Grenoble, September 8, 2026
FAMONDO, the card game where you build the wildest family in the world, opens pre-orders
FAMONDO is a family card game in which each player lays out the five continents to build their own family: a parent, a child, an animal, gathered from the four corners of the world. It comes in two forms that answer each other — a box of 65 illustrated cards, printed in France, and a free mobile app that carries the game on, solo against the AI or online against the whole world. Pre-orders for the physical edition have been open since September 1, 2026, at a launch price of 9,90 €.
A rule you explain in a minute, a game that lasts five
Each player draws a card, then lays a continent card face up in front of them. The first to line up all five continents — the Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe, Oceania — including at least one Parent, one Child and one Animal shouts “FAMONDO!” and wins the game. Fifteen Special cards keep upsetting that balance: the Broom sweeps an opponent's card into the discard pile, the Alarm Failure costs them a turn, the Umbrella protects, the Adoption rescues an incomplete family. Cards are identified by their illustration and by their continent colour, so reading is not required — a six-year-old plays on equal terms with an adult. A simplified version, without the Special cards, is there for younger players.
An app that is not a port
The FAMONDO app, free on iOS and Android, is not a trial version of the card game: it is a complete game, available in six languages. In solo play, you travel through fifty locations spread across the five continents and face AI opponents, each with a style of their own. Online, you take on real players in a weekly Sprint and a monthly Season, with live leaderboards. Every game earns collectible cards — landmarks and culinary specialities from around the world — that exist only in the app. Both forms of the game share the same rules and the same illustrations: learn one and you already know how to play the other.
Written, drawn, coded and manufactured end to end
FAMONDO is self-published. One person, Franck Petretto, wrote the rules, art-directed the fifty-four illustrations, built the mobile app and its game server, then ran the manufacturing. The illustrations were produced with generative AI tools, from detailed art direction written for each one — framing, palette, setting, attitude — then assembled and retouched; the studio would rather claim that method than hide it. The physical edition is printed and finished in France, at Printemps Europe. There was no crowdfunding campaign: the game is sold as a direct pre-order on famondo.com, at 9,90 € instead of the 14,90 € planned after launch.
About FAMONDO
FAMONDO is a multicultural family card game of 65 illustrated cards, for 2 to 6 players aged 6 and up, in 3 to 5 minutes per game. It brings together the families, children and animals of the five continents around one table. FAMONDO exists as a physical box manufactured in France and as a free mobile app on iOS and Android, available in six languages. The game is self-published by Franck Petretto. FAMONDO is a registered figurative European Union trade mark, No. 019332793. famondo.com
