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Stacklands

Stacklands

Sokpop Collective · released Apr 7, 2022

CasualIndieSimulationPCNintendo Switch

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!

Steam page ↗Metacritic 84 · users 7.6 ↗
89
VGC Score
■Stablehigh confidence

anchored at patch: “Stacklands v1.4.1.20” (2y ago)

91%
At launch
96%
Steam all-time
84%
Press
70%
Player sentiment
94%
Recent sentiment

Screenshots & trailers

What players say

Why the number is what it is: aspect mentions counted across 297 sampled Steam reviews (275 positive / 22 negative), recent and most-helpful. Plain keyword counting, fully reproducible; nothing here is written by a machine.

What positive reviews talk about

Positive reviews don't converge on specific aspects.

What negative reviews complain about

  • Grind & repetition36% mention it
  • Progression & loot18% mention it
  • Controls & UI14% mention it

Satisfaction by hours played

Same score, different games: see how sentiment holds up the longer people play.

Under 5h

91%

78 reviews

5-15h

90%

121 reviews

15-40h

96%

75 reviews

40-100h

100%

17 reviews

Review sentiment over time

Weekly positive-review rate (green) and review volume (bars). Dashed lines mark significant patches; the amber line is the start of the current scoring window. Hover the dots to see what drove a dip or a jump.

How this score was computed

The VGC Score is a weighted blend on a press-comparable 0-100 quality scale. Steam approval rates are first calibrated (95% positive on Steam ≈ 89.5 quality, since Steam approval skews high). Press and tracked creator reviews each count ~2x a player review and share one cap against player evidence (creator buy/skip calls pool into an approval rate, calibrated like Steam approval); all-time sentiment is capped and halved (it's context, not verdict); reviews of the current build carry the most weight when a fresh patch anchors the window; and a 'typical game' prior keeps small samples from pegging the scale. Because press reviews and Metacritic user aggregates describe the launch build, their weight decays as the game ages (3-year half-life after a 1-year grace). That's how a game that launched rough can outgrow its old reception once updates win players over. Reviews under 2h playtime (the refund window), non-Steam activations, and free copies are downweighted.

ComponentPositiveQuality (0-100)Weight (pseudo-reviews)
Press reviews (Metacritic)–8418
All-time Steam reviews96%911000
Metacritic user ratings––0
Post-patch Steam reviews (trust-weighted)94%893000
Calibration prior (typical game)–7250

Acclaim gate: the raw blend lands at 88.9, but scores above 88 must be earned in front of a mass audience; this verdict rests on 30,236 player reviews, a largely self-selected fanbase. As more players weigh in, the ceiling rises (full scale unlocks at 100,000 reviews).

Scoring window: since the last significant patch (Oct 16, 2023) · 300 reviews sampled · 9727 total reviews in window · weighted 218.8 up / 14.4 down · computed 3h ago · full methodology →

Press & Creators reviews (4)

Individual verdicts from outlets we track: scored reviews first, most trusted outlets first among them. The small badge is each outlet's trust score: how well its scoring history aligns with players.

  • 85
    NintendoWorldReportNintendoWorldReport
    trust 69Jul 15, 2024

    “Certainly, I had a delightful time spinning the different plates of progress and preventative maintenance to build the systems necessary for an expanding world in Stacklands. It has a pleasant and engaging set of systems fueled by deck building that feels complementary, not shoehorned in. Difficulty is reasonable, and provided meaningful experience that informed each future run. Some fiddly controls couldn’t deter my enjoyment, and this’ll stay in my rotation for some time.”

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  • 80
    TouchArcade
    trust 60Apr 9, 2024

    “In its current state, Stacklands is a fantastic game held back by some interface issues on Nintendo Switch. If you have the option to play it with a mouse or touch controls on Steam, I recommend getting it there. The Switch version and the controller support in general for the game need a bit more work for the game to be an easier recommendation. Stacklands has definitely sent me down the Sokpop Collective rabbit hole and I’ve been checking out some of the team’s other games. Hopefully we see some more come to the console soon.”

