Card Survival: Fantasy Forest
WinterSpring Games · 2025 · Simulation, Open World Survival Craft, Survival, Life Sim, Sandbox
PC
Mostly Positive75% · 1,114 📈 Making a comeback 92%
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About Card Survival: Fantasy Forest
Card Survival: Fantasy Forest is a card-based deep survival simulator and the next installment in the Card Survival Series.
Experience what life would be like in the primordial forests of old. Carve out a home in a world teeming with beasts, spirits and monsters - where humans have yet to find their place.
Simple but deep System:
A deep and detailed survival simulator in a visual card-based format that benefits from its mechanical simplicity and the power of your imagination.
All interactions are done by using cards or combining them together.
A Living Forest Ecosystem:
Engage with a complex ecosystem featuring dynamically simulated forces (including animal and plant populations) that operate autonomously yet can be meaningfully influenced by your actions. Experience the cyclical nature of life through four distinct seasons and a full weather system.
Realistic Character Simulation:
Simulating the digestive and immune systems, detailed wounds and healing processes, and a mental health model that includes anxiety, mania, depression and altered mind states. Tracking everything from body weight, to calluses, stool consistency and more.
Herbalism:
Forage for different plants, learning where and when to find them, their uses and cultivation methods. Brew and prepare concoctions ranging from immune system boosters to stimulants, analgesics and spiritual enhancers.
Agriculture:
Cultivate a diverse range of crops, considering factors like season, soil nutrients, humidity and light and wind exposure. Utilize different preservation methods to preserve your harvests throughout the year. Grow animal feed, grains for bread and alcohol, seeds for oil, fibers for textiles and more.
Hunting:
Employ traps, spears, and bows to hunt a variety of animals, from small game to dangerous predators and even some of the unique beasts that roam the deeper parts of the forest.
Animal Husbandry:
Raise chicken, pigs, sheep and cows for products like milk, wool or eggs, or slaughter them for their meat and leather. Ensure their safety and comfort by building suitable facilities and attending to their health and well-being.
Cooking:
Create an array of dishes using ingredients like vegetables, fish, meat, cereal and dairy. The taste of your meals will depend on ingredient freshness and quality, spice choice, utensils and your own culinary skills.
Crafting:
Gain proficiency in woodworking, stone knapping, pottery, metalworking and tailoring to create a multitude of different tools and items. Craft your own tools, furniture, clothes, weapons, instruments and decorations.
Building:
Build yourself a forest dwelling, ranging from a rustic hut out of mud and reeds to a cozy wooden cottage. Add extra rooms, improve its insulation, fill it with comfortable and practical furniture and make it yours with meaningful trophies and decorations.
Combat:
Engage in fights against wild animals, monsters and spirits using diverse weapons, skills and techniques. Fight beasts after tracking them through the woods, defend yourself in ambushes or defeat any obstacles in front of you. Overcome your enemies by inflicting fatal wounds or by breaking their will to fight.
Magic:
A grounded, complex and creative system centered around the interaction with elemental, bestial and conceptual spirits. Bind spirits to your soul to gain new abilities, albeit at a personal cost, or craft magical items by trapping spirits within.
Experience what life would be like in the primordial forests of old. Carve out a home in a world teeming with beasts, spirits and monsters - where humans have yet to find their place.
Key Features:
Simple but deep System:
A deep and detailed survival simulator in a visual card-based format that benefits from its mechanical simplicity and the power of your imagination.
All interactions are done by using cards or combining them together.
A Living Forest Ecosystem:
Engage with a complex ecosystem featuring dynamically simulated forces (including animal and plant populations) that operate autonomously yet can be meaningfully influenced by your actions. Experience the cyclical nature of life through four distinct seasons and a full weather system.
Realistic Character Simulation:
Simulating the digestive and immune systems, detailed wounds and healing processes, and a mental health model that includes anxiety, mania, depression and altered mind states. Tracking everything from body weight, to calluses, stool consistency and more.
A large variety of content including:
Herbalism:
Forage for different plants, learning where and when to find them, their uses and cultivation methods. Brew and prepare concoctions ranging from immune system boosters to stimulants, analgesics and spiritual enhancers.
Agriculture:
Cultivate a diverse range of crops, considering factors like season, soil nutrients, humidity and light and wind exposure. Utilize different preservation methods to preserve your harvests throughout the year. Grow animal feed, grains for bread and alcohol, seeds for oil, fibers for textiles and more.
Hunting:
Employ traps, spears, and bows to hunt a variety of animals, from small game to dangerous predators and even some of the unique beasts that roam the deeper parts of the forest.
