Games like Stacklands
If Stacklands is your kind of game, the closest matches are Throne of Cards, Cardboard Town and WAGON — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its innovative card interaction mode, tactical positioning matters and writing quality is exceptional. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Stacklands is a village-building indie game released in 2022 that combines card mechanics with survival and city-builder elements. Players manage cards through stacking and positioning interactions to gather resources, construct buildings, and keep their villagers alive. The game features procedurally generated content and solo-only gameplay designed for short sessions with a medium-length campaign. Reviewers highlight its innovative card-interaction system and note that tactical positioning matters when playing cards. Players describe the experience as challenging and immersive. Currently priced at $7.99, the game holds a 95% positive rating from over 11,500 Steam reviews and runs verified on Steam Deck.
About Stacklands: Stacklands is a village builder where you stack cards to collect food, build structures, and fight creatures. 🃏 For example, dragging a Villager card on top of a Berry Bush card will spawn Berry cards which the villagers can eat to survive. 🃏 Play your cards right and expand your village!
Players who liked Stacklands also play
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Throne of Cards
WHY THIS
Top pick for Stacklands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Stacklands.
Build a kingdom from a handful of cards. Stack and combine cards to gather resources, train soldiers, unlock powerful decks, and forge a strategy around rulers, artifacts, and survival.
Cardboard Town
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an immersive mood with Stacklands.
Second-strongest match for Stacklands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Stacklands.
Cardboard Town is a city-building card game. Manage your resources, obtain upgrades, draw your cards and thrive! Random events, quest cards, and game modes make each run different.
WAGON
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Stacklands.
Third-strongest match for Stacklands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Stacklands.
WAGON is a 1-bit card game where you make tough decisions to try and survive winter on the Oregon Trail.
Feudalia
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Stacklands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Stacklands.
Feudalia is a deck building and resource card game. Discover how to be a feudal lord and manage the new territories of the kingdom with the help of your vassals. A fun card game that will make you the master of three fiefdoms, make them grow by taking advantage of your card skills.
Cat Guardian
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Stacklands.
Ranked #6 for Stacklands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Stacklands.
Cat Guardian is a flexible card game blending tower defense and survival. Manage resources, build, and strategize to protect the Tree of Hope from zombies. Can the cats of Meowx Planet succeed in their mission and survive? It’s up to you!
Untraveled Lands: Chantico
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Stacklands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Stacklands.
Explore the wild depths of "Untraveled Lands: Chantico" a card-based survival management game mixed with roguelike elements. Build a village, manage survivors, craft essential items and equipment. Unravel jungle mysteries to find your way through a world lost in time.
Paper Kingdom
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Stacklands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Stacklands.
Paper Kingdom is a colony management game. Stack cards to gather resources, build structures, explore and fight invaders. Turn a nomadic tribe into an empire.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Stacklands
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Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an immersive mood with Stacklands.
Reviewers of Stacklands cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Stacklands.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
The Binding of Isaac
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an immersive mood with Stacklands.
Reviewers of Stacklands cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Stacklands.
Now 20% More Evil with the Free Halloween update!
RimWorld
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an immersive mood with Stacklands.
Reviewers of Stacklands cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Stacklands.
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
Stardew Valley
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Stacklands cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Stacklands.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Oxygen Not Included
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Stacklands.
Reviewers of Stacklands cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Stacklands.
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
Terraria
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an immersive mood with Stacklands.
Reviewers of Stacklands cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Stacklands.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Resident Evil 2
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Stacklands cross-mention this title as a similar play.
A deadly virus engulfs the residents of Raccoon City in September of 1998, plunging the city into chaos as flesh eating zombies roam the streets for survivors. An unparalleled adrenaline rush, gripping storyline, and unimaginable horrors await you. Witness the return of Resident Evil 2.
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Stacklands cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Embody the superhuman skill and brutality of a Space Marine. Unleash deadly abilities and devastating weaponry to obliterate the relentless Tyranid swarms. Defend the Imperium in spectacular third-person action in solo or multiplayer modes.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Stacklands at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~88% under Stacklands on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Stacklands.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Stacklands on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Stacklands.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
GRIS
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Stacklands on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Stacklands.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Stacklands on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Stacklands.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~81% under Stacklands on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Stacklands.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~88% under Stacklands on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Stacklands.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Stacklands on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Stacklands.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
A Short Hike
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Stacklands on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Stacklands.
Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Stacklands.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Stacklands.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Stacklands.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Stacklands.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Stacklands.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Stacklands.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Stacklands.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Head-to-head comparisons
More from Sokpop Collective
Other recommendable Steam games by Sokpop Collective, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Simmiland
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Stacklands.
Another title from Sokpop Collective, the studio behind Stacklands. Shares Indie and Simulation with Stacklands.
Simmiland is a god-like card game. In this game you indirectly influence a small civilization by manipulating their surroundings by playing cards 🃏🃏🃏 Playing cards on different biomes and objects will result in different findings. The way you play the game will define how mankind will develop!
Grunn
WHY THIS
Another title from Sokpop Collective, the studio behind Stacklands. Shares Indie and Simulation with Stacklands.
A gardener gets hired for maintenance work over the weekend. A simple task, but strangely some tools are missing… The owner of the garden isn't around, and their house is off-limits. Perhaps new tools can be found in the mysterious town, or maybe some of the reserved townsfolk have seen them?
pyramida
WHY THIS
Another title from Sokpop Collective, the studio behind Stacklands. Shares Indie with Stacklands.
A village builder / survival game. Expand your village by day and fight monsters at night. Learn how to survive, and try to prevent your imminent demise . . .
clickyland
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Stacklands.
Another title from Sokpop Collective, the studio behind Stacklands.
clickyland is a tower defense village builder where clicks are your main resource. Use clicks to harvest resources, fight enemies and manage your village, but use them wisely as you only get 20 clicks every day! Can you reach day 100?
fishy
WHY THIS
Another title from Sokpop Collective, the studio behind Stacklands. Shares Indie and Casual with Stacklands.
A game about a hungry fish 🐟 Eat to grow bigger, but watch out for fishes bigger than you! Grow big, strong and explore! Can you escape the pond?
White Lavender
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Stacklands.
Another title from Sokpop Collective, the studio behind Stacklands. Shares Indie with Stacklands.
A challenging adventure game with RPG-elements. Be a bug, fight other critters with swords and magic, collect powerful items such as pencils and teaspoons, meet cool characters, and up your fashion game on a journey to brew a special tea!
Luckitown
WHY THIS
Another title from Sokpop Collective, the studio behind Stacklands. Shares Indie and Simulation with Stacklands.
Luckitown is a turn-based tower defense where you roll dice to build new structures and cast spells to defend your town.
Ollie & Bollie: Outdoor Estate
WHY THIS
Another title from Sokpop Collective, the studio behind Stacklands. Shares Indie and Casual with Stacklands.
A cute sandbox game about restoring an estate. Work with your (real or AI) friend Bollie to cut trees, catch sheep, build a shed and more in this outdoor autumn sandbox game.
Frequently asked about Stacklands
- Is Stacklands verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Stacklands is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Stacklands cost?
- Stacklands is listed on Steam at 7.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Stacklands?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Stacklands are Throne of Cards, Cardboard Town, WAGON.
- Who developed Stacklands?
- Stacklands was developed by Sokpop Collective.
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