Games Like Stacklands

You're a witch, leading your coven into new, unfriendly lands. Use the cards you find to build and expand your civilization. Befriend the local covens or use their bones to fuel your spells. Gather your familiars, the witching hour is nigh.

Why similar: Card Game 20.6%, Card Battler 17.9%, Management 15.7%, Tabletop 10.3%, Deckbuilding 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: It turns the same drag-and-drop card interactions into a deeper colony-management game where combining workers, resources, and buildings creates satisfying automated chains.

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.

Why similar: Card Game 14.7%, City Builder 13.9%, Solitaire 12.1% ★, Card Battler 10.5%, Building 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: This mixes card draws with compact city-building decisions, capturing Stacklands' small-scale planning and run-based resource balancing.

Card Survival is a card-based survival experience. Stranded on a desert island you must use your wits and skills to stay alive. Use cards and combine them together to explore, gather resources and craft useful tools.

Why similar: Card Game 42%, Survival 26.5%, Hand-drawn 7.9%, Strategy 7%, Roguelite 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the tactile card-based resource and survival management, asking you to turn small item combinations into food, tools, and long-term stability.

Seize forbidden treasures. Summon alien gods. Feed on your disciples. Cultist Simulator is a game of apocalypse and yearning. Play as a seeker after unholy mysteries, in a 1920s-themed setting of hidden gods and secret histories.

Why similar: Card Game 31.2%, Management 22.3%, Tabletop 18.7%, Roguelite 16.2%, Strategy 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its entire real-time loop is built on placing and stacking cards to gather resources, survive pressure, and slowly unlock more complex systems.

A fusion of roguelite, tower defense, city-building, and deck-building! We created a new kind of real time strategy game filled with addictive and fast-paced gameplay. Create your deck, defend your city, and build the largest Ratropolis in history!

Why similar: Card Battler 21.7%, Card Game 20.1%, Deckbuilding 13.1%, Roguelite 11.9%, Survival 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its blend of real-time defense, city growth, and card-driven resource spending hits a similar sweet spot between village management and tactical improvisation.

Farm, sell, learn, repeat. Terracards is a tactical roguelike-deckbuilder where you manage your own farm, You'll utilize animals, crops, and structures through cards, transforming them into valuable resources and wealth with each turn. But beware - deplete your funds, and it's game over.

Why similar: Management 20.6%, Deckbuilding 18.2%, Card Game 17.9%, Roguelite 17.1%, Building 13.4%

Why You'll Like It: You build an ecosystem by placing and chaining cards, making it a strong fit if your favorite part of Stacklands is seeing simple card interactions create larger systems.

Stacks:Space is a space-themed base builder card game with rogue-like elements. Buy booster packs to get new cards, discover craft recipes by stacking cards together, create structures, manufacture drones and droids, defend your base from enemies, visit distant planets, and more!

Why similar: Card Game 42.7%, Management 19.4%, Building 17.6%, Survival 9.7%, Cute 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: It basically ports the same stack-combine-manage formula into a sci-fi setting with crafting, survival, and light colony growth.

Restore a crumbling occult library by a winter sea. Build the world’s foremost collection of grimoires and arcana. Master the invisible arts. BOOK OF HOURS is a narrative crafting RPG set in a 1930s world of hidden gods and secret histories. What sort of Librarian will you choose to be?

Why similar: Card Game 29.5%, Management 18.1%, Tabletop 17.3%, Deckbuilding 15.2%, Building 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: Like a calmer, more narrative cousin to Stacklands, it revolves around arranging cards in workstations to craft items, manage time, and expand a layered base.

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!

Why similar: Card Game 56.2%, Simulation 21.9%, Strategy 8.4%, Indie 7.6%, Casual 2.7%

Why You'll Like It: This is another light strategy game where cards directly create land, resources, and civilization development in a very hands-on tabletop style.

There's nowhere to go but up! Vertical Kingdom is a card-based city builder roguelite with a twist - you can only build vertically, literally reaching for the sky with each city. Lead expeditions to gather resources, construct metropolises, and build ever upwards!

