Cardboard Town
Fair · Roguelike · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 8.8h
- Value
- $2.27/hr
- Reviews
- 80% 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
- 80% ($3.99)
- Last discount ended
- 9 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, NVIDIA GeForce 840M, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $3.99, set in June 2025. Its cuts run 70 percent off as a rule. There have been 30 in the 3 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 9 days ago.
It is pricier than 75 percent of its genre. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Deck of Haunts ($7.99, scores 58) and Stacklands ($7.99, scores 88) both outscore it.
Of the 713 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 20 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 67 percent of the 534 reviews written there were positive, against 80 percent overall, and those are 26 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
73% start to <1% 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
Players
8 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 00:51 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
This game will be nice for people who like card and board games. It's calm and leisurely and is perfect after a tense, busy day. The brief description: This is a deck-management city builder. You will be given several cards to play each turn. Cards will be added to your deck as you progress in the game. To play cards, you need money that is being renewed each turn. The maximum amount of money is increased as the...
This game needs more cards and unlocks. This game is great. Its fun. There is casual challenge. The event system adds some urgency. If you idle to long it switches to a first person tour of your town screen saver. The card pool is tiny. This game would benefit immensely from a card DLC. It feels like the base is there for a synergy rich game play. It just needs the card library capable of filling it out.
Very promising game but lack of onboarding or even tooltips (or explaining what constitutes a card since they call some things cards and it doesn't actually count as one / has a special rule OR something isn't a card but it still blocks certain mechanics). Overall, I see why it deserves the initial negative review and hope to see it get better. EDIT: It does get better when you get used to things but there's a lot...
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Cite this score
Cardboard Town scores 50/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2198070/cardboard-townReviews 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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