Our story
It all started because of rain.
One rained-out IPL night, two bored friend groups, and a very annoying realisation.
The night nothing was on
Picture it: a lazy weekend, a few corporate types, a few drinks, and an IPL match on the telly. Then the rain rolled in, the covers came on, and the match... didn’t. Suddenly a room full of grown adults had absolutely nothing to do.
“Let’s play UNO,” someone said. “UNO’s boring, we’ve played it a thousand times,” someone shot back. So out came Monopoly Deal instead. And that was that.
Then it hit us. Those are the only two card games anyone in India actually knows. UNO and Monopoly Deal. After that, it’s a regular deck of playing cards, or a board game that eats an hour just setting up.
India has basically two famous card games. We thought that was a bit tragic.
So we did something stupid and wonderful
Most people would have ordered food and moved on. Instead, our founder went home and decided to start a card games company. As you do.
No factory. No team. No clue. Just a stubborn idea. He ideated, designed and printed prototypes of three games completely on his own, Primal Rift, Quizzo and Stacky.
Then came the testing. Group after group. Drinks and snacks, shouting and plotting, laughing and a whole lot of “okay, one more round.” We tweaked, we re-printed, we tested again.
“Stacky is going to break the internet.”
Every single group we tested. Not one negative review.
Wait, what’s a Deckstro?
Deckstro
“Deck” is the obvious half. “stro” we borrowed from Maestro, an operator in Rainbow Six Siege, because our founder is a massive fan. Fair warning: there will be more Rainbow Six references. We’re not sorry.
Stacky
Simple, catchy, and it literally tells you the game, stack animals, crops and tickets to win. No 30-page rulebook required.
What we actually believe
More than two games
India deserves more than UNO and Monopoly Deal. We are here to give you a shelf full of games worth fighting over.
Make the room go loud
Every game we make has one job: turn a quiet room into a screaming, plotting, laughing one. If it does not, it is not a Deckstro game.
Built by hand, in India
Ideated, tested and made in Hyderabad, one genuinely great game at a time. No shortcuts, no filler.
We’re just getting started.
Stacky is game one. A lot more are coming, some loud, some chaotic, some for the whole family. One day, when we drop something new, we want you to say: “it’s Deckstro, we have to try it.”
Start the chaos