Why similar: Card Game 19%, City Builder 17.9%, Management 12.5%, Roguelite 10.4%, Survival 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a run-based city builder with card play and tight space management, which lines up well with Stacklands' compact decision making.

The Wandering Village is a city-building simulation game on the back of a giant, wandering creature. Build your settlement and form a symbiotic relationship with the colossus. Will you survive together in this hostile, yet beautiful post-apocalyptic world, contaminated by poisonous plants?

Why similar: City Builder 38.4%, Management 31.2%, Survival 16.5%, Simulation 6.5%, Cute 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: If you want the survival-town side of Stacklands expanded into a fuller colony sim, this delivers resource chains, threat management, and steady settlement growth.

Build by day, defend by night! Kingdom's Deck is a card-based city builder where you build and protect your Kingdom from the enemy siege. Build your deck, deploy your cards wisely, defend your walls, manage your resources, and respond to various events that will shape your Kingdom!

Why similar: Card Game 26.2%, City Builder 25%, Management 15%, Survival 13.5%, Building 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: It combines deck-driven choices with base building and survival pressure, echoing Stacklands' mix of expansion planning and constrained resources.

The Lich has thrown the world into a timeless loop and plunged its inhabitants into never ending chaos. Wield an expanding deck of mystical cards to place enemies, buildings, and terrain along each unique expedition loop for the brave hero.

Why similar: Card Game 38.9%, Deckbuilding 26.8%, Roguelite 24.7%, 2D 4.7%, Fantasy 2.6%

Why You'll Like It: Although more combat-focused, it scratches a similar itch by using cards to shape the world, build resource engines, and survive escalating runs.

Luck be a Landlord is a roguelike deckbuilder about using a slot machine to earn rent money and defeat capitalism. This game does not contain any real-world currency gambling or microtransactions.

Why similar: Deckbuilding 28.2%, Roguelite 25.9%, Management 21.7%, Strategy 10.5%, Simulation 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: This isn't a builder, but its compact engine-building and 'make the most of each draw' rhythm feels very close to Stacklands' satisfying optimization loop.

A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.

Why similar: City Builder 24.8%, Management 19.8%, Survival 14.9%, Roguelite 14.3%, Building 13.7%

Why You'll Like It: It drops the card interface but keeps the roguelite colony-building, survival tension, and constant pressure to turn scarce resources into a thriving settlement.

Develop a prestigious university of mages. Build rooms, train your students, fight orcs, slay the bureaucrats, manage your budget... a director's life is not a quiet one.

Why similar: Management 56.8%, Simulation 13.1%, Strategy 13.1%, Colorful 8.9%, Singleplayer 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its management loop is built around drawing card packs to expand and specialize a growing institution, making it feel like a more elaborate card-based builder.

Dorfromantik is a peaceful building strategy and puzzle game where you create a beautiful and ever-growing village landscape by placing tiles. Explore a variety of colorful biomes, discover and unlock new tiles and complete quests to fill your world with life!

Why similar: City Builder 54.4%, Hand-drawn 14.5%, Strategy 13.5%, Simulation 8.2%, Casual 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: This is a softer, puzzle-driven take on compact settlement growth that scratches the same cozy optimization itch as Stacklands.

Shape worlds with your godly titans. Make symbiotic ecosystems and inspire humanity with your creations. Their achievements unlock new possibilities. Make different planets for different human spirits, and fill the universe with life!

Why similar: City Builder 36.4%, Management 29.1%, Building 11.8%, Strategy 9.2%, Simulation 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: Like Stacklands, it's about combining simple elements into fertile production chains, only here the card-like synergies play out on a god-game map.

Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.

Why similar: City Builder 49.4%, Building 16.3%, Management 10%, Strategy 9.4%, Survival 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: It keeps the approachable village-building and food-defense balance that makes Stacklands compelling, just in a more traditional city-builder format.

Welcome to the mystical world of Kainga, an unusual roguelite village-builder! Take control of a Thinker and, with the help of your people, grow a unique town to complete short challenges while discovering the world and adapting to the pressures of the environment, beasts and other tribes.

Why similar: City Builder 35.6%, Roguelite 21.5%, Management 15.2%, Hand-drawn 8.5%, Strategy 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the same small-settlement experimentation and unlock-driven replayability, even though it uses villagers and buildings instead of cards.

