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CardLife: Creative Survival
Hand draw any weapon, tool, building piece and your own character in this innovative science-fantasy creative survival game. Mine for resources, construct unique buildings and battle fantastical beasts with friends or play alone. Explore a world made entirely out of cardboard!
View on Steam ↗ Free (US · as of 2026-07-26)What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“If u bought this game before it shut down. Well i've got some news... u can STILL play it just by going to the commands and typing un --offline and it works. If u don't do that it just says user verifiction failed beacuse the servers shut down... Game is far from finished sadly…”
— a player, Steam review · 90 hrs played“I never did get to play it with a friend so just played alone but it was good while it lasted”
— a player, Steam review · 8 hrs played“I really wish that the developers allowed a way to play this game offline instead of just shutting it down entirely and leaving it dead. Bumhole move imo.”
— a player, Steam review · 14 hrs playedPrice tracking
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Latest official news
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Freejam Studio Closure
Hi everyone, As many of you will have heard by now, Freejam has ceased production on Robocraft 2 and the studio is closing down. Robocraft 1 and Cardlife are currently being delisted from the Steam st
Server Maintenance 22/05/2023
The official CardLife game servers will be briefly taken offline at 14:00 UTC for maintenance. This is expected to last up to 1 hour.
Update on Server Issues
UPDATE: Login issues should now be resolved and existing official servers are running again. Cardlife is currently experiencing some server issues which are preventing login. We're working to resolve
CardLife 50% Off During Steam Survival Fest
CardLife Is now on sale at 50% off as part of Steam's Survival Fest! Adventure across a cardboard world and literally draw your own weapons, items and houses with the connect-the-dots crafting system!
Week-long Sale: 50% Off Cardlife
Cardlife will be 50% off between the 21st September and 28th September.
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| Genres | Action, Adventure, Indie, Massively Multiplayer, RPG |
| Player tags | Sandbox · PvE · PvP · Action-Adventure · RPG · Dinosaurs · Base-Building · Open World · Action · Colorful · Fantasy · Building (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · MMO · PvP · Online PvP · Co-op · Online Co-op · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese |
| Estimated owners | 50,000 – 100,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | http://cardlifegame.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 7, 64 bit or above Processor: Intel(R) Core (TM) i5 processor or AMD equivalent Memory: 6 GB RAM Graphics: Nvidia GeForce 660 GTX or equivalent Network: Broadband Internet connection Storage: 6 GB available space Additional Notes: Online connection required to play