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 20.8%, Card Battler 17.5%, Management 15.7%, Tabletop 10.3%, Deckbuilding 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: This is one of the closest matches on Steam, blending card-based resource chains, colony management, and strategic expansion in a similarly compact format.

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 42.8%, Management 19.3%, Building 17.5%, Survival 9.8%, Cute 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: It directly translates Stacklands-style card stacking and resource crafting into a sci-fi colony setting.

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 44.7%, Survival 27.8%, Hand-drawn 9.2%, Strategy 7.9%, Simulation 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: It uses cards to represent every survival system, making moment-to-moment play feel like a deeper, harsher survival-focused cousin of Stacklands.

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 18%, Roguelite 16.9%, Building 13.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its card-driven resource management and roguelite progression scratch a lot of the same build-combo-survive itch.

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 14.9%, City Builder 14%, Solitaire 12.2% ★, Card Battler 10.3%, Building 9%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the card-based city-building side of Stacklands with a light, compact structure and constant resource-balancing decisions.

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 31.7%, Management 22.3%, Tabletop 18.6%, Roguelite 16%, Strategy 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: Like Stacklands, it revolves around dragging cards together to discover recipes, manage timers, and build a fragile engine of survival and growth.

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 56.5%, Simulation 21.4%, Strategy 8.5%, Indie 7.5%, Casual 2.7%

Why You'll Like It: You use cards to shape a growing civilization, making it a good match for Stacklands players who like systemic world-building through simple interactions.

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 21.3%, Card Game 20.3%, Deckbuilding 13.1%, Roguelite 11.8%, Survival 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its blend of card play, base growth, and survival defense feels like a more combat-heavy spin on Stacklands' small-scale management loop.

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 14.3%, Strategy 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: This mixes deckbuilding and settlement survival, giving you that same tension of growing a tiny civilization while fending off collapse.

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 31.1%, Survival 16.6%, Simulation 6.4%, Cute 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers the same satisfying cycle of keeping a small settlement alive through constant production, expansion, and survival tradeoffs.

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 19.1%, City Builder 18%, Management 12.4%, Roguelite 10.3%, Survival 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a card-based city-building structure with constrained planning and run-based progression that will appeal to Stacklands fans.

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 39%, Deckbuilding 26.8%, Roguelite 24.4%, 2D 4.7%, Fantasy 2.7%

Why You'll Like It: It shares Stacklands' pleasure of building a self-sustaining system out of cards, resources, and careful risk management.

Build settlements, explore the Nine Realms, collect artifacts and upgrade your deck to reach the top of Yggdrasil in this post-Ragnarok roguelike city-builder! Can you survive the end of the world?

Why similar: City Builder 37.3%, Deckbuilding 29.5%, Roguelite 19.4%, Strategy 9.2%, Indie 2.4%

Why You'll Like It: This is a strong fit if you want a more overt roguelite city-builder where cards drive expansion, upgrades, and survival choices.

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 28.4%, Roguelite 25.5%, Management 21.8%, Strategy 10.6%, Simulation 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: While it's not a builder, it nails the same small-scale engine-building thrill of turning simple pieces into increasingly powerful synergies.

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 25.3%, Management 19.7%, Survival 15%, Roguelite 14.3%, Building 13.5%

Why You'll Like It: Even without the stacking mechanic, its roguelite settlement-building and survival-driven resource juggling are an excellent thematic and mechanical match.

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 54.3%, Hand-drawn 14.8%, Strategy 13.3%, Simulation 8.1%, Casual 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: This is a softer, more relaxing match that captures Stacklands' clean, satisfying spatial optimization and incremental settlement-building feel.

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 22.9%, Card Battler 22%, Card Game 19.2%, Deckbuilding 13.7%, Roguelite 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its compact management, combo-oriented systems, and run-based structure line up well with the more puzzle-like side of Stacklands.

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 37.2%, Management 22%, Survival 15.3%, Building 14%, Strategy 7%

Why You'll Like It: It drops the cards but keeps the cozy-yet-tense loop of expanding a settlement while managing food, safety, and growth.

A minimalist game about building and defending your little kingdom.

Why similar: City Builder 55.3%, Building 18.7%, Strategy 16.2%, Colorful 4.7%, Fantasy 2.2%

Why You'll Like It: It offers minimalist kingdom-building with immediate survival pressure, making it a good fit if you liked Stacklands' streamlined strategic pacing.

