Stacklands

What a charming little game! It begins as a very relaxing experience, perfect for winding down before bed, but before you know, it turns into a resource management challenge that’s impossible to put down.
One minor complaint... I wanted to 100% the game, but it seems like I need to buy the DLC in order to get last achievement unlocked. That's STUPID.

If you're looking for a game to play every now and again, I would highly recommend this game. While it's not something you can play every day for hours on end for weeks or months at a time, it is rewarding for the time you do spend within the game.

For my playstyle, I usually turn off my brain and bumble along, trying to figure out the answer or the solution to a problem I am facing. Which card do I need, do I remember what the components are to make that card, how can I make things more efficient and what am I ultimately trying to achieve? I become so absorbed with the game that I lose track of time.

I know once I am done with what I am trying to achieve, I probably won't look at Stacklands for a couple of months - but I know when I go back I can try to improve from my past experiences, or I can just reset my cards and have to unlock and relearn everything once again.

I don't even know what I'm doing, there's so much going on. I just wanted to build some town with cards. I sort my board then an enemy spawns and shuffles everything on my board. The chickens fuck up every stack imaginable. I have 47 apples and idk what to do with them. I have 4 chests full of gold and no clue what to do with it. Half my board is full. Then I accidentally summoned a demon and fought him off with a ton of naked villagers.

This game is not peak, but boy is it fire. Just PLEASE AVOID looking up recipes, it ruins most of the game. As this game is about survival, not copy - pasting. TRUST me. I learned it the hard way. Also buy the DLC's they're fun. Plus it's cheap.

You know, i kinda wished it had more content. Like, i really like the concept, and would want to delve even deeper into the city-building and society concept of it, but that is a DLC that will cost me almost as much as the basegame.
But as is, totally worth it.

Stacklands is a card game. A village-building card game. A peaceful, cosy card game. Until it isn't.
What starts off as a quaint and soothing experience — stacking carrots, raising chickens, organising your food like a god-fearing homemaker — quickly turns into chaos incarnate. One minute you're admiring your neat little farms and hoarding 47 apples, and the next, you're battling demons with a militia of naked villagers and wondering how your dog ended up wearing dragon-scale armour, dual-wielding swords, and mining gold with a boomerang.
You can sell poop. You can hoard poop. You can sell corpses. Or have 18 of them clogging your board. You might accidentally summon something unholy while trying to cook an omelette. Or lose your entire family to a goblin. Or miss the gym because you just had to finish your moonstone mine before sunrise.
It’s like solitaire and a roguelike went on a camping trip, got attacked by chickens, and accidentally invented capitalism. And somehow, I keep coming back. For the stacking. For the sheds. For the village. For the dog. For vengeance.
Pros:
- Sell poop.
- Dogs can mine.
- Chicken-induced PTSD.
- Accidentally cult.
- Rage poetry optional but encouraged.
- Stack cards. Stack dreams. Stack regrets.
Cons:
- The travelling cart isn’t called a traveling card. >:(
- Emotional damage when an enemy knocks over your board.
- My baby keeps dying and becoming another corpse.
Final Thoughts:
You don’t play Stacklands. You enter it. You surrender to it. You become one with the deck.
Also, someone please tell me what to do with all this gold!!!???

good game, but i want individual save files.