Last updated on January 4th, 2026 at 06:52 am
CardSurvival: Tropical Island – Simulation Game Review
CardSurvival: Tropical Island is a Simulation/Card game from WinterSpring Games Limited, first launched in 19th January 2023.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 52+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes CardSurvival: Tropical Island Stand Out
Card Survival: Tropical Island is a card-based survival experience from the creators of Card Quest.
Experience what life would be like if you were stranded on a desert island, all in a card format.
Explore, craft tools and manage your needs in order to survive in this hostile environment.
Key Features:
- Simple but deep system: all interactions are done by using cards or combining them together.
- Tons of Content: Go from a starving castaway in rags to a prosperous island farmer.
- Realistic Simulation: Tracking everything from body weight to calluses on hands and feet and even your stool consistency.
- Character Creation: Choose a premade character or create you own by choosing perks determining your physical and mental traits, skills and starting conditions.
Explore a Desert Island:
- Explore a large island with more than 16 different environments, including beaches, jungles, grasslands, mangroves and even cave systems.
- Learn to coexist with the many different animals of the islands, be they predator and prey and even learn to domesticate and breed them.
- Learn of the different culinary and medicinal uses of the diverse flora of the island and discover the secrets of how to grow it.
Keep yourself busy with lots of activities:
- Work wood, stone, copper, fiber, leather and clay to craft yourself lots of different tools, weapons, clothes and containers.
- Build yourself a home and other structures out of wood and mud, including animal enclosures, crop plots and water reservoirs.
- Roast, smoke, dry and salt different meats, make your own bread, oil, cheese, sugar, alcohol and cook lots of different recipes.
Complex health system
- Suffer from foot and hand sores, back pain, sunburns and even bug bites. Craft protective clothing and use multiple medicinal plants to treat these ailments.
- Sprains, fractures, abrasions, bleeding lacerations and animal bites are some of the many ways in which you can get hurt. Wash and treat your wounds to stave off infection and promote healing.
- Get fever, diarrhoea, nausea, headaches and rashes from the bacteria and parasites you can catch on the island. Feed yourself well and keep your morale high to help strengthen your immune system.
- Experience a complex psychological system that features boredom, isolation, anxiety, depression and spiritual or psychotic experiences. Make imaginary or animal friends, entertain yourself with fun and creative activities and achieve interesting mental states.
Join the community and give us feedback at:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1694420/discussions/
https://discord.gg/dURZTmeEaN
This Simulation game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, CardSurvival: Tropical Island is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 31st August 2024
Recent improvements include:
Added French Localisation
Download & Availability
CardSurvival: Tropical Island is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get CardSurvival: Tropical Island on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Very very good game but can you add creative mode pls.
This may be our favorite game ever outside the Zelda franchise. It looks simple, but is incredibly complex, and theres always something new to discover. Im only on day 76, but we think Im set up to survive the rest of the dry season Well see if we can keep the macaque friend fed and watered through it too. (See what we mean with the complexity? Sure Ive only just scratched the surface, too.) It may seem expensive for a mobile game, but Ive also never found a mobile game that goes this deep, so pretend youre paying for a PC game. You essentially are, we think its a full port.
Can't the game upload custom avatar photos.
This game is the crme de la creme of indie mobile gaming. Dont let the price tag deter you, or maybe do let it and leave it to those of us less aversive to risk. We have owned it for 2 days and it has to be in our top all time games on any platform. The no frills minimalism provides a level of simplicity that is the perfect match for how deeply complex the game actually is. We feel like we will be playing this for years to come.
Just check out YouTubes on it. Nuff said. Appeals to us as well as our 7 year old grandson which is a first! No Gems, firework displays, game services, in-app purchases, and huge-eyed cartoon characters constantly saying yay to paper over a substandard arcade like product. Solid problem solver with extensive feedback to help guide the way. Wish more games were like this. Well worth price.
We already own this on steam and have about 100 hours there. This game is awesome! If youre a fan of survival games, you wont be disappointed. If you have a pc, you can even try it on steam with their generous no questions asked return policy (play under 2 hours, under 14 days).
Bought this on Steam first but we wanted to play in bed too so we bought the mobile version. Its pretty much the exact same and we LOVE it!! Survival, resource management, rougelike. Very quality mobile game. But please have mercy and consider this. Give us the are you sure option when dismantling the Rustic Bed. Ive accidentally dismantled it 3 time trying to go to bed and we dont get everything back to remake it easily.
We played this game on steam and we can do things at night if we have the fire on. However, it doesnt work on this mobile version .is it a bug.
We play this game on our computer on Steam. We have approximately 200 hours already, and it is absolutely one of our favorite games we have ever played. The survival aspects of the game are everything we've ever been looking for in a survival game. Incredibly in-depth. There's a bit of a learning curve, so be prepared to die a few times, but it's so rewarding to start to survive for longer and longer. The ios version seems to be an EXACT port from the computer version, which is really awesome. We mean even down to the exit button on the menu screen that kicks you out of the app. That's why it's $16. The only way we could see the app being better is if they find a way for us to sync our steam save files with ios and let us pass them off from device to device. Ps the game has a fairly avid chinese market! So don't think the other reviews are invalid because they're from Chinese accounts or there's broken English.
We are from China, playing this game for a long time on PC and PE. This is such a great game that contains a lot of things. But the price is very expensive, which we paid for 15.99 dollars, otherwise in Chinese over 120 yuan. Im just hoping next excellent work, but also an appropriate price.
Doesnt allow us to reset the day even though Im in safe mode using iPad Pro help.
The tide sound seem to be loud and keep strong after our iPhone open this game, but our iPad going fine. Maybe there is a bug going with iPhone version? And by the way, please make it work more fluently when we live longer at island. Now it just stops for seconds when we get out of our mud hut. Thanks the game is outstanding undoubtedly.
We think the UI could use a little bit of work but other than that its fun.
Day one – we got hungry so we ate coconut meat. But this made us have diarrhea and actually made us more dehydrated. Day two – found out how to make fire! And fish! Ate some real food! Day three – we got cocky and forgot to store water. Died of dehydration. This game is deep and provides a lot of gameplay. Check out reviews on Steam, some people have logged hundreds of hours.
Have been playing it for a while on PC and picked it up immediately when it is out on iOS so we can play it anytime anywhere. It is absolutely worth the price as we are already 100+ hrs in and there are still so much content we havent explored. Wish more ppl discover this gem.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.05.29
- Size: 341.94 MB
- iOS: 10.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References, Infrequent/Mild Medical/Treatment Information, Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes
- Developer: [WinterSpring Games Limited]()
Last updated: 31st August 2024 | Genre: Simulation, Card | Developer: WinterSpring Games Limited