I built a free online card game where you collect property sets, charge rent, and can rewrite every rule! Finally sharing it here!
Hey r/MonopolyDeal,
Honest heads-up first: this is me sharing a project I built, so it's self-promotion of a sort. I’d rather say that plainly than pretend otherwise. And a note for the mods: I sent a modmail a few days ago asking whether this is allowed and haven't heard back yet. I didn't want to assume or step on any rules, so if it's not okay, please remove it and no hard feelings at all.
To be clear up front: this is an independent fan project. It isn't affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Hasbro or Monopoly in any way, just something I built because I love this style of card game.
It's called Cardopoly, and it's a free browser game. If you enjoy the kind of card game this sub is about, you'll feel at home right away: you collect colored property sets, bank money, charge rent, and use action cards to steal, swap, and block; first to finish three full sets wins (though you can change that number).
A few things it does:
- Play it however you can find people. Private rooms with a code for friends, a quick-match queue for random opponents, or a solo mode against bots (1–3 of them, easy/medium/hard) when no one's around.
- You can rewrite the rules. This is the part I think this community will care about most, since house rules come up here all the time. Set how many sets it takes to win (2–5), the starting hand size, hand limit, draws and actions per turn, and the bonus, or just pick a Quick / Standard / Marathon preset. There are also toggles for the things people always argue about: allow stealing from completed sets, or turn off the "block" card or the big set-stealing card entirely.
- Re-skin the board. There are 22 cosmetic themes that swap the properties for famous places from 20 countries, plus a classic set and a global mix.
- The usual extras, if you want them. Accounts, stats, seasonal leaderboards, friends with online status, achievements, and a short tutorial if you're new. Works on phone, tablet, and desktop, and it's completely free with no ads.
I built it mostly because I wanted an easy way to play online with friends and tinker with the rules, and couldn't quite find that anywhere. Not trying to sell anything; it's free, no ads.
If you'd like to try it, it's at https://cardopoly.io; happy to answer questions in the comments, and thanks to the mods and to this community either way.