What's worse than fighting one human-sized bird with sunglasses? Fighting two human-sized birds with sunglasses. That wasn't a usual problem in my everyday life until I started playing Stack Order's demo, the hand-drawn deckbuilder that's full of duels and fantastic combos.

The run began with my masked character locked away in a jail cell, not all that dissimilar to how I start most of my days. However, this time I was promptly freed by a stranger who wanted to help out. After handing me a deck of cards and talking me through how to use it, I was left to go on my merry way. The only problem was that I didn't get very far before a knight called Robert, who was very unhappy to see me out of my cell, butted in.

I've played my fair share of deckbuilders so it wasn't exactly a steep learning curve. But unlike some other games, Stack Order puts a very strong emphasis on stacking cards. You need to lose the bad habit of just playing one card at a time and instead start stacking cards at the first chance you get.

But, crucially, stacking cards doesn't necessarily mean you have to use them, you could get everything ready and then forfeit your go or just use a throwaway attack. Most killing blows in Stack Order come down all at once after you've stacked several cards all with varying multipliers and unleash it all at once.

Certain cards, for example, deal extra damage if they come before or after cards, others add damage to specific cards if they're stacked below them.

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