Games Like 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.

Why similar: Card Game 14.8%, City Builder 14.2%, Solitaire 12.3% ★, Card Battler 10.2%, Building 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: This blends city-building with card play and tough resource decisions in a way that closely matches Stacklands' compact, combo-driven management style.

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 42.5%, Management 19.2%, Building 17.7%, Survival 9.9%, Cute 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: It is essentially the closest cousin to Stacklands, translating the same stack-combine survival loop into a sci-fi setting with resource crafting and colony growth.

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 17.4%, Management 15.6%, Tabletop 10.4%, Deckbuilding 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its card-based economy, expanding settlement, and constant balancing of production, exploration, and threats feel very similar to Stacklands at a larger scale.

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 20.5%, Deckbuilding 18.1%, Card Game 18%, Roguelite 16.8%, Building 13.5%

Why You'll Like It: It uses cards to grow a settlement and manage resources on a hostile world, making it a strong match for Stacklands' survival-builder loop.

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 44.5%, Survival 28.1%, Hand-drawn 9.2%, Strategy 7.9%, Simulation 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: Although more survival-focused than village-building, it shares Stacklands' tactile card-based systems, crafting chains, and constant fight to stay fed and alive.

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 56.3%, Simulation 21.6%, Strategy 8.5%, Indie 7.5%, Casual 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: Like Stacklands, it turns world-building into a chain of card interactions where discovering clever combinations is a big part of the appeal.

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 18.2%, Management 12.3%, Roguelite 10.2%, Survival 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: This is another card-driven builder where placement, planning, and limited resources create the same elegant puzzle-box feeling as Stacklands.

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 21.1%, Card Game 20.3%, Deckbuilding 13.1%, Roguelite 11.7%, Survival 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: It combines city management and card play with survival pressure, giving you the same satisfying feeling of building up a tiny society under constant threat.

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 38.7%, Management 30.7%, Survival 16.7%, Simulation 6.4%, Cute 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: This offers a survival-focused settlement builder where managing scarce resources and carefully expanding your village is the core challenge.

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%, City Builder 25.3%, Management 14.7%, Survival 13.7%, Building 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its mix of city-building, survival pressure, and card-based progression makes it a natural fit for players who want more strategic settlement growth through cards.

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 25.6%, Management 19.4%, Survival 14.9%, Roguelite 14.4%, Building 13.4%

Why You'll Like It: While not card-based in the same way, it nails the survival-city-builder tension of juggling food, production, and expansion in compact runs.

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 22.2%, Tabletop 18.7%, Roguelite 15.8%, Strategy 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: It is darker and more narrative, but its real-time card-combination systems and discovery-driven resource management strongly echo Stacklands' experimental card play.

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 27.1%, Tabletop 18.4%, Roguelite 16%, Survival 16%, Building 12.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its turn-based village survival and constant pressure from limited resources, disasters, and long-term planning make it feel like a deeper Stacklands-style survival puzzle.

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%, Management 26.8%, Survival 26.2%, Simulation 7.6%, Singleplayer 2.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its card-powered city development and resource planning scratch a similar itch if you like Stacklands' streamlined strategic growth.

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 54.5%, Hand-drawn 14.8%, Strategy 13.2%, Simulation 8.1%, Casual 4%

Why You'll Like It: It lacks the survival pressure, yet its calm tile-based village building captures Stacklands' satisfying feeling of steadily assembling a world piece by piece.

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 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its blend of management, card systems, and building up a productive space gives off a similar low-scale, systems-driven charm.

Face the judgment of winter’s deadly toll as you lead the first Viking clans to settle Iceland in this non-violent, rogue-lite survival base builder.

Why similar: City Builder 28.1%, Survival 18.9%, Roguelite 17.8%, Management 12.5%, Building 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: This is a minimalist survival strategy game built around harsh resource constraints and careful expansion, much like Stacklands' constant optimization loop.

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 25.2%, Management 17.4%, Tabletop 17.2%, Survival 15.4%, Building 14.7%

Why You'll Like It: It mixes roguelite structure with settlement management and resource planning, capturing Stacklands' run-based feeling of building and surviving on the fly.

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 56.7%, Simulation 13.1%, Strategy 13%, Colorful 9%, Singleplayer 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its use of cards to shape and expand a management sim makes it a great pick if you enjoy the build-through-draws structure of Stacklands.

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 46.7%, Management 18.5%, Building 13.5%, Strategy 12.4%, Simulation 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the same satisfying loop of gathering, surviving, and growing a fragile settlement, just in a larger real-time strategy format.

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 22.4%, 2D 7%, Simulation 4.1%, Indie 4%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the same addictive resource-harvesting and crafting momentum that makes Stacklands so hard to put down, even without the card interface.

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 44.9%, Cute 15.4%, Simulation 13.9%, 2D 9.7%, Casual 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: If your favorite part of Stacklands is turning raw resources into a self-sustaining little community, this deeper colony sim hits that same fantasy.

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 36.9%, Management 23.6%, Building 21.3%, Strategy 6.5%, Simulation 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: This is much more complex, but it offers that same joy of solving intertwined survival and production problems inside a growing colony.

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 50.6%, Survival 19.7%, Strategy 9.4%, Management 6.9%, Simulation 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: This is a classic survival town-builder centered on food, labor, and growth, making it a strong non-card alternative to Stacklands' village-management side.

Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!

Why similar: Survival 51.7%, Building 36.7%, 2D 7%, Indie 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: It combines survival, crafting, and settlement growth with more exploration and combat, making it a good fit if you want Stacklands with a broader sandbox.

