I built a llama card game

I wanted a card game I could open in a browser tab, play for ten minutes, and come back to later. Most collectible card games ask for a download, a store account, or a budget. I wanted the opposite: one click, no install, no shop that sells power.

Llamas became the theme because they are funny without trying. A llama in a detective coat or a llama with a laser sword works as a card. That gave me room for parody, pop culture references, and a collection that does not take itself too seriously.

Llama Legends is a browser card collector with an idle economy and a turn based PvE combat layer. You open booster packs, collect more than 600 cards, build a team of five, train the cards, and take them into the Arena, the Challenge Towers, and community raids.

The game has six public rarity tiers, ten themed booster packs, ten permanent towers, four seasonal event towers, four training modes, 23 achievement categories, and full English and German localisation. The whole thing runs on Cloudflare Pages with Firebase for accounts and cloud saves.

A normal session is short. Claim the daily gift, finish the daily missions, start expeditions and patrols, then spend the coins on a pack or a work upgrade. If you have more time, run an Arena attempt or join a raid.

The idle layer keeps working while you are away. Work llamas earn coins, expeditions return XP, and patrols bring resources. The game calculates the offline earnings when you come back, so a break does not erase progress.

There are no ads inside the game, no purchases, and no pay to win. Every card, pack, tower, and cosmetic can be earned through play. The game is funded by the portals where it is listed, not by selling power to players.

That model has a cost: the game grows at the speed of one person. I choose the updates I can finish, and I ship them when they are ready. The alternative, a shop with card bundles, would make the collection meaningless to me.

I use AI art. I know it is a controversial topic, and I would rather be direct about it than hide it. As a solo developer with no budget, I could not create a game with more than 600 unique cards and keep it free any other way.

The art is generated, selected, and edited to fit the card frame, the rarity, and the joke. The design work, the card text, the game code, and the balance are mine. If you do not want to support AI art, that is a fair position, and I would rather you know before you play.

Most card collectors ask for a download, a store account, or a budget. Llama Legends runs in a browser tab and every card is earned through play. The table below is a quick comparison with games that players often mention in the same breath.

I released Llama Legends on 15 December 2025. The first version had the pack loop, the Arena, and the album. Since then the game has added the Challenge Towers, the Forge, variant mastery, the Hall of Fame, and seasonal events.

In August 2026 the game passed 100,000 total plays. The current version is 3.9.6. The changelog has the full release history, including the small fixes that do not fit in a milestone.

The official version is at llamalegends.com. The game is also listed on CrazyGames, itch.io, GameJolt, Miniplay, IndieDB, ModDB, IGDB, and IncrementalDB, and it was featured on Product Hunt. The portal versions are the same game; the official site is the version I update first.

• llamalegends.com: the official version, English and German.
• CrazyGames: the portal version with the player rating.
• itch.io and GameJolt: the indie game listings.
• Miniplay, IndieDB, ModDB, IGDB, and IncrementalDB: game database and portal listings.

My name is Sven von Bandel. I live in Braunschweig, Germany, and I develop Llama Legends alone under the name LamaZ Game Studio. I write the code, design the systems, write the card text, and handle the updates. The community on Discord helps with bug reports, balance feedback, and the occasional llama pun.

If you want to follow the development, the Discord server is the fastest channel. I post patch notes, event news, and promo codes there first.

The player rating comes from the CrazyGames listing. The release date and the version come from the game itself. The card and pack counts come from the game data that builds this site. This page is updated with the game version; the date below is the last content review, not the last build.