ISLANDERS is a minimalist strategy game about building cities on colorful islands.

Why similar: City Builder 55.4%, Building 24.3%, Strategy 12.5%, Colorful 2.9%, Indie 2.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its clean, minimalist building puzzle appeals for the same reason Stacklands does: every placement matters, and small combos snowball into elegant efficiency.

Clanfolk is a colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands. Harness your environment to survive - fish, gather, hunt, and farm as you prepare for the winter. Build an inn, trade with other clans, have children and marry them off - live life and prosper across the generations.

Why similar: Building 44.5%, Cute 15.5%, Simulation 14.1%, 2D 9.9%, Casual 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its intimate household-level survival and production planning mirror the way Stacklands turns basic needs and simple workers into a larger village story.

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.

Why similar: Survival 36.4%, Management 23.9%, Building 21.4%, Strategy 6.6%, Simulation 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: This is a much denser colony sim, but it rewards the same love of resource chains, survival planning, and turning chaos into sustainable systems.

In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.

Why similar: City Builder 50.4%, Survival 19.4%, Strategy 9.6%, Management 7%, Simulation 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the same core fantasy of keeping a tiny settlement alive through careful food, labor, and expansion management.

An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!

Why similar: Management 38.8%, Building 28.2%, Strategy 15.4%, Simulation 11.2%, Singleplayer 3.3%

Why You'll Like It: It turns the same simple-gathering-to-complex-production progression into a first-person builder, with a similarly addictive sense of constant incremental growth.

Northgard: Definitive Edition is a critically acclaimed real-time strategy game based on Norse mythology. Lead your clan, uncover the secrets of a mysterious newfound continent and defeat your enemies to conquer the Throne!

Why similar: City Builder 46.2%, Management 18.7%, Building 13.6%, Strategy 12.5%, Simulation 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: The resource pressure, seasonal survival, and gradual territorial expansion make it a good pick if you liked Stacklands' harsher settlement-management side.

Rana Card is a roguelike deck-builder where you play as a farm manager chasing TimeTech's KPI targets. Draw cards in high-stakes moments, survive Time Explosions, and unlock powerful cards. Build your deck, chart your own path, and face branching events and cataclysmic years on the road to success.

Why similar: Card Game 33.7%, Deckbuilding 17.7%, Roguelite 16.6%, Solitaire 10.3% ★, Strategy 6.7%

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.

Why similar: Card Game 14.3%, Card Battler 13.1%, Solitaire 12.6% ★, City Builder 11.6%, Management 10.2%

In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.

Why similar: Management 30.6%, Building 24.8%, Simulation 15.1%, Cute 9.9%, Strategy 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: If the best part of Stacklands for you was creating efficient little production loops, this pushes that idea further through approachable automation.

A PvP inventory management auto battler! Buy and craft powerful items, then carefully arrange them in your backpack.

Why similar: Card Battler 50.9%, Strategy 25.2%, Hand-drawn 8.1%, Cute 6%, 2D 4.5%

As the Queen's latest governor, build a colonial empire in Her name. Claim islands, collect their natural resources, build production chains, and turn a derelict outpost into a rebellious, bustling metropolis at the heart of a New World commercial empire!

Why similar: City Builder 32%, Management 21.7%, Survival 18.9%, Building 17.2%, Simulation 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes compact colony management, resource logistics, and expanding a tiny settlement across limited space in a similarly readable way.

A fast-paced roguelike kingdom builder. Grow your empire and fight massive battles against powerful rival kings. Break the game with thousands of insane builds to become the King of Kings.

Why similar: Card Game 26.9%, Card Battler 26.6%, Deckbuilding 15.9%, Roguelite 14.3%, Strategy 6.6%

Card Cultivation is a card management game that visualizes the process of cultivating immortality through cards. In the game, you will play as a cultivation practitioner: cultivate techniques, explore treasures, and craft weapons, Throughout re-cultivation, you will recover memory.

