CrafTAE

It's fast paced card crafting - Like stacklands but with proper dungeons. Super fun!

A solid game based on the cards as building/people/resources concept, but has a nice twist in that instead of one long campaign, you have multiple different potential enemy strongholds with some waves to survive, with different difficulties, with the final adding a unique gimmick, and enabling infinite waves. Each stronghold has very different enemies within, ramping to be brutal, and dropping different resources. On top of that, you can choose two starting areas to build your initial resources off of, and these drastically change the playstyle. For example, in the first stronghold, the enemies drop bones, which you can use to make a really nice shield and spear for your squire, but when you face slimes, no bones drop. which means you need some other way to gear your people. Huge bonus points dev actually listens to feedback and responds, and is willing to make improvements.

At first I thought this was a knock-off of "Stacklands", but playing it a deep complexity blossomed with each card. Unlike the aformentioned, Craftae plays much more organically and is much more 'alive' than other card-based City-Builders. Incredible for the humble price.

Really cool survival game! Easily worth the price. You start out with 1 villager, your village and 2 biomes. Everything else you have to build up from that, and defend against waves of monsters coming from a dungeon. A game takes I think 30-120 minutes, but it can vary more, depending on how fast you are. The different biomes give you different resources, while the different dungeons spawn different enemies. The monsters also drop different loot. It's really well done, the QoL is really good. There's a tutorial that you can skip, and there's also helpful contextual hints that you can turn off, so you're never lost, but you can also just discover the game for yourself. The in-game encyclopedia is also really good in this regard: it's totally optional, but it keeps track of recipes and what you discovered. "Limiting" player expansion is also done really well, in a way that makes you think about what to work on and what to delay for later. It's not a hard limit, technically there's nothing stopping you, and sometimes it's actually worth to expand faster, depending on your situation. The difficulty goes higher than I expected, although with experience I think everyone can complete …

Oh my gosh. this game hates me. but It's so fun to play. I finally beat the first goblin camp after like 40 or something hours in game lol Sooooo difficult. I would love to see things a little easier to craft - like, for instance, when you cntl+click on something I'd like to be able to hover over the things you can make and see how to make them at a glance. It's annoying having to go into the craft tab every time, and losin my spot lol good game though. Love love love LOVE this game. Thank you dev. Game hates me, but I love it. I will be playing more. (( received for free <3 Ty ty dev really enjoyed the opportunity to play for free! ))

not every stackland like game has the same quality :/