Stacklands

Stacklands (2022) is a strategy game where you stack cards so that your village can survive. You combine cards to grow food, build structures and fight monsters. Each of these three actions is a choice, make the right choices and your village grows, make the wrong choices and everyone dies. It's a uniquely simple strategy game ideal for youngsters not ready for a full Age of Empires or Civilisation challenge.

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Play starts with you stacking the cards from the initial deck, so that you can create food and other resources that your villager needs. The key task is to feed your villager before the end of each day. Once that has elapsed you can sell excess resources for currency to purchase new sets of cards that expand your village in new ways - cooking, farming and building.

As you progress, you take on challenges like fighting off dangerous creatures or stopping animals disturbing your carefully built stacks of cards. You slowly gain access to more complex combinations of cards that enable you to develop more complex buildings and grow your community.

What starts as a relaxing game of organising cards, quickly becomes a frantic race against time to ensure that the right things happen in the right order so you can stave off the almost ever present threat of your villagers untimely demise.

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Our examiner, Rob Prior, first checked Stacklands (Sokpop) 2 years ago. It was re-examined by Andy Robertson and updated 18 months ago.