that all the items, structures and animals are represented as cards. In this game you play as a survivor who lands on an island and has to find a way to survive on his own. The game has the usual mechanics of a survival game, you need to look for resources, craft tools, find...
This game destroyed my life. I don't care about my life, I don't care about my work, I don't care about my family. The only thing I care is this game.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Card Survival: Tropical Island scores 67/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The developer disclosed AI-generated content on Steam, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1694420/card-survival-tropical-islandReviews 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 Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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