Animal Husbandry:
Raise chicken, pigs, sheep and cows for products like milk, wool or eggs, or slaughter them for their meat and leather. Ensure their safety and comfort by building suitable facilities and attending to their health and well-being.
Cooking:
Create an array of dishes using ingredients like vegetables, fish, meat, cereal and dairy. The taste of your meals will depend on ingredient freshness and quality, spice choice, utensils and your own culinary skills.
Crafting:
Gain proficiency in woodworking, stone knapping, pottery, metalworking and tailoring to create a multitude of different tools and items. Craft your own tools, furniture, clothes, weapons, instruments and decorations.
Building:
Build yourself a forest dwelling, ranging from a rustic hut out of mud and reeds to a cozy wooden cottage. Add extra rooms, improve its insulation, fill it with comfortable and practical furniture and make it yours with meaningful trophies and decorations.
Combat:
Engage in fights against wild animals, monsters and spirits using diverse weapons, skills and techniques. Fight beasts after tracking them through the woods, defend yourself in ambushes or defeat any obstacles in front of you. Overcome your enemies by inflicting fatal wounds or by breaking their will to fight.
Magic:
A grounded, complex and creative system centered around the interaction with elemental, bestial and conceptual spirits. Bind spirits to your soul to gain new abilities, albeit at a personal cost, or craft magical items by trapping spirits within.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
✦ AI summary
Players praise the game's impressive depth and whimsical yet realistic design that expands significantly on its predecessor, with many becoming deeply invested despite its flaws. However, common complaints center on poor communication of game mechanics, lack of in-game explanations forcing players to rely on external wikis, occasional balance issues that can feel unfair, and tedious navigation on large maps that can lead to frustration and lost progress.
I like this game. I have put a lot of hours into it, and I'll likely put in a lot more. But, in its current state, I cannot recommend it. It simply refuses to communicate its mechanics. To play this game, you have to accept that you will spend a fair amount of time fighting the systems and losing until you understand them. And even basic game elements are entirely unexplained. This game's major malfunction is that it doesn't have a way to answer questions. It has a wiki, but it's pretty bare bones. The Steam discussion threads and guides can be helpful, but much of that is out of date. The only clear information on a lot of subjects is in updates, which are entirely un-indexed and un-searchable. The previous game, Card Survival: Tropical Island, had a library system, where you could look up information on the game's systems. But it's entirely absent from the sequel, and that absence is glaringly clear. I will probably continue playing this game. But, until and unless the developers sit down and ask themselves how to better communicate their systems, you shouldn't.6 found this helpful
A substantial improvement to the preceding game in every way, even in Early Access. Some mechanics just need some finer tuning. Specifically, the food system is horrible and needs major simplifying. Weight - It's ridiculously difficult to put on weight under the current system unless you're completely sessile and spend all your time not just eating, but being an absolute glutton on your stockpiled food. It feels like your character has the metabolism of a jet engine. I've been playing Hunter and eating a diet of mostly meat-2 nettle dishes in effort to stabilize my weight for almost 3 seasons and I've barely gone from 34% to 44% or so, and am near immediately back to underweight as soon as I leave base and stop eating meat dishes for more than a day. Stew - Eternal stews are a staple of historical living and can be emulated ingame, but are horrible mechanically for anything that isn't satisfying Hunger, which is the least important part of eating. For one. they're effectively impossible to flavor due to flavor being calculated in ratios of other flavors and Stews constantly losing flavor as they exist, ultimately resulting in meh-tasting food and a constant, major Wellbeing defic…2 found this helpful
I really like this game, a lot of improvements in comparison to tropical island, quite deeper, and it's still EA with more to come. Yet it may not be for everyone: as I said before much more to do, craft and build but it comes also with more grind. I would advice trying the demo of tropical island first to see if the game check your taste.
It is well worth the price, it has a ton of content to discover and a ton of easter eggs/secrets as well. It's beautiful visual, as well as audio. The card mechanics I love in general and the game offers plenty pleasant surprises on how deep the card mechanics can go when implementing such a game. By the time of writing this, the game is in an amazing state with more regular exciting updates coming. Even if the game would be abbandoned now, it would still be an amazing game. Add to the the possibility of DLCs and community content and you can get lost it in easily. I wholehartedly recommend it to whoever enjoys turn-based gameplay, base and resource management and exploration games. I don't see how someone looking for this kind of game can be disappointed, really. If you like card games as well, that's the cherry on top. Really good product, probably my top 5 if not top 3 most satisfied of.
No "AI" images used this time so W, also the game is great, gettin constant updates but fishing SUKS
great just like the first game. Perfect on steam deck. Devs are very active and are constantly updating the game making it better. Also its very challenging to master. keep going devs, dont stop!!
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