CardLife
CardLife was Freejam's cardboard-world survival sandbox, playable solo or with others, built around a Connect-the-Dots system for drawing your own tools, weapons and buildings. Freejam closed as a studio in January 2025 and sunset CardLife alongside both Robocraft games; it can no longer be played.
Platform availability
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- Status
- Historical
- Business model
- Premium (Early Access purchase)
- Genre
- Online survival sandbox
- Release
- 2018
- Platforms
- Windows
- Developer
- Freejam
- Publisher
- Freejam
- Profile
- Full
MMO DNA
A visual fingerprint built from MMOFinder’s current verified catalog fields—not a review score.
PvE-only survival combat; no PvP was ever added
Playable solo or with others, with no forced grouping
A fully editable, hand-crafted cardboard world built around drawing your own creations
Real-time third-person action combat
Why you might like it
- Its Connect-the-Dots crafting system let players literally draw the shapes of cardboard tools, weapons and buildings rather than picking from a fixed crafting list.
- The whole game — mining, building and fighting fantastical creatures — took place inside a fully editable, hand-crafted cardboard-and-paper world, a genuinely distinctive visual hook.
- It's preserved here as a record of Freejam's (the Robocraft studio's) more experimental survival-sandbox project.
Things to consider
- Development was effectively abandoned years before the studio's official closure — Freejam stopped active feature work on CardLife long before confirming the shutdown.
- Freejam formally announced it was closing as a studio in January 2025, sunsetting CardLife alongside both Robocraft games — the game can no longer be played.
- Because Freejam closed as a studio entirely, there's no path to a future update or revival — treat this strictly as a piece of survival-genre history rather than a game you can still play.
Research record
- Last checked
- 2026-09-04
- Profile depth
- Full
- Source note
- Freejam studio-closure announcement (Jan 2025) and official CardLife site/Steam listing
What MMOFinder has checked
- Gameplay featuresVerified pvp/pve/housing/crafting/trading/controller fields are on record.Verified
- Gameplay mediaTwo verified, locally hosted gameplay screenshots are available.Verified
- Source trail1 linked source is recorded for review.Verified
- Last reviewedCatalog fields reviewed Sep 4, 2026.Verified
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CardLife relationship map
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CardLife timeline
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- —Released
MMOFinder records CardLife as released in 2018.
- CurrentCatalog status
Historical
- 2026-09-04Research checked
Core catalog fields were reviewed and upgraded to a Full profile.
CardLife screenshots & gameplay
Two verified, locally hosted gameplay screenshots and a gameplay video are available.
Source: Verified YouTube gameplay video
Gameplay, availability and research notes
Within MMOFinder's catalog, CardLife is classified as a Online survival sandbox. Its recorded status is Historical, while the business model is listed as Premium (Early Access purchase). MMOFinder records its release year as 2018. Current platform data lists Windows. The profile keeps verified fields explicit so research depth is clear at a glance.
Gameplay metadata describes combat and multiplayer structure as: Third-person real-time combat against fantastical creatures, using drawn/crafted cardboard tools and weapons; no PvP system was ever added. Discovery tags on the record include MMO, Catalog. The developer field lists Freejam, and the publisher field lists Freejam. Together these catalog fields help distinguish this title from similarly named games and provide useful inputs for MMOFinder's filtering and comparison tools.
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