- Get Cardboard Town 80% off during Deckbuilders Fest! - 5 May 2026
Hey Mayors! The Steam Deckbuilders Fest is here, and Cardboard Town is joining the celebration with a massive 80% discount! 🃏 Build your town, manage your cards, and make tough decisions as you shape your cardboard town. Every choice matters, and every card can change your run. Deckbuilders Fest is the perfect time to jump in if you enjoy: • Strategic card play • Roguelike decision making • Building something that grows with every run What to expect • Unique deckbuilding + city building hybrid • Tons of cards to discover and combine • Runs that evolve based on your choices If you’ve been waiting for the right moment, this is it. Grab Cardboard Town at 80% off and start building your own story today!
- 🏆 Help Us Win a Steam Award! - 27 November 2025
Dear Players,Thank you for your unwavering support! This year, Cardboard Town is eligible for the Steam Awards, and we would be honored to have your nomination! 🙏🌟 Our Dedication to the ExperienceRapid iteration based on community feedbackContinuous polishing of art, gameplay, and performanceReworking old systems and adding new mechanicsIf you feel this persistence deserves to be seen, please nominate us for the Labor of Love award.🗳️ How to VoteIf you are willing to support us, please go to the Nominate Section at the top of this announcement (or on the Store Page).Please nominate us for:Labor of Love❤️ Your Support Means EverythingEvery single vote fuels our passion to keep creating, updating, and perfecting the game.Whether it's a nomination or a review on the store page, we appreciate you being part of our community.Thank you for being with us. Let's make a splash at the Steam Aw…
- Cardboard Town v1.4.0 - Booster Packs Update - 7 June 2025
Hi Mayors! With this Major Free Update we are adding to the game: - New System: Booster Packs - 4 Booster Packs - 2 New Buildings - 2 New Action Cards With this update, we are introducing Booster Packs which will let you choose a category and create cards from that category in your hand. Booster Packs "Available at all times" way to get these Booster Packs is via Star Quests. Now whenever you complete a Star Quest, you'll be presented with 3 Booster Pack options. The Booster Packs are: - Housing Booster: Gain 3 Random Population Buildings - Essentials Booster: 1 Water, 1 Electricity, 1 Random Resource Building - Action Booster: 3 Random Action Cards - Luxury Booster: 3 Buildings that cost 7 or more. If you like the concept, we can add more booster packs in the future, so make sure to let us know! New Cards Booster Pack Factory Spend a lot of resources to gain a Booster Pack! Memorial Pa…
- Celebrating 100,000 Downloads with a New Update! - 23 March 2025
Hey Mayors, Thank you so much for 100,000 Downloads! We keep saying we are done updating the game and it's complete, but your love keeps making us come back and we have a new update on the way for you! Before we jump into that, we'd also like to announce Cardboard Town is joining Steam City Builders & Colony Sim Fest with our deepest discount! And talking about city builders, in case you missed them, just letting you know that we have a lot of them: Stellar Settlers - A Space Colony Builder Mini City: Mayhem - A hectic, cute town builder Hexaroma - Chill village builder Kingdom's Deck - An upcoming deck / castle builder You can get them as a bundle and save, don't forget to wait for the festival to start for a better discount! Booster Pack Update is on the Way! Our next (and maybe really final this time?) update is called The Booster Pack Update. We are working on it to release as a fre…
- v1.3.2 - New Cards Against Deck Bloat - 2 November 2024
You thought days of update for Cardboard Town are over? Well, we thought so too. After we've parted ways with the game's artist and tired from developing the game from all these months, we wanted to focus on our newer titles. But as we had the chance to take a little break from Cardboard Town and studying the style of the game with our new team members, we've wanted to add some new stuff to make the game even better!! Cards Against Deck Bloat To have a functioning city, you need many different cards. But many cards means you have less control over your deck. We've heard your feedback on this and thought it would be a good idea to fight this with even more cards. Jokes aside, our 2 new buildings (which are in the Starting Deck now) let you destroy some cards, so you can get rid of ones that you don't want in your deck. Asphalt Factory It's a cheap building that lets you have some pocket…
- Steam Next Fest Strategy Game Demos by Rogue Duck! - 14 October 2024
During the Steam Next Fest, we have 4 free game demos up for you to try out. If you played a game published by Rogue Duck Interactive before, you probably love replayable strategy games! Let me start introducing our games, during the Next Fest, download the demos you are interested and become part of the development by giving us your valueable feedback. New Next Fest Strategy Demos https://store.steampowered.com/app/2517440/Mini_City_Mayhem/ A city builder where you race against time to build your city! Become the mayor of a tiny town, plop down tiny building blocks to build a working city to progress. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3179860/Pairs__Perils/ A memory-game roguelike and dungeon crawler. Match cards to attack enemies, avoid traps, shop for relics and consumables. Sharpen your mind as you journey through the depths of the dungeon in search of The Dealer. https://store.ste…
- v1.3.1 - Small Bug Fix Update - 19 June 2024
Hey Mayors! We are with you with a small QoL Update. Here's what's new: - Limitless countdown for resource quest cards - Windowed mode localization - Fixed Tourism achievement - Fixed Max level achievement - AchievementBackup system implemented - Add a new video entry as Tourism Tutorial - Small card interaction bug-fixes We hope you are enjoying the latest Tourism Update. Let us know if you have requests or feedback about the current patch and don't forget to Join us in Discord or follow us on X to stay in touch!
