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Kardboard Kings: Card Shop Simulator

2022

Should you play it?

Open your own Card shop by the seaside! Buy, trade and sell Cards, OR keep them for your own collection! Earn reputation with customers, beat your shop goals, unlock new decorations, and host exciting events to bring everyone to the best Card shop in town!

What works

  • Addictive and relaxing gameplay loop
  • Charming art style and music
  • Engaging card collection and market mechanics
  • Humorous and quirky characters
  • Responsive developers with ongoing updates

Things to keep in mind

  • Short and abrupt story ending
  • Limited shop customization and expansion
  • Repetitive events and dialogue
  • Bugs and occasional technical issues
  • Minimal depth in card battling and multiplayer

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Papa's Mocharia Deluxe

  • TCG Card Shop Simulator: Prologue

  • Passpartout: The Starving Artist

  • Cats & Cups

  • Gemporium: A Cute Mining Sim

  • Lemon Cake

Less status-driven

Games that feels like Kardboard Kings: Card Shop Simulator but with less focus on status and recognition

  • Minami Lane

  • Rise of Gun

  • Gamer Stop Simulator

  • Dog Brew

  • Winkeltje: The Little Shop

  • The Sims™ Legacy Collection

More leadership-focused

Games that feels like Kardboard Kings: Card Shop Simulator but with more leadership over others

  • Coffee Shop Tycoon

  • Game Dev Tycoon

  • Tavern Keeper 🍻

  • Game Dev Story

  • Dealer's Life 2

  • Weed Shop 3

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  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
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  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Swipe to compare nearby games with Kardboard Kings: Card Shop Simulator. These titles are not in What to play next.

Kardboard Kings: Card Shop Simulator: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Survival, Violence, Competition, Thrill. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Status, Strategy. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Intimacy.

Last update: 21/08/2026