Why similar: Card Game 16.5%, Solitaire 15.9% ★, Card Battler 15.2%, Management 11.9%, Tabletop 9.5%

Build a prosperous settlement in a unique simulation of a feudal economy - each family runs their shop, owns their goods, and trades with other villagers in a free market. You will manage the land, build houses, organise events, set taxes, and balance supply and demand while engaging in diplomacy!

Why similar: City Builder 34.3%, Management 27.4%, Building 16.6%, Strategy 9%, Simulation 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its focus on interconnected production chains and managing a growing village makes it a solid, more simulation-heavy follow-up.

Become a giant walking dice, explore dungeons and defy Lady Luck in this dice powered roguelike! Now featuring "Reunion", a free DLC with six brand-new episodes!

Why similar: Card Battler 37.4%, Card Game 18%, Deckbuilding 17.4%, Roguelite 14.1%, Strategy 4.6%

DICEOMANCER is a roguelike deck-building game. Though you long for a peaceful life, you're forced to embark on an adventure. In this world of swords, magic, and guns, make good use of your dice and deck to find a way back to tranquility! What can the dice be used for? To change... anything.

Why similar: Card Game 35.2%, Card Battler 30.8%, Deckbuilding 14.5%, Strategy 12.1%, Colorful 3.9%

This is a Rogue Deck-building game where you play as a mayor, recruit various citizens to earn coins, meet their needs, and submit enough coins by the deadline to complete challenges.

Why similar: Card Game 30.9%, Card Battler 24.4%, Roguelite 19.1%, Deckbuilding 10.3%, Strategy 9.6%

Peglin is a Pachinko Roguelike - Fight enemies by collecting special orbs and popping pegs to deal damage. Acquire special relics that radically change the game and ensure no two runs are the same. Aim carefully to survive in this unique turn-based RPG!

Why similar: Deckbuilding 36.8%, Roguelite 30.6%, Strategy 11.4%, Cute 8.7%, 2D 5.4%

Kaya’s Prophecy is a unique card based village builder! establish your village, gather resources, and craft tools and buildings in a vibrant world. Explore and combat various challenges and other groups in this colourful, deck-builder while appeasing your god to earn his favour.

Why similar: Card Game 23.7%, City Builder 22.6%, Management 16.6%, Roguelite 11.2%, Building 8%

Take on the elements in Wildfrost, a tactical roguelike deckbuilder! Journey across a frozen tundra, collecting cards strong enough to banish the eternal winter…

Why similar: Card Battler 31.5%, Card Game 28.1%, Deckbuilding 15.4%, Roguelite 14.6%, Strategy 4.9%

BALLIONAIRE is a fast-paced, kinetic roguelike where strategy meets physics to create outrageous wealth! Find and exploit game-breaking synergies as you theorycraft your way to victory. Welcome to the autobonker genre!

Why similar: Card Game 24.1%, Card Battler 23.8%, Deckbuilding 15.9%, Roguelite 14.6%, Strategy 6.3%

Lead hundreds of "wise" little animals to pay tribute to the Cat God!! 7 animal families, 100+ animals, 10+ Cat Gods, 100+ items, and various animal combinations waiting for you to explore!

Why similar: Management 22.8%, Card Battler 22.4%, Card Game 18.9%, Deckbuilding 13.6%, Roguelite 11.4%

Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...

Why similar: Card Battler 33.1%, Card Game 31%, Deckbuilding 17.3%, Roguelite 11.9%, Strategy 5.1%

Raise an undead army in Decks of the Damned! Command your vampire minions, scavenge gear from fallen foes and craft powerful items to strenghten your forces. Defend by day, expand your domain by night, and shroud the land in darkness!

Why similar: Card Game 17.5%, Card Battler 16.5%, Solitaire 12.7% ★, Management 12.7%, Survival 9.7%

Potion Craft is an alchemist simulator where you physically interact with your tools and ingredients to brew potions. You're in full control of the whole shop: invent new recipes, attract customers and experiment to your heart's content. Just remember: the whole town is counting on you.

Why similar: Management 51.5%, Hand-drawn 15.6%, Simulation 12.3%, 2D 7.3%, Singleplayer 5.8%

Cookard is a cooking game where you run a restaurant by stacking cards to prepare and serve dishes to customers.