- v1.3 - Tourism Update! - 4 May 2024
Hello Mayors, Our team was hard at work and so our biggest and final content update is finally here! We have; - New Resource (Tourism) - Custom Game Mode - New Buildings - New Festivals - New Disasters - Balance Changes - Initial Deck Management Improvements - Star Quest Changes - Translation Improvement - A New Ending! How does Tourism work? It is our third Bonus Resource after Industry and Education and it usually increases via expensive buildings like Casinos and decreases whenever a disaster happens. Tourism is mostly about Money management (sell your resources to go above your maximum Money or play action cards that leverage long term effects) and Safety management as you need to keep disasters away to keep your City tour-able! Office Buildings for Bonus Resources To improve your chances of managing an extra resource that you've unlocked, now you get an Office Building for that spe…
- Cardboard Town in Steam Deckbuilders Fest! - 25 March 2024
Hey Mayors! We are participating in Deckbuilders Fest of Steam, if you like deckbuilder games, give the event page a look, and most importantly, let your friends know that Cardboard Town is at a discount of -55% during the event!
- v1.2.7 - Hotfix for Star Quest Reroll - 20 March 2024
Hey Mayors, The recently introduced quest reroll card had a case where it locked the game progress. Sorry it took us long to figure reproduce and figure out the issue. We fixed this issue on the latest version. Have fun! Also looking forward to your submissions on the Leaderboards!
- v1.2.6 - Leaderboards (and Beta Custom Mode) - 14 March 2024
Hey Mayors! We wanted to release some more content while we are working on our "Big Update"! Leaderboards and Custom Mode. Let's get into it. Leaderboards We wanted to create some competition between the mayors. May the one with highest number of votes rise to fame in the Leaderboards! After you finish a run and feel confident, submit your vote score (by using the button on the end screen) to the leaderboard. Every game mode has it's own Leaderboard. Play the mode that you are best at or if you to put your name on each one of them, conquer them all :) Custom Mode (Beta) We started developing a mode that allows you to make your own rules! Tweak the values of the game and create your dream Cardboard Town challenge. For now, it is in beta, and we made it a meta unlock for level 21. Later on we will make it available early on in the game. If you are an experienced Cardboard Town player with…
- v1.2.5 - New Card is Here & Bug Fixes - 29 February 2024
Hello there, we're with you with a small but important update! New card: Wish Upon A Star This card enables you to reroll your Star Quest. Sometimes players were unhappy with the quests they received and "didn't want to go that way" and in extreme cases; game could get stuck (E.g; Quest wants you to play 5 Cards in a day but you've got the Going Slow upgrade, limiting your daily cards to 3) With the Wish Upon A Star card, you can either immediately reroll the first quest that you get or hold on to it strategically. New Disaster: Communist Strike Who doesn't love a new disaster, right? R-right? Anyway, a new disaster is probably better then an old disaster. As Sana have said recently; "Gimme that New New!" so we're giving you the New New. So what does the disaster do? Communist Strike: At the start of your day; Discard your most expensive card, draw a new card, lose 1 Money. It's not ver…
- v1.2.0 - Sandbox Mode & Other Mode Updates - 16 December 2023
Okay, okay, we've heard you! Sandbox mode is here! You don't want to worry about red alerts, resources, or even just READING THE CARDS and that's... okay i guess. Go ahead and build whatever you want! Introducing Sandbox Mode Build your dream Town made out of Cardboard in this mode without any hassle! For a short while, we've made Sandbox Mode available for everybody to test it out. In this mode; you'll be able to draw any road or building card you want and use it without any money or resource requirement! In the original version it will be unlocked on Mayor Level 16, which does not take long to reach to, especially in standard modes. Sandbox mode screenshots already started to come in! If you give it a try, share your screenshots with us on Twitter @strateragames Unlocking New Modes - System Change In the previous version, this is how the modes were unlocked: - Mayor Level: 2 Modes - R…
- v1.1.0 - Goodbye Troubles, Hello Crisis Cards & POV Mode! - 14 November 2023
Hello everyone! You said more control, less RNG, we listened! Let's start by celebrating the update with a 40% Discount starting November 14th 10 AM PST until the end of the Steam Autumn Sale! We have a few headlines today so let's get right into the case: Goodbye, Troubles! We know how much you hate the troubles (those small disturbances that happen on 3rd turn of the Trouble-Meter) and annoyance it brings. Troubles were here to; - Provide challenge to players - Make sure resetting / reducing the Trouble-Meter had to be done with care - Add a fun randomness to the game However, they had too much emphasis for being such a small disturbance. E.g; You had to look out when you were building a Police Station just to avoid a -1 hit to your Envirorment score, which doesn't feel very nice. Or you'd get a notification every couple of turns, which could be annoying / distracting. Things like tha…