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 26.7%, Roguelite 24.3%, 2D 4.7%, Fantasy 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its elegant loop of placing cards to shape survival, resource gain, and progression feels adjacent to Stacklands' love of simple mechanics creating complex outcomes.

Gather coins, build defenses and reclaim your fallen Kingdom. Explore and uncover secrets, unlock new technologies and protect your crown versus waves of Greed monsters that come at night. Kingdom is a solo or co-op micro-strategy and tower defense game set in an atmospheric pixel world.

Why similar: City Builder 39.5%, Survival 20.9%, Building 20.6%, Strategy 8.7%, Simulation 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its simple but tense loop of collecting resources, building defenses, and surviving nightly threats mirrors Stacklands' elegant survival-management rhythm.

Build a new home for your team of robots as they begin a new life for themselves on a distant planet where they can fulfil their ultimate dream: to be human.

Why similar: City Builder 31.6%, Management 22.2%, Building 16.7%, Survival 16.3%, Strategy 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its charming focus on building up production chains and expanding a small settlement matches the constructive, incremental appeal of Stacklands.

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 41.2%, Survival 24.9%, Building 11.2%, Management 10.7%, Strategy 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: If you want the survival-management pressure of Stacklands pushed into a harsher city-builder, Frostpunk delivers tough choices and constant scarcity.

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 33.6%, Deckbuilding 17.5%, Roguelite 16.2%, Solitaire 11% ★, Strategy 6.5%

Land Above Sea Below is an atmospheric building strategy and puzzle game where you have to build your island from tiles in order to raise its height as much as possible, to avoid it getting flooded by the constantly rising sea level.

Why similar: City Builder 47.4%, Building 23.3%, Strategy 11.8%, Cute 7.5%, Colorful 3.2%

Why You'll Like It: This leans more puzzle-like, but its card-style tile placement and compact building decisions appeal to the same players who enjoy Stacklands' neat, board-sized planning.

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%, Solitaire 12.9% ★, Card Battler 12.7%, City Builder 11.7%, Management 10.1%

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 28.3%, Roguelite 25.3%, Management 21.8%, Strategy 10.6%, Simulation 5.8%

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 32%, Deckbuilding 19.7%, Roguelite 18.9%, Management 12.3%, Strategy 8.4%

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 51.3%, Hand-drawn 16.1%, Simulation 12.4%, 2D 7.1%, Singleplayer 5.7%

Stack, train and collect 100+ powerful Stackmon in this creature-collector with a card-stacking twist! Build your camp, challenge rival Scouts in combat and face the mysterious corruption spreading throughout your land.

Why similar: Card Game 29.8%, Card Battler 28.1%, Building 10.6%, Management 9.7%, Strategy 6.5%

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 29.7%, Deckbuilding 15.2%, Strategy 12%, Colorful 3.9%

A mini citybuilding roguelike. Place buildings, stack combos, and master deep strategy in short bursts to create a tiny thriving metropolis!

Why similar: City Builder 20.3%, Card Game 17.6%, Card Battler 16.7%, Roguelite 12.2%, Deckbuilding 11.2%

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 23.2%, Deckbuilding 16%, Roguelite 14.5%, Strategy 6.3%

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 30.3%, Card Game 28%, Deckbuilding 15.3%, Roguelite 14.2%, Strategy 4.8%

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 36.7%, Card Game 18.2%, Deckbuilding 17.5%, Roguelite 14%, Strategy 4.7%

A minimalist game about building and defending your little kingdom.

Why similar: City Builder 55.4%, Building 18.8%, Strategy 16.1%, Colorful 4.7%, Fantasy 2.2%

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 36.7%, Roguelite 30.1%, Strategy 11.4%, Cute 8.9%, 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 22.9%, Management 16.5%, Roguelite 11%, Building 8%

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 26.7%, Card Battler 25.3%, Deckbuilding 15.5%, Roguelite 15.3%, Strategy 6.9%

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 17.6%, Card Battler 16%, Solitaire 13% ★, Management 12.6%, Survival 10%

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

Why similar: Card Battler 49.6%, Strategy 25.9%, Hand-drawn 8.4%, Cute 6.1%, 2D 4.5%

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 25.8%, Deckbuilding 16%, Roguelite 14.2%, Strategy 6.8%

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 33.6%, Deckbuilding 15.1%, Roguelite 8.3%, Strategy 4.4%

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 32.5%, Card Game 31.4%, Deckbuilding 17.5%, Roguelite 11.9%, Strategy 5.2%

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 22.6%, Roguelite 21.4%, Card Game 20%, Building 13.2%, Strategy 10.6%

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

Why similar: Card Game 26.7%, Solitaire 21.9% ★, City Builder 15%, Management 14.6%, Tabletop 9.6%

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 29.7%, Deckbuilding 22.4%, Roguelite 17.7%, Strategy 10.8%, Cute 6.1%

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 28.7%, Card Game 25.4%, Deckbuilding 15.7%, Survival 14.4%, Strategy 7.4%

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

Why similar: Card Battler 28.9%, Deckbuilding 20.6%, Roguelite 16.4%, Building 16.2%, Strategy 7.4%

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 48.8%, Deckbuilding 29.8%, Strategy 9.6%, 2D 4.7%, Simulation 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 23.5% ★, Card Battler 21.6%, Card Game 17.1%, Management 13.4%, Survival 10.7%

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 26.1%, Deckbuilding 20.9%, Strategy 8.8%, Cute 4.2%

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 24.2%, Card Game 22.3%, Management 15.9%, Deckbuilding 14.4%, Building 12.4%