Why similar: Card Game 26.5%, Solitaire 21.7% ★, City Builder 15.2%, Management 14.6%, Tabletop 9.7%

A minimalist game about building and defending your little kingdom.

Why similar: City Builder 55.2%, Building 18.9%, Strategy 16.3%, Colorful 4.8%, Fantasy 2.1%

Build the strongest team of pets and tussle with your friends!

Why similar: Card Battler 32.4%, Card Game 25.5%, Strategy 15.7%, Cute 9.4%, Deckbuilding 6%

The inventory management roguelike! Collect rare items, organize your backpack, and vanquish your foes!

Why similar: Card Battler 29.5%, Deckbuilding 20.5%, Roguelite 16.6%, Building 15.9%, Strategy 7.4%

The poker roguelike. Balatro is a hypnotically satisfying deckbuilder where you play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers, and trigger adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos.

Why similar: Card Game 37.3%, Card Battler 19%, Deckbuilding 17.7%, Roguelite 13.1%, Strategy 6.4%

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!

Why similar: Card Game 35.5%, Card Battler 34.3%, Deckbuilding 15%, Roguelite 8.4%, Strategy 4.3%

Experience building your own village with different races in a fantasy world! Produce more villagers for various production tasks and train more guards to resist waves of demonic attacks. Plan the production of supplies to create more powerful equipment for the guards to wear.

Why similar: Deckbuilding 22.7%, Roguelite 21.8%, Card Game 19.9%, Building 13%, Strategy 10.6%

Fancy some cards, alchemist? Grime & Gold is a small game about stacking and mixing cards to craft strange recipes. Open boosters, delve into dungeons to find rare resources, hire goblins to help you to craft the Holy Grail and save the city, and don't forget to serve your shady clients!

Why similar: Solitaire 23% ★, Card Battler 22.4%, Card Game 17.1%, Management 13.4%, Survival 10.4%

Battle your way through a seedy tavern filled with gambling addicted townspeople in this Blackjack Roguelike Adventure. From aces and face cards to tarot cards, business cards and more, create your unique deck to beat the house.

Why similar: Card Game 29.6%, Card Battler 26.2%, Deckbuilding 17.2%, Roguelite 13.5%, Strategy 7.1%

The King is Watching is a roguelite kingdom builder. Rule by the power of your royal gaze! Decide between producing resources, training armies, or balancing both, while adapting to unique events every run

Why similar: City Builder 41%, Roguelite 24.6%, Deckbuilding 19.5%, Strategy 11.5%, Fantasy 3.5%

Harvest cards to raise land from the sea, build settlements and rain fire upon invaders in this survival city-builder with roguelike deckbuilding mechanics. Choose from 4 gods with unique cards, playstyles and abilities to lead their civilisations to victory in strategic run-based gameplay!

Why similar: City Builder 28.5%, Card Game 25.6%, Deckbuilding 15.9%, Survival 14.2%, Strategy 7.5%

Crop Rotation is a farming-theme card drafting game. Cards are played automatically so you can focus on the deck building and building synergies.

Why similar: Card Game 48.6%, Deckbuilding 30%, Strategy 9.6%, 2D 4.6%, Simulation 3.1%

Rebuild your kingdom and explore a vibrant fantasy world in this roguelite city builder. Defeat hordes of monsters with a unique team of defenders as you harvest, build, mine, cook, brew, and grow. But if your defenses should fail, be prepared to watch it all burn!

Why similar: Card Game 27.2%, Card Battler 26.6%, Deckbuilding 15.8%, Roguelite 15.4%, Strategy 6.7%

Castle Cardians fused card games,roguelike and real time colony defense together. Build your powerful deck, defend the castle and beat invaders.

Why similar: Card Game 34.1%, Card Battler 26.8%, Deckbuilding 20.8%, Strategy 8.8%, Cute 4.1%

Tiny Kingdom is a minimalist city-building strategy game where every placement matters. Start with a single hut and grow a thriving kingdom by combining buildings, unlocking synergies, and creating efficient layouts.

Why similar: City Builder 23.8%, Card Game 22.3%, Management 16.1%, Deckbuilding 14.6%, Building 12.4%