- v1.0.8 - Quality of Life & Balance Update - 16 September 2023
Steam Trading Cards & More Cardboard Town is now eligible for Trading cards! Keep playing the game to drop Trading Cards! Collect them all to get badges, emojis and profile backgrounds. Gameplay Updates Fire-Fighting card was available since the first build, fire itself however... Was problematic and never available in the main version. Well, no more; it's time to burn down the city!! 🔥🔥 Try to take care of the fire early on or it might spread. It doesn't destroy buildings; but each active fire has a chance to burn down your resources. QoL Updates Now when you hit all Red-Alerts; instead of an instant game-over; you get a final warning and lose the game only if you end the game with all Red-Alerts lit. When you hover a card, it shows the building tile size, so you can pick which building to place with all the information at your disposal. We saw that sometimes players try to drag and…
- v1.0.7 - Post 1.0 Release Updates 3 - 23 August 2023
As always, thank you for your continuous support, we are also thankful that the reviews about the balance of the game are getting better with our last 2 updates. But we will move things around till it's PERFECT! We noticed the same issue the community did, that the player agency of the runs is not quite how we want it to be. In order to address this, we made some changes, which will also spice up the early stages of the run, and break the repetitive feel for the early game by creating agency and variety. - Player now offered 3 cards to choose at the end of Day 1-2-3 (different types) for early game agency - Game Over condition checks happen at the end of the day instead of instantly - “Scan and Print” now will get destroyed after playing - “Smart Solutions” now triggers at Max 5 times (was unlimited) - Fixed some issues with fonts and UI - Mayor button tutorial triggers at a better time…
- v1.0.6 - Post 1.0 release Update 2 - 21 August 2023
Thank you for the amazing support and attention from all the community. We closely follow the community response and made some balance changes & bug fixes. We balanced Classic mode to be more starter friendly with extra resources and Officers, and added a new mode called "Expert" which is more challenging and gives more Votes. Added "Got It" checkbox on every tutorial screen, which will hide that specific tutorial information panel forever when you check it before pressing Okay. We added an animation to make it more clear that -20 resource is a game over condition. Game is now more comfortable to play on a wide screen monitor. Fixes on missing translations. Balances on modes other than Classic. Added resizeable Windowed Mode. Don't hesitate to send us a Steam comment on this post or via [email protected] if you would like to share the bugs, issues or recommendations you have.
- v1.0.5 - Post full release bugfixes - 19 August 2023
Thank you for the amazing support and attention from all the community. We love your feedback and our first priority on working on this weekend rush was to fix the emerging bugs. Fixed a bug causing the music loop to play the same music during a run Fixed "Tesla Coil" sfx being way too strong. Fixed "Utopia" mode starting resources. Now you can use "Enter" instead of Next Day button. Balanced the level-up requirement for 2-3-4th levels to speed up early game. Fixed an issue in MacOS causing the tooltip to block Next Day button. Fixed an issue causing different resolutions than 1080p to have different UI element sized, like tooltips and main menu mode buttons. Added drag-to-move the map, and balanced the zoom amount for Mac OS. Don't hesitate to send us a Steam comment on this post or via [email protected] if you would like to share the bugs, issues or recommendations you have.
- Cardboard Town 1.0 is here! - 18 August 2023
Cardboard Town 1.0 is finally here! Game Modes, Mega-Projects, New systems and more! We'll update the game and also launch a 30% Release discount starting August 18th - 20:00 UTC+3 Time Let's look at our new features before talking about the upcoming updates: Mega Project Buildings You can finally win the game! There are currently two different "Final Buildings" that we call Mega Projects; complete the Star Quests in a run, obtain the Mega Project cards, build it and win the game! Mega Projects are linked to Bonus Resources; Education or Industry. Final building will depend on which resource you've unlocked. If you have both, then you'll obtain a random Mega Project for the end-game. As we add more Bonus Resources in the future, you'll have more Mega Projects and more end-game conditions! And don't worry, you can continue your run and gain your Votes after building the Mega Project! But…
- Industry Update: New Cards are Here! - 8 June 2023
Welcome to the Industry Update! We have bunch of new cards and new combos to explore in Cardboard Town with the Level 51 resource: Industry. New Resource: Industry 7 New Industry Buildings 11 New Industry Action Cards 1 New Population Building 4 New Industry Upgrades 3 New Festival 5 New Meta Progression Levels Bigger Map! A furry friend
