Stacklands

This is one of those card games where you look up and the hours have flown by. It's a simple concept of using your villager cards to harvest, craft, and fight. As you continue to unlock more cards and have places to explore it becomes a balancing act of maintaining enough food output, having a strong enough standing army, and continuing to unlock new 'idea's aka cards. For the most part, it is a fantastic system. There are a couple of things that I feel that could have been done better. After defeating the first boss, you need to build a boat and sail to an island in order to continue the game. This more or less resets the game as you forced to rebuild your 'village' from scratch using new but similar resources. To be honest I feel like it would have been more fun if you could have played both the island and mainland together. Later on once you have built enough on the island you can build a bigger boat to bring more villagers over, but it would have been nice to have some sort of trade system between the two locations. It just feels like the synergy between the two locations could have been done better. I also feel like some of the systems were not explained that well or at all. I did not learn how important the university was in unlocking new cards until I had already progressed so far into the game that the unlocks were largely moot. I also feel like the road system wasn't explained well at all either and ended up not using it once during my entire playthrough. I'm also not sure just how much replayability there is to it. Overall this game is a fun short blast of a game and I think it's a steal when it is on sale. 8.0/10.0