Card Survival: Tropical Island
Card-based island survival simulation with detailed needs and crafting
WinterSpring Games · Released Sep 16, 2022
AdventureIndieSimulationStrategy
- Reviews
- Very Positive
- 95% of 3,063
- Recent reviews
- Very Positive
- 91% of 23 in 30 days
- Playing now
- 181
- right now
- Steam Deck
- Playable
- Last update
- 2 years ago
- Mar 25, 2024
What is Card Survival: Tropical Island?
A single-player, card-based survival simulation about a castaway on a tropical island. You explore environments, gather materials, combine cards to craft and build, and manage nutrition, water, injuries, illness, morale, and other physical and psychological conditions.
For you if...
- +you enjoy demanding survival systems and detailed health management
- +you like crafting, farming, and planning for long runs
- +you want replayability through character traits and starting conditions
Not for you if...
- −you want fast progression with little routine upkeep
- −you prefer forgiving survival without permanent failure
- −you prefer direct control over a card-based interface
What players say
95% of 3,063 reviews are positive · 91% of 23 in the last 30 days
Players praise the detailed survival simulation, character customization, replayability, and long-term planning. Common complaints focus on food and water upkeep slowing progress, cumbersome card handling, and poorly explained interface elements.
Screenshots and trailer
Card Survival: Tropical Island system requirements
As published by the developer.
Minimum
- OS
- Windows 7, 8, 10+
- Processor
- SSE2 instruction set support
- Graphics
- DirectX11 compatible graphics card
- Memory
- 4 GB RAM
- Storage
- 500 MB available space
- DirectX
- Version 11
PC version details
DRM, required accounts, controller support and Steam features.
- DRM
- None declared on Steam
- Controller
- Keyboard and mouse
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS
- Achievements
- 54
- Steam features
- Cloud saves, Family Sharing
Steam Deck: Playable
- Some text entry requires manually opening the on-screen keyboard
- Some in-game text is small and may be hard to read
- All functionality is accessible with the default controller configuration
- Default graphics settings perform well on Steam Deck
Multiplayer and co-op
Languages
Text only: English, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Spain, Spanish - Latin America, Korean, German, Turkish, Japanese, French, Hungarian, Polish.
Tags
- Survival
- Card Game
- Adventure
- Simulation
- Singleplayer
- Crafting
- Perma Death
- Strategy
- Hand-drawn
- Indie
- Text-Based
- Open World Survival Craft
- Roguelike
- Turn-Based
- Resource Management
- Psychological Horror
Recent updates
- Mar 25, 2024 · Card Survival: Tropical Island French translation
- Feb 9, 2024 · Card Survival: Tropical Island - Japanese Localization
- Dec 14, 2023 · Turkish Localization for Card Survival: Tropical Island
- Aug 28, 2023 · Card Survival: Tropical Island in German!
- Jul 11, 2023 · Card Survival: Tropical Island in Korean!
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