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Introduction

TCG Card Shop Simulator spent roughly two years in Early Access before the 1.0 release on September 15, 2026, and the version history matters because a large share of the guides written during Early Access describe numbers that have since changed. The headline shift is scale: the collectible pool grew from 2,714 cards to 4,436, with the Ascension pack line carrying 1,452 of the additions, and the in-game card game became something you actually play with deck building, a rulebook, short matches against customers and tournament play. This hub tracks what shipped at launch across Steam, Xbox, PlayStation and Nintendo Switch, what arrived in the 0.70 and 0.70.3 builds before it, how saves carry forward between versions, and what the developer has said about support after 1.0 rather than treating the release as the end of the road.

Version History At A Glance

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Core Mechanics

The version history is short but consequential. The Early Access build that most existing guides were written against shipped a smaller card pool and a card game that was mostly thematic rather than playable. The 0.70 line is the version most community documentation still describes, and the 0.70.3 patch followed it with fixes rather than new systems. The 1.0 release on September 15, 2026 is the version that matters going forward: it took the game out of Early Access across Steam, Xbox, PlayStation and Nintendo Switch at once, expanded the collectible pool from 2,714 cards to 4,436, added the Ascension pack line carrying 1,452 of those cards, and turned the in-game card game into a playable system with deck building, a rulebook, short matches against customers and tournaments. Saves from the 0.70 line carry forward into 1.0, but there is no cross-save between console and Steam. The developer has described 1.0 as a milestone rather than the end of support, so numbers in older guides should always be checked against the current build.

Advantages

Keeping track of versions protects you from acting on stale information, which is a real risk in a game whose Early Access period lasted about two years and whose community documentation is still largely written against an older build. Knowing that the card pool grew from 2,714 to 4,436 and that the newest pack line carries 1,452 of those cards tells you where recent collector attention sits, and knowing that the playable card game, deck building and tournaments all arrived at 1.0 tells you which guides to trust and which to treat as historical. Save compatibility is documented too, so returning players know their 0.70 save carries forward while cross-platform progression does not. Because the developer has already framed 1.0 as a milestone rather than the end of support, the useful posture is to treat every number as version-scoped: cite the build, note the date, and expect tuning changes to move the figures that matter most, such as worker costs and pack distributions.

Challenges

The central risk in this category is stale documentation. Roughly two years of Early Access produced a large body of community content written against builds whose card pool, economy and card game have all since changed, and much of that content is still the top result for common searches. The 1.0 release is recent enough that authoritative detail on its new systems is scarce: the 1,452-card Ascension figure comes from the official update announcement, but the pack-by-pack breakdown behind it has not been published, and the playable card game, tournaments and deck building have almost no community documentation at all. Version numbering itself is a minor trap, since the last Early Access build and the release build differ enough that a guide describing the earlier one can be confidently wrong. And because the developer has said support continues after 1.0, every figure in this hub carries an implicit expiry: treat numbers as scoped to the build that produced them rather than to the game as a whole.

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