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Cardboard Town

80% positive · 2,286 Steam reviews · released Aug 18, 2023 · by Stratera Games, cukuto

BuildingCity BuilderCard GameStylizedSimulationResource ManagementRogue-liteTurn-Based Strategy

What it likely sold — estimate, stated as a range on purpose

Lifetime units: ~75,438 (P10–P90: 30,175 – 165,964)

Gross revenue: ~$1,236,565 ($494,623 – $2,720,449)

Estimate, method v1.0 — before Steam's ~30% share, refunds and VAT. The band means: we'd be surprised if the truth sat outside it. How we estimate

Player voice — measured shares of Steam thumbs, never a model

Last 90 days: 63% positive across 46 stored reviews. Casual games with 100+ reviews typically sit around 86% (median of 4097 games).

Gameplay & mechanics51% positive · 55 mentions
“Honest Review (7 Hours Played) If you enjoy deck-building and cute aesthetics, this game is worth a look. For the average player, though, it’s a harder sell. The game has solid potential but needs better balance and clearer systems. It…”Recommended · Steam review · Jan 2026 · 8 h played
Difficulty & balance49% positive · 49 mentions
“Honest Review (7 Hours Played) If you enjoy deck-building and cute aesthetics, this game is worth a look. For the average player, though, it’s a harder sell. The game has solid potential but needs better balance and clearer systems. It…”Recommended · Steam review · Jan 2026 · 8 h played
Visuals & audio52% positive · 46 mentions
“Honest Review (7 Hours Played) If you enjoy deck-building and cute aesthetics, this game is worth a look. For the average player, though, it’s a harder sell. The game has solid potential but needs better balance and clearer systems. It…”Recommended · Steam review · Jan 2026 · 8 h played
Controls & UI29% positive · 34 mentions
“Not a bad little game, just missing a lot of polish features, for example, why no tooltips? Why cant i see the 'grid size' of cards before i select that i want them? There is a ton of missed oppertunity for informational UI. If it was…”Recommended · Steam review · Feb 2026 · 5 h played
Price & value56% positive · 32 mentions
“Surprisingly fun little roguelite city builder! There's enough going on to keep you engaged without feeling overwhelming. Card choices feel meaningful, perks and disasters are interesting. And the art style is cute and unique, I like how…”Recommended · Steam review · Mar 2025 · 1 h played
Content & longevity67% positive · 30 mentions
“A city builder that isn't built around grinding for more resources and waiting as your city grows. It's really amazing - I'm not even 2 hours in and I really like the games idea. All of your city is based on random cards which gets drawn…”Recommended · Steam review · May 2025 · 5 h played
Performance & stability36% positive · 28 mentions
“Pros Nice art and graphical style It is easy to pick up and play Seems to offer quite a bit of replayability in terms of play modes Cons The first issue I encountered was that the linux build of the game is flawed. There are graphical…”Recommended · Steam review · Jun 2026 · 6 h played

300 recent English reviews stored · topics keyword-matched · topics under 12 mentions stay hidden · methodology

Game DNA — store facts, community tag votes, labeled AI inference

Perspective

Isometric

Art style

StylizedCartoonHand-drawn

How you play together

Single-player

Platform features

AchievementsFull controller supportTrading cardsSteam Cloud

Business model

Buy to play

Sources: Valve store fields · community tag votes · AI-inferred values are marked and drawn from a fixed vocabulary.

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