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 35.7%, Roguelite 21.2%, Management 15.1%, Hand-drawn 8.7%, Strategy 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: This is another compact survival city-builder where each run is about adapting your settlement to threats, resources, and random opportunities.

Terraform Mars in this turn-based colony builder and resource management game with roguelike elements. Explore the planet, develop spectacular cities, spread life and turn the Red Planet into a green one!

Why similar: Card Game 37.2%, Management 27%, Survival 25.9%, Simulation 7.5%, Singleplayer 2.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its card-driven colony development and strategic resource planning make it a natural pick if you enjoy building systems from limited options.

Village elder, help us! The Apocalypse is approaching, and we need your guidance to survive. Assign your workers and build a thriving village against the pending doom. DotAGE is the merciless survival roguelite turn-based city builder. Will you fulfill the Prophecy?

Why similar: City Builder 27%, Tabletop 18.3%, Roguelite 16.4%, Survival 15.9%, Building 12.6%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes small-scale village survival, resource chains, and disaster management in a way that feels very close to Stacklands' core tension.

The highly popular and quirky "idle game that you want to actively keep playing". Explore, craft, gather & manage resources, find secrets and build your base out of nothing! Buy land to explore and expand!

Why similar: Survival 57.5%, Building 22.3%, 2D 7.1%, Simulation 4.1%, Indie 4%

Why You'll Like It: This captures the same addictive loop of gathering, crafting, unlocking, and rapidly snowballing a tiny economy.

Build a mobile village and travel with your tribe toward the center of the world, called The Eye. This roguelike turn-based resource-management game is made of procedural situations, natural events, skill-trees and hard choices. Ready to move?

Why similar: City Builder 25.1%, Management 17.7%, Tabletop 17.2%, Survival 15.3%, Building 14.7%

Why You'll Like It: This combines roguelite structure, survival logistics, and village management in a way that echoes Stacklands' run-based planning.

Sail, scavenge, and rescue survivors in a vibrant floating city-builder. Captain your drifters across the endless garbage sea to uncover soaked ruins, rusting factories, and stories from the old world.

Why similar: City Builder 37.2%, Survival 23%, Building 17.5%, Strategy 8.2%, Cute 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: Managing a tiny survival settlement with scarce resources and constant upkeep gives it a similar scrappy colony-building energy.

Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?

Why similar: City Builder 40.9%, Survival 24.8%, Building 11.3%, Management 10.8%, Strategy 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: This is a much harsher version of the survive-and-expand formula, focused on keeping a struggling settlement alive under constant pressure.

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

Why similar: City Builder 55.5%, Building 24.2%, Strategy 12.5%, Colorful 3%, Indie 2.6%

Why You'll Like It: This is a lighter and more abstract choice, but its elegant, compact city-building and optimization will appeal to the same mindset.

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 17.6%, Roguelite 16.4%, Solitaire 10.9% ★, Strategy 6.5%

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 46.5%, Management 18.7%, Building 13.5%, Strategy 12.5%, Simulation 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its mix of survival, resource management, and controlled village growth makes it a solid broader alternative to 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.

Why similar: Card Game 14.4%, Card Battler 12.8%, Solitaire 12.8% ★, City Builder 11.6%, Management 10.2%

The Tribe Must Survive is a survival base builder strategy game set in a harsh Lovecraftian Stone Age. Build your camp, overcome disasters and uncover new areas. Manage fears and diminish internal conflicts, as your Tribe grows. Every decision matters. Will your Tribe survive?

Why similar: Management 25%, Survival 21.3%, Building 18.8%, Roguelite 18.7%, Strategy 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on keeping a vulnerable settlement functioning under relentless survival pressure, which matches Stacklands' precarious colony feel.

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 24.3%, Card Battler 23.3%, Deckbuilding 16%, Roguelite 14.6%, Strategy 6.3%

Plant, grow, and harvest in this farming roguelite deckbuilder. Craft a powerful deck of plants and combine quirky scarecrows with passive effects for wild synergies. Pay taxes. Strategic, satisfying, and delightfully wholesome.

Why similar: Card Game 31.9%, Deckbuilding 19.8%, Roguelite 19.1%, Management 12.4%, Strategy 8.4%

In Reus, you control powerful giants to shape the planet to your will. You can create mountains, oceans, forests and more. Enrich your planet with plants, minerals and animal life. There is only one thing on the planet that you do not control: mankind, with all their virtues and and all their vices.

