Card Idle Remastered is a WPF remake of Idle Master, developed by jshackles (https://github.com/jshackles/idle_master).
Card Idle Remastered has an official Steam account: CardIdleRemastered. Invite to friends!
Application offers rich UI and flexible idle management and was designed to browse all games with card drops and to idle one selected game as simple as possible (in a single click).
It helps to get remaining card drops in games you own without wasting disk space and CPU and RAM resources.
Application also has badges preview feature. Badges art is collected by community and available on SteamCardExchange site.
Steam account with non-F2P games with cards
Minimal understanding of Steam cards, game badges and card drops Steam FAQ
OS Windows 10 or 11
.NET 8
Microsoft Edge installed and updated
Stable Internet connection
You should be logged into your Steam account via Steam client to start idling.
Downloading updates when there is a notification about new release is likely a good idea.
Card Idle works in a Single, Multi (Automatic) or Time Idle mode.
Open Time Idle tab
Click on Plus to add a new game to list
In the selection dialog enter game ID or store page url
Confirm selection
Click Start button under game image
Time Idle mode doesn't require login
Card Idle saves games list before quit
Open Badges tab
Decide which game to idle and find it in the list using a grid scroll or a quick-search field
Click Start button
Wait until all cards drop and idle process stops
Open Badges Tab
Decide which games to idle and add them to the idle queue by clicking Enqueue button
Enqueue Selected button under the grid will add all games to the queue
Open Queue Tab
Change idle priority if necessary
Click Dequeue button to remove a game from the queue if necessary
Select Idle mode. Default mode is "One by One" which means that Card Idle runs one game idle process at a time and starts the next game only when all cards received.
Two "Trial" modes ("Trial First" and "Trial Last") were introduces for games which have 2 hour delay before cards begin to drop. Card Idle will run such "trial" games together, stop those what reached 2 hour and pick next from the queue. Default number of processes is 16, max number is 255. When there is no more trial games Card Idle switches to "One by One" mode.
Due to changes in Steam card drop system it became possible to get 1 card drop with a simple method: 1. launch a game from library 2. wait some time 3. quit the game. "Periodic Switch" mode automates the process. Card Idle starts the 1st game from the queue, waits for a short interval, stops the game, waits a bit for Steam to react (and possibly drop a card), starts the 2nd game from the queue, waits, stops it, etc, repeat for all games in the queue.
If "All" mode is selected, Card Idle will start all games from the idle queue.
Launch automatic idle: click [Start] button
Click [Stop] button to interrupt automatic idle if necessary
Card Idle stops all idle processes on quit or logout.
Card Idle saves idle queue before quit and clears it on logout
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation. A copy of the GNU General Public License can be found at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/. For your convenience, a copy of this license is included.
