Card Survival: Tropical Island News

Hello everyone!
Card Survival: Fantasy Forest is finally here.
We want to give a very big thanks to all our returning players from Tropical Island, and to all the new ones that are willing to give Fantasy Forest a try!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2868860/Card_Survival_Fantasy_Forest/

As you know, this is an Early Access title, and is going to be so for some time. Probably 2 years or more. This game is much bigger and complex than Tropical Island so it's going to take more time.

As was the case with our previous game, we hope you will enjoy the process and help us shape its content and experiences!
Any feedback you have on things you like or not like is welcome, as well as any suggestions for the content you'd like to see next!



We will be releasing regular updates with new content as often as we can, as well as 3 major updates introducing 3 new large areas to the forest (mountains, swamp and forest expanse) and new important content (like Metallurgy and the NPCs).

We hope Fantasy Forest can turn into a super deep and complete survival/life simulation.
Let's make it the best possible survival experience together!

Hello everyone!

We wanted to let you all know that Card: Survival: Fantasy Forest will be finally releasing on the 28th of February.



On-release content includes:

Central Forest Area:
A forest to explore and get lost in, divided into 27 sublocations. It includes a river, a cave complex and multiple places of interest, with different plants and animals to find depending on the area.

Fauna:
Animal agents that roam the forest and can be tracked and chased around the different areas, including Squirrels, Partridges, Badgers, Foxes, Deer, Boars and Wolves. Partridges and Boars can also be domesticated and bred.

Flora:
A selection of 14 different plants with different uses for crafting, cooking and medicine . Most plants can also be grown in gardens and some also in large crop fields.

Weather System:
With four differentiated seasons and weather effects like rain, snow, blizzards and floods. Low temperatures can freeze water, cause snowfall and frostbite wounds.

Magic System:
With 10 different spirits to interact with. Each with their own blessings, enchantments and spells to help you with farming, hunting, combat and survival in general.

And more:
Character creation with multiple perks, quest system to offer some guidance and unlock blueprints, improved cooking system featuring flavour combinations, improved body simulation which includes fitness, nutrient levels and an excretory system, improved construction system for making more complex houses with interconnected rooms and multiple floors and exits, a quality system, and lots of skills like knapping, weaving, leatherworking, woodworking, music and more.

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Once the game is released on the 28th we will be uploading frequent patches with fixes and minor content additions while we focus on performance improvements.
The path to final release will be long and we have 3 major updates planned which will be introducing 3 new large areas to the forest, agent/npc companions and a lot more content.

That should be all for now, our next announcement will be on the 28th!
See you all for the release!

Hello everyone!

We wanted to let you all know that Card: Survival: Fantasy Forest will be finally releasing on the 28th of February.



On-release content includes:

Central Forest Area:
A forest to explore and get lost in, divided into 27 sublocations. It includes a river, a cave complex and multiple places of interest, with different plants and animals to find depending on the area.

Fauna:
Animal agents that roam the forest and can be tracked and chased around the different areas, including Squirrels, Partridges, Badgers, Foxes, Deer, Boars and Wolves. Partridges and Boars can also be domesticated and bred.

Flora:
A selection of 14 different plants with different uses for crafting, cooking and medicine . Most plants can also be grown in gardens and some also in large crop fields.

Weather System:
With four differentiated seasons and weather effects like rain, snow, blizzards and floods. Low temperatures can freeze water, cause snowfall and frostbite wounds.

Magic System:
With 10 different spirits to interact with. Each with their own blessings, enchantments and spells to help you with farming, hunting, combat and survival in general.

And more:
Character creation with multiple perks, quest system to offer some guidance and unlock blueprints, improved cooking system featuring flavour combinations, improved body simulation which includes fitness, nutrient levels and an excretory system, improved construction system for making more complex houses with interconnected rooms and multiple floors and exits, a quality system, and lots of skills like knapping, weaving, leatherworking, woodworking, music and more.

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Once the game is released on the 28th we will be uploading frequent patches with fixes and minor content additions while we focus on performance improvements.
The path to final release will be long and we have 3 major updates planned which will be introducing 3 new large areas to the forest, agent/npc companions and a lot more content.

That should be all for now, our next announcement will be on the 28th!
See you all for the release!

Hi everyone!
I hope you all had a good start of the year!

We wanted to say hi and update you on how we're doing.
As some of you know, we started a small closed beta in December and over the past few weeks we've been gathering feedback, fixing bugs and continuing to add features. We're happy with the reception the game has gotten so far and are really looking forward to releasing it!

The main things stopping us from releasing at the moment are:

• Missing Art (yes, I'm still not done... there's just too many cards...)
  
• Some visual improvements to how the game looks (some people have complained about the visuals being too dark, saturated and overwhelming).
  
• A few annoying bugs we wouldn't feel comfortable releasing the game with.
  
• Some balancing issues regarding farming and fishing.
  

Once these issues have been solved we'll be releasing the game at the earliest possible opportunity. We're hoping this can be done in February.

Thank you all very much for your patience!
We really hope you'll enjoy Card Survival: Fantasy Forest, once it's finally out!

Hello everyone!
I hope you're all well.

Delays...

We wanted to tell you that unfortunately, we won't be able to release Fantasy Forest at the end of November like we wanted.

We have been working hard for a long time now and we really tried to make it for this date, but here we are... I should admittedly have been more conservative with my time estimations. We make games in an iterative way that is hard to plan and organize things around, and, as it's often said, the last 10% usually takes as long as the rest...
We hope you're not too disappointed by this, we're very close to being ready... just not there yet.

The content is basically there, and things are relatively well balanced (at least for an early access title that's going to be receiving lots of updates) but I'm still quite behind on art, and there are some polishing issues we wanted to have ready for release that have been taking longer than expected.

What to expect.

We're definitely not going to be releasing in November and we don't really want to give another date again, for fear of not making it. What we can tell you is that we are close. It might happen in December, it might happen in January. But it's not far.
We are also thinking of starting a small closed beta soon. Probably in December. So some of you on Discord/Steam might receive some DMs in the near future.

That's all we had to say, See you all soon, hopefully for the release.
Now we'll get back to work!