Why similar: Strategy 43%, Simulation 17.9%, Indie 9.9%, 2D 8.5%, Management 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its systemic god-game design is all about combining resources and terrain effects to help a civilization grow through clever interactions.

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 35.7%, Card Battler 29.8%, Deckbuilding 15.2%, Strategy 11.9%, Colorful 3.9%

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 51.6%, Hand-drawn 16%, Simulation 12.2%, 2D 7.2%, Singleplayer 5.7%

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 36.8%, Card Game 18.3%, Deckbuilding 17.6%, Roguelite 14%, Strategy 4.6%

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 38.1%, Card Battler 18%, Deckbuilding 17.8%, Roguelite 13.1%, Strategy 6.4%

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 30.4%, Card Game 27.9%, Deckbuilding 15.3%, Roguelite 14.3%, Strategy 4.8%

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 31.3%, Card Battler 23.9%, Roguelite 18.9%, Deckbuilding 10.4%, Strategy 9.7%

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 36.9%, Roguelite 30.3%, Strategy 11.4%, Cute 8.8%, 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 23.8%, City Builder 22.7%, Management 16.6%, Roguelite 11.1%, Building 7.9%

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

Why similar: Card Battler 50%, Strategy 25.7%, Hand-drawn 8.3%, Cute 6%, 2D 4.5%

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 32.6%, Card Game 31.4%, Deckbuilding 17.5%, Roguelite 11.9%, Strategy 5.1%

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 14.9%, Survival 13.6%, Building 8.8%

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 30%, Card Battler 25.7%, Deckbuilding 17.4%, Roguelite 13.4%, Strategy 7.1%

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

Why similar: Card Game 26.8%, Solitaire 21.8% ★, City Builder 15%, Management 14.6%, Tabletop 9.6%

shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!

Why similar: Management 39.7%, Building 26.1%, Strategy 15.5%, Simulation 5.5%, 2D 5.3%

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

Why similar: Card Battler 29%, Deckbuilding 20.7%, Roguelite 16.5%, Building 16%, Strategy 7.4%

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 27.3%, Card Battler 25.9%, Deckbuilding 16%, Roguelite 14.3%, Strategy 6.7%

A coin-pushing dopamine machine. RACCOIN is a roguelike deckbuilder where you combine special coins with powerful items to trigger wildly satisfying combos. Stack shiny towers, spin the lucky wheel, and shake the machine until all the coins drop.

Why similar: Card Game 29.8%, Deckbuilding 22.7%, Roguelite 17.6%, Strategy 10.8%, Cute 6%

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 22.8%, Roguelite 21.6%, Card Game 20.1%, Building 13%, Strategy 10.6%

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 35.9%, Card Battler 33.7%, Deckbuilding 15.1%, Roguelite 8.3%, Strategy 4.4%

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 23.9%, Card Game 22.4%, Management 16%, Deckbuilding 14.6%, Building 12.3%

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 23.3% ★, Card Battler 21.8%, Card Game 17.2%, Management 13.4%, Survival 10.6%

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 17.7%, Card Battler 16.1%, Solitaire 12.9% ★, Management 12.7%, Survival 9.9%

Dungeon Clawler is a Roguelike Claw Machine Deckbuilder. Build your deck, grab weapons and items from the claw machine to battle enemies, discover powerful perks that create game-changing synergies and unleash crazy combos as you fight your way through the dungeon!

Why similar: Deckbuilding 29.6%, Roguelite 28.2%, Strategy 12.3%, Cute 9.7%, Simulation 7.4%

Start your own cult in a land of false prophets, venturing out into diverse and mysterious regions to build a loyal community of woodland Followers and spread your Word to become the one true cult.

Why similar: Roguelite 33.4%, Building 26.3%, Cute 13.9%, Strategy 8.6%, 2D 5.7%

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 34.4%, Card Battler 26.2%, Deckbuilding 20.9%, Strategy 8.8%, Cute 4.2%

Mini Motorways is a strategy simulation game about designing the road map for a growing city. Build a traffic network, one road at a time, to create a bustling metropolis. Redesign your roads and place your motorways to get everyone where they need to go. How long can you keep the city moving?

Why similar: Management 33.7%, City Builder 18.8%, Strategy 16.3%, Building 14.1%, Simulation 9.1%