Planned Release Date: Q1 2027

About This Game

Stack Heroes is a single-player card-stacking survival and management game inspired by Water Margin. Drag and stack cards on a landscape tabletop to gather, cook and build. Start with a campfire and turn a small camp into your own Liangshan stronghold.

Every new companion brings another pair of hands and another mouth to feed. Assign jobs, connect supply routes and make provisions and equipment for expeditions and camp defense. Pause combat at any time to plan movement, focus fire and hold-position orders.

Stack cards. Build your band.

Stack heroes on locations to gather, and combine materials to cook, build and craft equipment. Learn recipes and add facilities to keep food and supplies flowing as your stronghold grows.

Sell surplus goods for coins, then buy card packs to find new locations and recipes. Stock tomorrow's meals, expand the camp or welcome another hero?

Recruit heroes. Put their talents to work. Recruit Water Margin heroes such as Lin Chong, Zhu Gui, Chao Gai and Wu Yong. Put their talents to work and choose their weapons and armor. Who stays to cook, and who joins the next expedition?

Keep supplies moving. Defend your stronghold.

Connect wells, fields, kitchens and storage with transport teams. Let supplies arrive automatically, and plan around the terrain to keep routes short and your growing stronghold supplied.

Pack provisions and arrange your formation, then direct movement, focus fire and hold positions in real-time combat. Pause whenever you need to plan. Defend your camp when enemies come raiding.

From a snowy escape to the convoy heist.

Follow Lin Chong to Liangshan and build a stronghold with Chao Gai. In an optional, separate side story, prepare food and wine for the birthday convoy heist. Chinese-style card art and comic panels connect camp life and battles with Water Margin.

Current development content: a prologue, two main chapters and the optional birthday convoy side story. Each starts a fresh camp; learned recipes carry over within the same profile. The side story is not required to continue the main story.

Download the free demo to try card-stacking management and real-time battles. Wishlist Stack Heroes to follow development and hear about its release.

Gameplay clips come from different development stages and use the Simplified Chinese interface. They include side-by-side edits, sped-up waiting and story excerpts, with prepared camp and battle setups.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

All content in Stack Heroes is generated using AI, including artwork, character and scene illustrations, UI graphics, music, sound effects, story and dialogue, other text, localization, and game program code. This content is generated during development and included in the game. The game does not generate AI content during gameplay or connect to external AI services.