10 Games Like Cards Against Humanity You Can Play Online for Free (2026)
Cards Against Humanity is a physical card game. The official version lives on a table, not in a browser. These 10 let you play something like it online, and they differ a lot.
Quick comparison
| Game | Browser | Free | Players | AI players | Languages | Custom decks | Guest |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Box of Cards | ✔ | ✔ | 1–10 | ✔ | EN + DE | ✔ (editor) | ✔ |
| Formality | ✔ | ✔ | 3–10 | ◐ random bots | EN + 22 (beta) | 31 built-in | ✔ |
| Xyzzy | ✔ | ✔ | 3–20 | ✘ | EN | ✔ | ✔ |
| CLRTD | ✔ | ✔ | 3–20 | ✘ | EN | ✔ | ✔ |
| Kosmi | ✔ | ✔ (extras paid) | 3–20 | ✘ | EN | ✘ | ✔ |
| Bad Cards | ✔ | ◐ ads, paid packs | 3–16 | – | EN | ✔ (limited) | – |
| Rotten Apples | ✔ | ✔ | 3–16 | ✘ | EN | ✔ (Cardcast) | ✔ |
| PlayingCards.io | ✔ | ✔ (pop-up ads) | up to 6 | ✘ | EN | manual (CAH-style table removed) | ✔ |
| CAH Lab | ✔ | ✔ | solo | — | EN | ✘ | ✔ |
| Evil Apples | app only | ◐ ads, paid decks | 3–8 | ✔ | EN | paid decks | ✘ |
Free browser games, no download
1. Box of Cards
1–10 players free English & German AI no account, no download boxof.cards
A free fill-in-the-blank party game in the browser. One sentence card with blanks per round, everyone fills them from their hand and everyone votes on the results. The cards, the sentences and the mechanic are its own.
What it does differently:
- The answer sits inside the sentence. You read the finished sentence before you play the card.
- The words adapt. Cards change their articles and word forms to fit the sentence.
- The AI plays for grammar. AI players pick answers that build a correct sentence.
- Animal avatars that react to the game.
The German cards are written in German, not translated. You can write your own decks in the editor and combine up to 3 per game. The winner screen saves finished sentences as images or short clips. Joining players are dealt into the running round instead of waiting in a lobby, and it works down to the smallest phones.
Best for: 1–2 players plus AI, German groups, playing on phones.
Play now
Free — right in your browser.
2. Cards Against Formality
3–10 players free English + 22 languages (beta) cardsagainstformality.io
A minimalist clone with 31 built-in packs of the original cards, password-protected rooms and adjustable round timers. Friends join without an account; the host signs in for free. Its bots play a random card each round, and a solo mode fills the table with them. The cards are translated into 22 more languages in beta, German included. There are no custom decks.
Best for: the familiar card set, also in other languages.
3. Pretend You're Xyzzy
3–20 players free English open source pretendyoure.xyz
Xyzzy has been around for over a decade and carries essentially every CAH expansion ever released, plus custom decks and spectator mode. The last major update was 2018. Its game page has no mobile viewport, so on a phone you get the desktop layout and have to zoom. You need at least 3 humans, so you cannot try it alone.
Best for: purists who want the complete original card set.
4. Pretend You're CLRTD
3–20 players free English xyzzy.clrtd.com
A fork of Pretend You're Xyzzy with the same card library, run on its own server and actively maintained. The fork added a mobile viewport, so it scales on a phone.
Best for: the Xyzzy card set on a maintained fork.
5. Kosmi — Offends the Galaxy
3–20 players free, ad-free, optional premium English kosmi.io
Kosmi is a virtual hangout platform and "Offends the Galaxy" is its CAH clone. The draw is built-in webcam and mic support, so the video call and the game live in one tab. It runs without ads and sells optional premium extras. The game itself has fewer options than the dedicated sites.
Best for: groups who want video chat and the game in one place.
6. Bad Cards
3–16 players free with ads, paid packs and a subscription English bad.cards
A commercial CAH-style browser game with public and private games, themed card packs and a subscription in three tiers. The base game is free and ad-supported; the higher subscription tiers remove the ads for everyone in your game and unlock premium packs and modes. It also runs as a Discord activity.
Best for: playing inside a Discord call, where it runs as a Discord activity.
7. Rotten Apples
3–16 players free English bloob.io/rottenapples
A free clone on bloob.io, a site that hosts a range of small browser games. No account, create a room, share the link. It imports custom card sets through Cardcast from Many Decks, CrCast and Pretend You're Xyzzy, runs either a single judge or democratic voting, lets you set hand size and score target, toggle NSFW off, and dump a hand you cannot work with.
Best for: bringing an existing Cardcast deck collection.
8. PlayingCards.io (Remote Insensitivity removed)
up to 6 players free with pop-up ads, subscription removes them English playingcards.io
Not a game server but a virtual tabletop. Its CAH-style parody table "Remote Insensitivity" has been removed (checked November 2026), even though many lists still recommend it. You can still build a card table yourself and move the cards by hand. Nothing is automated, you even count the points yourselves. Play is interrupted by a short pop-up ad a couple of times per hour, for everyone at once; a subscription removes it. It is the closest to sitting at a real table, if your group is fine with managing the game itself.
Best for: groups who want to move the cards themselves.
The official option
9. Cards Against Humanity Lab
solo free English lab.cardsagainsthumanity.com
The only official way to play online and it is not multiplayer. The Lab deals you white cards for a black card and you pick the funniest. This helps CAH test their cards. It is a fun way to see official cards, but it is not a game you play with friends.
Best for: browsing official cards on your own.
Apps
10. Evil Apples
3–8 players freemium iOS/Android evilapples.com
The biggest CAH-style mobile app, which describes itself as inspired by the original. Rounds run asynchronously against friends or strangers and there is a large paid deck catalog. It needs an install and an account, it shows ads, and it runs on two in-app currencies with purchases from about one to a hundred euros. It is the option that works when your group will not all sit down at the same time.
Best for: slow rounds over days on your phone.
Worth a mention: Quiplash
Quiplash (from the Jackbox Party Packs, paid) is not a CAH clone. You write your own answers instead of playing cards from a hand. It competes for the same game night though. If your group prefers writing jokes to playing them, this is the one to buy.
FAQ
Can I play Cards Against Humanity online for free?
Not the official game. CAH only offers the solo "Lab". Its card text is licensed under Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA), so free versions that use those cards are legal, and there are several: Cards Against Formality, Pretend You're Xyzzy and Bad Cards. Box of Cards is a separate free game with its own cards that plays in a similar way.
Which games like Cards Against Humanity work without an account or download?
Box of Cards, Cards Against Formality, Pretend You're Xyzzy/CLRTD and Rotten Apples run in the browser with no signup for joining players. Evil Apples needs an app install and an account.
Can I play Cards Against Humanity style games with only 2 players, or alone?
Most of these games need at least 3 humans because someone has to judge. Box of Cards fills the table with AI players that pick fitting answers, so 1 or 2 people can play a full game. Cards Against Formality has bots that play a random card. Evil Apples matches you with strangers asynchronously.
Is there a German version of Cards Against Humanity online?
Box of Cards has a complete German card library and interface, written in German. Cards Against Formality offers the original cards in a German translation (beta). The other browser games on this list are in English.
Why are there so many unofficial versions of Cards Against Humanity? Is that legal?
Cards Against Humanity releases its card text under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license, which allows non-commercial reuse. That is why so many unofficial versions exist. A game that writes its own cards does not need the license at all.