Card City Nights

Card City Nights

Worth it · Narrative · 2014

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $9.99.

Length
10.3h
Value
$0.97/hr
Reviews
89% positive
No price makes it a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
10.3h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
14.3h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$0.97
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$9.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
89%
1,009 reviews, as of Sep 27
Players
150K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2014

Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Shader Model 2. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

Card City Nights is not a traditional card-trading game. It's an adventure game with zany characters to meet and weird locations to explore. In the center is our new card battle system that breaks away from the fantasy TCG mold with connecting cards to form combos.
Description from the Steam store page.

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

Raising the score
Value$0.97/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Engagement12% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Reviews89% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 88% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
Length10 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach150K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 112 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

It has never been cheaper than $1.54. That was June 2021. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 44 in the 13 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart.

Value puts it in the top 4 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 69 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 87 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Stacklands ($7.99, scores 88) beats it on value, while it beats Overdungeon ($14.99, scores 51).

Steam's global achievement data puts about 12 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 10.3-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour.

The drop-off

29% start to 12% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

A normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements

Players

2 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 22:51 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

Mainly played it to get all achievements but was pretty enjoyable considering i'm not into card games as much anymore.
smasher891Recommendedafter 10hAug 2026Read on Steam
I just 100% the steam achievements on this game I would say that I enjoyed playing it! I really appreciate the game genre. There isn't a lot of deckbuilder-cardcollectiong-storymode games and I wish there were more! So that is a big plus. The experience of playing it was a bit up and down. I liked it to a start but after a while the Bo5 matches got a bit repetetiv and draged out on the time and it was a bit hard to...
AnypoloRecommendedafter 19hJul 2026Read on Steam
No pressure. Take your time, wander the city building up decks by defeating opponents for booster packs. You can play in a window if you want to multitask. With the right deck build and a little luck you'll own the city.
OblivioRecommendedafter 66hFeb 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Card City Nights scores 73/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/271820/card-city-nights
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Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 27, price as of Oct 1.

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Tags

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Details

DeveloperLudosity
PublisherLudosity
GenreNarrative
Released2014
Achievements8