The Understack Society

The Understack Society — a lantern-bearing rabbit citizen and a small horned companion stand beside a stack of resource cards beneath the game's title

Stack cards to gather food, craft equipment and build a home for a society of misfits. Trade spare cards for brass and buy mysterious parcels. Recruit unique citizens, keep them fed and defend your growing settlement as the nights grow more dangerous. Something far worse is waiting beyond the gate.

Releasing 21 Jan 2027 Follow development

About the game

Build a society from the cards you’re dealt

The Understack Society is a card-based survival game where you stack cards to gather supplies, build structures and keep your citizens alive.

Drag a citizen onto a Bramble Patch to gather food. Combine people, resources and ideas to discover new recipes, improve your settlement and prepare for the next night.

The Courtyard on night 10, with resource cards spread across the table and the Moonlight Shop open below

The Understack Society poster — a lantern-bearing rabbit citizen and a horned companion stand beside a stack of resource cards beneath the game's title

The society

Misfits first

Every run starts with a handful of citizens and a stack of cards. Recruit unique characters into the Understack, put them to work and keep them fed as the settlement grows around them.

Trade spare cards for brass, open mysterious parcels and craft the equipment your citizens need — then arm them for the nights ahead, because something far worse is waiting beyond the gate.

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See the society in motion

A growing collection

Every card has a purpose

Gather, craft, trade and explore your way through a compact survival adventure filled with discoveries.

250+

cards to collect

164

crafting combinations

80+

journal quests

Moon Shop parcels

4–8

hours of playtime

The Moon Shop

Turn spare cards into new possibilities

Sell for brass

Trade spare cards for brass, the currency that keeps your society moving forward.

Buy parcels

Spend brass at the Moon Shop on mysterious parcels focused on crafting, farming or building.

Expand the stack

Open each parcel to discover a random assortment of cards and fresh ways to grow.

The Courtyard on night 8, with livestock, crops and an armed Grimble ready to defend the settlement

Survive the night

Feed them. Arm them. Keep them alive.

At the end of every night, each citizen needs food. Plan your harvest carefully, because an empty larder puts the whole society at risk.

Goblins, imps, bears, rats and other creatures will attack. Equip your citizens with armour and weapons, team them up and always be ready for a fight.

Build new things

Experiment, discover and expand

Develop new buildings and structures through more than 164 crafting combinations. The recipe journal helps you turn your discoveries into a thriving home — combine resources such as stone and salvaged timber with a citizen to construct new places to work and store supplies.

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