Cardboard Town

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Cardboard Town is a city-building card game where you manage resources, upgrade buildings, and navigate random events to build the ultimate tabletop metropolis. Cardboard Town has a charmingly aesthetic and hand-drawn art style, but you aren't just mindlessly placing buildings to make a pretty skyline; you are actively managing a complex economy where every decision matters.

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Developer:
Stratera Games
Release date:
18 August 2023
Recent Steam reviews:
Mostly Positive (65)
All Steam reviews:
Very Positive (1969)

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Description

Cardboard Town is a city-building card game where you manage resources, upgrade buildings, and navigate random events to build the ultimate tabletop metropolis.



Cardboard Town has a charmingly aesthetic and hand-drawn art style, but you aren't just mindlessly placing buildings to make a pretty skyline; you are actively managing a complex economy where every decision matters. Every card you play impacts your delicate balance of Water, Electricity, and Safety.

⚡ The Gameplay Loop

  • Draw Your Hand: Each turn gives you new options. Will you expand your residential district or upgrade your power grid?
  • Manage Your Stats: Keep an eye on your Money, Electricity, Water, Environment, and Safety. If your population grows too fast without the infrastructure to support it, things get messy.
  • Survive the Chaos: Random disasters and events will test your planning. Do you have the Action Cards to save the day?
  • Unlock & Upgrade: Earn persistent rewards after every run to beef up your deck for the next attempt.

🃏 A Massive Deck of Possibilities

With over 300+ Building, Action, Quest cards, Festivals, and Upgrades, the combinations are endless. You might build an eco-friendly green paradise in one run, and an industrial powerhouse in the next.
  • Various building cards to build your city from the ground up
  • Action cards to take care of random events and adjust your cards
  • Quest cards to complete and make your people happy
  • Road cards to make cars go wroom wroom

🚨 Three Strikes, You're Out!

The stakes are real. Failing to manage your stats or resolve disasters results in a Red Alert. Accumulate three Red Alerts, and it’s Game Over. Can you beat your high score before the city folds?

🏙️ Roguelite Fun

With different upgrades, random festivals, disasters, and quests; each run is different! Try to beat your high score each time and unlock even more random stuff such as new building cards, festivals, cosmetics and even resources!

Build your cardboard empire today!

Recommended system requirements

minimum*

Requirement 1:
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS *:
Windows 7
Processor:
Intel Pentium CPU G860
Memory:
4 GB RAM
Graphics:
NVIDIA GeForce 840M
DirectX:
Version 8.0
Storage:
1 GB available space
Additional Notes:
64 Bit

recommended*

Requirement 1:
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
Additional Notes:
64 Bit

User reviews

r
Not recommended | 23 Apr 2026
24.4h played

I played this game for about 4 or 5 days and I really like the artstyle and mechanics, the game is really easy to learn, you have some cards that costs money and some money based on your population, your goal is grow up

Helpful: 74
pain2u10
Not recommended | 04 May 2026
33 min played

Really stretching the definition of roguelike deck builder here. The game is a placement puzzle game. there not really meta progression or deck alteration. you are forced to add cards to your deck via "themed" packs,

Helpful: 33
Lightning McFlyzit
Recommended | 05 May 2026
15.3h played

Wadahell is going on with these reviews? This game is fun, unique, and easily good enough to keep you hooked for hours. Feels like some people are trying way too hard to be professional critics. Just try it, it’s really

Helpful: 6
Zanegreenleaf
Not recommended | 25 Mar 2026
2.0h played

I wish I could do mixed on this. The concept is great. As others have said the execution is awful. No way to adjust your deck or remove cards forever from your deck that is super bloated with basically garbage most of

Helpful: 14
Jessica
Recommended | 15 Mar 2026
13.9h played

The game is challenging the first few times as you explore dynamics, but after winning my first on normal mode I managed to win easily on expert using the techniques I learnt along the way. It is not good for someone

Helpful: 7
Veszelka
Recommended | 01 May 2026
23.2h played

I missing only 1 achievment and its secret achiment so i dont see what it is exactly. I googled it and i think the one what i miss is reach lvl 60 mayor. My problem is after i got lvl 45 mayor i got no more xp from

Helpful: 2