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Casual indie game Cardboard Town targets players looking for a lighter strategy-leaning city experience. It released in 2023 from stratera-games with rogue-duck-interactive as publisher, priced at $19.99 and listed with 1,989 Steam reviews marked mixed.
Overview
Cardboard Town is a 2023 Casual game developed by Stratera Games and published by Rogue Duck Interactive. On Steam it has gathered 2,019 player reviews, 80% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Casual category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Stratera Games with publisher Rogue Duck Interactive is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Casual projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 42,000 to 99,000 units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Cardboard Town can be compared against similar Casual titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
2,019
Positive
80%
Steam appid
2198070
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.042K to 99K
units (median: 71K)
≈ $484K to $1.1M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2023 | 0 |
| price_$20 | 0 |
| positive_80% | 0 |
| genre_Casual | -15 |
| final NB | 35 |
Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review
counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range
is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it,
especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version
v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Cardboard Town at roughly 42,000 to 99,000 copies, with a median around 71,000, derived from its 2,019 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $807K in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
9 observed days · window low $19.99Across 9 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-07-23, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $19.99 to $19.99. The tracked-window low was $19.99 on 2026-07-15.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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- GOG.com
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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Genres
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Cardboard Town sold?
- indielist estimates Cardboard Town has sold between 42,399 and 98,931 units (median 70,665), derived from its 2,019 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Cardboard Town?
- Cardboard Town was developed by Stratera Games and published by Rogue Duck Interactive.
- Who published Cardboard Town?
- Cardboard Town was published by Rogue Duck Interactive, developed by Stratera Games. See Rogue Duck Interactive's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Cardboard Town released?
- Cardboard Town was released in 2023.
- How many reviews does Cardboard Town have on Steam?
- Cardboard Town has 2,019 Steam reviews, of which 80% are positive.
- Is Cardboard Town worth playing?
- Steam players rate Cardboard Town 80% positive across 2,019 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like Cardboard Town can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Casual titles such as Garry's Mod, Wallpaper Engine, Factorio, Balatro, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Stratera Games's other releases and Rogue Duck Interactive's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Cardboard Town sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Cardboard Town page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Casual game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.
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