Card Survival: Fantasy Forest

Card Survival: Fantasy Forest

Early access since Feb 2025

Card Survival: Fantasy Forest is a card-based deep survival simulator and the next installment in the Card Survival Series. Carve yourself a home in a primordial forest that has a will of its own. A day-to-day life simulator in a world where nature reigns with mystery, beauty and sometimes cruelty.

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Evaluation

Card Survival: Fantasy Forest has been in Early Access since February 28, 2025 and remains actively in development. The update pace has been extraordinary for a two-person team — the game has logged 8 major content releases across roughly 17 months, alongside 11 feature patches and 25 bug fix updates. The most recent major update, the NPC Update, shipped on August 6, 2026 and introduced a full human companion system with a relationship engine, duty system, dialog, and character creator. The developer described it as "the biggest update so far" and immediately flagged that hotfixes, balancing, and additional NPC features are still being worked on. In May 2026, the developer published a detailed roadmap covering content planned for the remainder of 2026 and the first half of 2027. This includes: a Construction block (stilt houses, stone buildings, mills, rafts/boats), a Magic block (familiars, wards, new spirits, ghosts), a Life block (beekeeping, advanced alchemy, NPC family features), an Animals block (donkeys, dogs, sheep), and a Mountain biome expansion with new metals and climbing mechanics. Three additional pre-made characters — the Witch, the Tourist, and the Beast — are also explicitly confirmed as upcoming. In April 2026, the developer stated the game probably has "around 2 more years" before it can leave Early Access, signaling a 1.0 release is not expected until approximately 2027–2028. Development is clearly healthy and ongoing with no signs of slowdown.
Evidence
NPC Update released — the developer's self-described biggest update so far, introducing a full human companion system with relationship mechanics, a duty system, and a character creator. Developer notes ongoing hotfixes, balancing, and missing features still to be added.
news post · Aug 6, 2026 source content shipped
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Swamp and Iron Update released, adding 19 new areas, the swamp biome, beavers, leeches, bog iron, bloomeries, and iron tools. One of eight major content releases since Early Access launch.
news post · May 28, 2026 source content shipped
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Details

Publisher
WinterSpring Games
Achievements
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Platform
Windows, macOS
Controller
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Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player

About this game

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.

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.

Last evaluated Aug 19, 2026
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