Free Cardware

Editorial Meh

Free Cardware is an ambitious NSFW deckbuilder inspired by Slay the Spire that offered a genuinely novel lust-based mechanic—multiple viable playstyles around different sexual outcomes—and earned real affection from early players for its creative core. The game is, however, severely underdeveloped and effectively abandoned. The developer's Patreon vanished, updates stalled after v0.1.3/0.1.4, and the project shows all the hallmarks of a creator who lost momentum or support mid-alpha: only three acts, reused enemy sprites with no unique interactions, minimal sex scenes despite AI art's ease of production, and chronic balance problems (some playstyles trivial, others unwinnable). Recent builds crash after events on some systems. Community consensus is clear—this had something special, but the execution was lazy relative to the concept, and the dev's failure to deliver substantial content despite patreon funding left backers frustrated. Several spiritual successors are now in active development.