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Beneath the Cardboard: Be Happy
Welcome to a reimagining of Beneath the Cardboard, a fairytale-themed tale of things not so fairytale-like... Survive countless cold nights in Snow Town, a place where no one will look at you twice.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-26.
“when i played it , i got really nostalgic shock, and im really returned to my childhood, i can say, This is The Best Survival Game EVER!, because i love music of this game (ye i bought this game with Soundtrack bundle), gameplay is easy and mobile, anyone can play this. + i…”
— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs playedAchievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-26.
Latest official news
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Quality of Variety Coldfix 1
Piero's "Casual Performance" musical theme now restores 2% of the player's temperature and hunger every 2 seconds the soundtrack plays. Bugfixes: You can no longer die during the interaction with Pier
Update 0.5.9 Quality of Variety
Items General The textures and models of some food items have been changed, and a new one has been added: Candy, Condensed Milk, and Christmas Candy. Other items have also been modified. Descriptions
It's time for the Steam Workshop, and Update 0.5.6
Mod Support and Steam Workshop We tested out the modding system in nightly branch for several days with several players interested in modding. Good news, it's now available in the public branch! Initi
False Promises Coldfix 2
- Fixed a save bug - Fixed food textures - Fixed the display of footprints on non-snow surfaces and the sounds of walking on snow on asphalt - Fixed collisions between food and lanterns - Fixed hand o
Update 0.5.5 Promises of Warm Light
IImproved Environment The lightning was changed in favor of warmer tones, new street lamps with reworked models were added to the map and locations now more detailed. Improved visualization of weather
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-26.
| Genres | Adventure, Indie, Simulation, Early Access |
| Player tags | Exploration · Survival · Walking Simulator · Snow · 3D · First-Person · Atmospheric · Sandbox · Surreal · Dark · Horror · Conversation (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · Co-op · Online Co-op · Steam Achievements · Steam Workshop · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, Russian, German, Ukrainian |
| Achievements | 16 |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 7/8/10/11 x64 Processor: Quad-core Intel or AMD, 2.5 GHz or faster Memory: 2 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA Geforce GT 1030 (2 GB) / AMD Radeon RX 550 (2 GB) DirectX: Version 12 Storage: 1 GB available space VR Support: Not Yet. Additional Notes: Vulkan may perform better than DirectX 12