Stacked Realms

Stacked Realms is a strategic card-stacking survival game where 🃏 entire worlds are built one card at a time.

Every resource, structure, creature, and encounter exists as a card  and how you stack them defines your fate.

You begin with a small foothold in a living realm 🌱. By dragging village and structure cards onto resource cards, you gather materials, unlock crafting recipes 📜, and grow your settlement.
But be careful ⚠️  the wrong stack can waste resources, trigger dangerous encounters, or leave your people unprepared for the next day.

🧱 Core Gameplay Pillars

🃏 Card Stacking as Strategy

Stacking isn’t cosmetic  it is the game.

Cards interact based on their type and context, allowing you to:

• 🌲 Gather resources by stacking villages on natural cards

• 🏠 Build structures that enhance nearby stacks

• ❗ Trigger events, encounters, or crafting chains through placement alone

Mastery comes from learning what stacks work — and why.

⏰ Day Cycle & Survival Loop

Each day follows a clear and satisfying rhythm:

• 🍞 Survival & Feeding  Keep your people alive

• 📦 Management & Selling  Organize, trade, and prepare

• ⚔️ Encounters  Face creatures, events, and surprises

• 🌅 New Day  Unlock new cards and push the world forward

⏳ The pressure to plan ahead keeps every decision meaningful without overwhelming you.

🧪 Crafting Through Discovery

Crafting is woven directly into stacking.

Certain card combinations, when stacked correctly over time ⌛, unlock new recipes:

• 🛠️ Buildings

• 🍲 Food

• ⚙️ Advanced resources

✨ Recipes aren’t simply given  they are discovered, recorded, and remembered as part of your growing knowledge of the realm.

⚔️ Encounters & Tactical Combat

Not every stack is safe.

👹 Some attract creatures, enemies, or unexpected events.
Combat is tactical and fast-paced, built around a rock-paper-scissors system enhanced with:

• 🎯 Ranged attacks

• 🔮 Magic effects

• 💥 Clear visual feedback

Preparation and positioning often matter more than raw power.

📜 Quests & Progression

Progression is guided by structured quests that encourage you to:

• 🧭 Explore new realms and biomes

• 📆 Survive deeper into the day cycle

• 🏗️ Craft advanced structures and tools

🎁 Completing quests unlocks new cards, mechanics, and paths forward  steadily expanding the game’s depth.

🌌 Living Realms

Each realm introduces new rules, resources, and dangers.

🔥 What works in one realm may completely fail in another, forcing you to adapt, experiment, and rethink your stacking strategies.