Stacklands

IJUST LIKED IT

Juego muy adictivo de gestión, con una interfaz muy original a base de cartas. Está bien chulo y da muchas horas de diversión.

Played as part of the Gameclub of our discord group. So this one was quite a divisive entry, with playtimes ranging from just a couple hours right through to (stubbornly) over 20. The feel of moving cards around and the sound and effects of doing so are very satisfying, at least at the beginning. A common experience was frustration dealing with cards moving around on their own, and insufficient tools to deal with them. It's definitely worth a couple hours, but there's a pile of mechanics and interesting systems that the game does not incentivise using or explain basically at all. Controller support was not very effective for one of our members, with a lot of the ui inaccessible (tooltips) The recipe system is a bit arbitrary perhaps, with building recipes being locked behind using a bloated menu, and opening tons of packs. A bunch of the mechanics are unnecessary or poorly incentivised, and there is not a lot of driving force to expand your population or production. A lot of the difficulty is therefore easily avoided. Overall, despite the negative tone, I think this game does what it's trying to do very capably, and is therefore quite an easy recommend for a more casual audience. Some of our group, used to more data-driven and demanding optimisation games found the experience more frustrating than hoped. 7/10, well worth a couple hours exploration of the experience, see if it hits the spot for you.