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Card Survival: Tropical Island

Card Survival: Tropical Island

Card Survival is a card-based survival experience. Stranded on a desert island you must use your wits and skills to stay alive. Use cards and combine them together to explore, gather resources and craft useful tools.

Released Sep 16, 2022 Developer WinterSpring Games Platforms Windows · Mac SurvivalAdventureCard GameSimulationSingleplayer
View on Steam ↗ $24.99 (US · as of 2026-07-26)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.

95.1%positive2,729 reviews
Recommended · 10 found this helpful

“this is the best game i have ever played in my life. i have over 1,000 hours in it. thats really messed up. it took me 6 years and 395 in-game days, but i finally got my guy to Obese status. The only thing left for me to do is make cheese. I'm going to try the fantasy forest one…”

— a player, Steam review · 1,035 hrs played
Recommended · 2 found this helpful

“I hated this game at first and even refunded it. Then I thought about it for a while and wanted to give it another shot. I don't think its worth full price but I think a try on sale and would be a solid 10-15 dollar game.”

— a player, Steam review · 4 hrs played
Recommended · 2 found this helpful

“This is one of the most replayable fun games I've ever played. It's not easy, but it's deep and enjoyable.”

— a player, Steam review · 994 hrs played
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Player activity

Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-11 13:49 UTC · history via SteamCharts.

390playing at last check
39224-hour peak
2,123all-time peak
0 500 1k 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 909 avg · Dec 2022

Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-07-25.

54achievements
19.0%median completion
1.4%rarest: Return To Monke
87.3% of players 85.4% of players 80.0% of players 74.4% of players 62.9% of players 59.3% of players 58.0% of players 47.2% of players 46.2% of players 46.0% of players 45.8% of players 44.9% of players 41.7% of players 37.0% of players 33.6% of players 31.5% of players 30.4% of players 28.8% of players 27.1% of players 25.5% of players 24.5% of players 22.9% of players 22.1% of players 21.1% of players 20.9% of players 20.1% of players 19.9% of players 19.0% of players 16.0% of players 12.9% of players 12.7% of players 12.1% of players 11.5% of players 11.5% of players 10.8% of players 10.5% of players 9.7% of players 8.3% of players 7.7% of players 6.8% of players 6.7% of players 6.6% of players 6.5% of players 6.5% of players 6.5% of players 6.3% of players 6.3% of players 5.4% of players 4.4% of players 3.8% of players 2.5% of players 2.1% of players 1.6% of players 1.4% of players 87.3% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
87.3%Welcome to the Island! — Eat and drink from a coconut
85.4%Day 1 — Survive for a day
80.0%Secret of Fire — Make a campfire
Rarest badges of honor
1.4%Return To Monke — Have 6 macaque friends and maximum comfort inside the macaque den
1.6%Hard Mode — Win a game with a custom character of at least 10.000pts of difficulty (safety mode NOT allowed)
2.1%Mermaid Victory — Win a game as the Mermaid character

Price tracking

US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-11. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.

$24.99current · sampled 2026-07-26 08:39 UTC
$24.99lowest since tracking began2026-07-11
US24.99 USD
EU20.99 EUR
UK19.49 GBP
Australia35.95 AUD
Canada28.99 CAD
Japan2,570 JPY
Brazil47.49 BRL
China80.00 CNY

Regional prices at last sample, in local currency — Steam sets each region's price independently.

Brazil≈$9.3 China Japan Canada EU US Australia UK≈$26

Cheapest → most expensive, converted to USD at ECB reference rates (2026-07-24). Relative comparison only.

$0 $25 $50 07-11 07-13 07-16 07-19 07-22 07-26

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

Oct 12, 2025
Polish and Hungarian Localization

Hello everyone! A small update today adding two new languages to the game: Polish and Hungarian. Many thanks to Edward Mazur (edward6d) and Sunsetjoy for working on those, we are very happy to finally

Feb 28, 2025
Card Survival: Fantasy Forest is Live!

Hello everyone! Card Survival: Fantasy Forest is finally here. We want to give a very big thanks to all our returning players from Tropical Island, and to all the new ones that are willing to give Fan

Feb 10, 2025
Card Survival: Fantasy Forest - Release Date

Hello everyone! We wanted to let you all know that Card: Survival: Fantasy Forest will be finally releasing on the 28th of February. On-release content includes: Central Forest Area: A forest to explo

Jan 08, 2025
Card Survival: Fantasy Forest - Early Access Release News

Hi everyone! I hope you all had a good start of the year! We wanted to say hi and update you on how we're doing. As some of you know, we started a small closed beta in December and over the past few w

Nov 22, 2024
Card Survival: Fantasy Forest - Early Access Delay

Hello everyone! I hope you're all well. Delays... We wanted to tell you that unfortunately, we won't be able to release Fantasy Forest at the end of November like we wanted. We have been working hard

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Screenshots

Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.

Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.

GenresAdventure, Indie, Simulation, Strategy
Player tagsSurvival · Adventure · Card Game · Simulation · Singleplayer · Crafting · Perma Death · Strategy · Indie · Hand-drawn · Text-Based · Rogue-like (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing
LanguagesEnglish, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Spain, Spanish - Latin America, Korean, German, Turkish, Japanese, French, Hungarian, Polish
Achievements54
Estimated owners50,000 – 100,000 (SteamSpy)
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: OS *: Windows 7, 8, 10+ Processor: SSE2 instruction set support Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: DirectX11 compatible graphics card DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 500 MB available space