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  • 80
    Gaming NexusGaming Nexus
    trust 55Apr 25, 2024

    “Stacklands is a really enjoyable game. It combines a clever survival loop of exploration and optimization, it is easy to grasp the core concepts and get your runs moving, and it definitely grabs your attention with the "just one more turn" hallmark of the best of these type of round, time, or turn based games. The only real drawback here is the Switch, or rather how uninterested this game is of making use of what makes the Switch great. It's fine when docked on to your tv or monitor, just as if it were still running on the PC. I'm thankful the developers have brought it over so Switch players can get to play it, I am just recognizing not optimizing it for a 6.2 inch touchscreen is a missed opportunity. ”

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  • 90
    GLHF on Sports Illustrated
    trust 49Apr 12, 2024

    “Stacklands is an excellent little survival card game that’s quite unlike anything else on the market. It’s cute, deeply addictive, and has the potential to take away hours of your life, although its implementation on Switch leaves a lot of room for improvement. Still, if I can spend 40 hours stacking chickens on top of each other to make eggs, then it can’t really be that bad, can it? ”

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Patch history

  1. Stacklands v1.5.0.25
    Nov 21, 2024
  2. Stacklands v1.5.0.24
    Nov 8, 2024
  3. Stackland v1.5.0.23
    Nov 5, 2024
  4. Stacklands v1.5.0.22
    Nov 4, 2024
  5. Stacklands v1.5.0.21
    Nov 1, 2024
  6. Stacklands v1.5.0.20
    Oct 31, 2024
  7. Stacklands v1.5.0.19
    Oct 31, 2024
  8. Stacklands v1.5.0.18
    Oct 30, 2024
  9. Stacklands v1.5.0.17
    Oct 30, 2024
  10. New DLC & free update releasing October 30th!
    Oct 16, 2024
  11. Stacklands v1.4.1.20
    Oct 16, 2023significant · resets scoring window
  12. Stacklands v1.4.1.19
    Sep 5, 2023
  13. Stacklands v1.4.1.18
    Aug 22, 2023
  14. Stacklands v1.4.1.17
    Aug 10, 2023
  15. Stacklands v1.4.1.16 - hotfix
    Aug 8, 2023
  16. Stacklands v1.4.1.15
    Aug 7, 2023
  17. Stacklands v1.4.1.14
    Aug 1, 2023
  18. Stacklands v1.4.1.13
    Jul 31, 2023
  19. Stacklands v1.4.1.12
    Jul 28, 2023
  20. Stacklands v1.4.1.11
    Jul 28, 2023
  21. Stacklands v1.4.1.10
    Jul 27, 2023
  22. Stacklands v1.4.1.9
    Jul 27, 2023
  23. Stacklands v1.4.1.8
    Jul 27, 2023
  24. Stacklands v1.4.1.7
    Jul 26, 2023
  25. Stacklands v1.4.1.6
    Jul 26, 2023
  26. News Update - June 2023
    Jun 13, 2023
  27. Stacklands v1.3.5
    Jan 10, 2023
  28. Stacklands v1.3.4
    Jan 2, 2023
  29. Stacklands v1.3.3
    Dec 20, 2022
  30. Stacklands v1.3.2
    Dec 15, 2022
  31. Order & Structure Update out now!
    Dec 14, 2022significant · resets scoring window
  32. Stacklands v1.2.6
    Nov 21, 2022significant · resets scoring window
  33. Stacklands v1.2.5
    Nov 14, 2022
  34. Stacklands v1.2.4
    Nov 12, 2022
  35. Stacklands v1.2.3
    Nov 11, 2022significant · resets scoring window
  36. Dark Forest Update Out Now!
    Nov 9, 2022significant · resets scoring window
  37. What's next? + Changelog v1.1.6
    Jul 29, 2022significant · resets scoring window
  38. Stacklands v1.1.5
    Jul 19, 2022
  39. Stacklands v1.1.4
    Jul 14, 2022
  40. Stacklands v1.1.3
    Jul 13, 2022

…and 9 earlier patch announcements.