Animation Throwdown: The Quest for Cards

Card Game· Strategy· Trading Card Game· Card Battler

Released May 2017

Family Guy, Bob's Burgers, Futurama, American Dad, King of the Hill, and Archer join forces in Animation Throwdown, your favorite new collectible card game. Collect your favorite characters, combine cards to make hilarious combos, and battle your way through an adventure of animated proportions.

73% positive · 4,202 reviews

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Released, ongoing live service game

High confidence

Live Service

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Released, ongoing live service game

High confidence

Live Service

Where to get it

Free on Steam

Steam Free

Evaluation

Animation Throwdown: The Quest for Cards is a free-to-play collectible card game featuring characters from Family Guy, Bob's Burgers, Futurama, American Dad, King of the Hill, and Archer. The game is structured as a live service: it features a multiplayer Arena with ongoing player-vs-player competition, rotating events (such as the Showdown Challenge and Grillin' Swole Club), a VIP Pass with progression tiers, and hero token systems — all hallmarks of a game designed to receive indefinite ongoing content rather than a defined, completable content slate. The developer has continued to ship updates over the years, with feature patches improving quality-of-life systems (such as Multi Autobattle and the revamped Events tab in May 2022) and a bug fix as recently as March 7, 2024. While update frequency has slowed significantly since the game's peak activity around 2018–2019, the game remains purchasable and the live service infrastructure (events, Arena, seasonal content) is still in place. The store page was also updated as recently as February 2025 (based on asset timestamps), suggesting the game is still being maintained.

Evidence

Game is free-to-play and features a multiplayer Arena, hero token progression, and rotating events — structural indicators of an indefinitely-supported live service game.

store metadata · May 5, 2017 source development ongoing

high

Bug fix patch released, confirming the developer was still actively maintaining the game as of March 7, 2024.

news post · Mar 7, 2024 source development ongoing

medium

Content

1 of 1 released · no outstanding content

Released

Animation Throwdown - Incredible Bundle

Jun 2017

Media

Details

Developer

Synapse Games

Publisher

Kongregate

Achievements

Platform

Windows

Controller

—

Steam Deck

Playable

Players

Single-player · Multiplayer · PvP

Trading Card Game Card Battler Card Game Strategy 2D Funny Dark Humor Lore-Rich Choices Matter Deckbuilding Casual Anime Comedy Adventure Cartoon

About this game

Family Guy! Bob's Burgers! Futurama! American Dad! King of the Hill! Archer! It’s ANIMATION THROWDOWN!

For the first time ever, five of your favorite animated shows are together in one amazing collectable card game.

Featuring hundreds of your favorite characters and moments from your favorite episodes from all the seasons of Family Guy, Bob's Burgers, Futurama, American Dad, King of the Hill, and Archer. Collect character cards, optimize your deck, and create new combos as you fight in an epic card battle bacchanal.

The game may be digital, but the stakes are real!* The fate of the world rests in your hands!**

(*Stakes are not real.)

(**The fate of the world does not rest in your hands.)

30 Chapters of Adventuring featuring moments and locations from your favorite episodes. Hilarious bosses, big rewards, and lots of challenge. What does Futurama's Space Bee say when you play a strong card? How does American Dad's 70s Hot Tub react to winning a battle? Adventure away to find out.

Hundreds of cards and combos featuring characters from each show. What happens when you combine Fry and Money? We think you know. But how about making a Beefsquatch, a $300 Knife, or Pro Bass Hank? Collect cards and put them together to find out.

Challenge other players from all over the globe in the multiplayer Arena. Earn Hero tokens to level up your favorite characters: from Bender to Consuela, from Bobby to Zapp Brannigan.

Partake in limited time events with awesome rewards. Battle against other players, unique bosses, and other crazy combinations of events to earn exclusive rewards,

new cards, and lots of loot!

Join a guild, make some friends, and get ready to Rumble! Chat with your friends, discuss strategy, battle each other for bragging rights, and gain great bonuses from joining a Guild and playing the game. When Guild events are live, play together to prove you're literally the best in the world.