Dicey Dungeons - Review

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What is Dicey Dungeons about?

Welcome to another small jewel that you might have overlooked! It’s Dicey Dungeons! Dicey Dungeons is about the Exploitation of your deepest desires. If you wish too strong, then Lady Luck will come and pull you into her infinite dungeon. She’ll hold your deepest desire dangling before you, but in order to get this price you have to win and succeed on spinning the wheel of fate. Are you going to be strong enough to push through increasing difficulties to win your hearts desire? Then this easy to learn roguelike rpg turn-based jewel is for you:

6 choosable characters (1 secret character)
6 different missions with 2 of them being completely different mechanics for each character
Many different weapons and effects to build your character
Each run you fight 1 out of 8 different bosses

How to play Dicey Dungeons

So in order to win your hearts desire in Dicey Dungeons you have to choose 1 of 6 playable characters. You start your tutorial run with the warrior. Each turn you roll your current available dice. Then with these dice and your equipment you can choose on what to do. In the example above we could either:

Sword: Hit for X Damage
Battle Axe: Hit for 2x Damage, but maximum on 4
Matchstick: Burn an Enemy Dice, but only even numbers allowed
Bump: Increase your rolled value by 1
Combat Skill: Reroll your dice

You can in which order you want to activate your equipment. You lose if your HP reaches 0, and logically you win as soon as the HP of your enemy reaches 0. Besides your equipment each character has a special ability. This ability is recharged by receiving damage. For the warrior the ability is called “Fury”. On activation “Fury” will duplicate the next used equipment. Using it with an battle axe would mean to deal a maximum of 2x2x4 damage, so 16! That most of the time half of the enemies HP 😀

No RPG without shops. Dicey Dungeons has 2 shops and multiple things to pick up:

Shop: 3 available items are for sell
Trading Station: Wants to trade a specific equipment against something new
Anvil: Upgrade one of your equipment. Really useful!
Apple: Heal your health
Blueprint: Copy one of your equipment
Chest: Choose one of the rewards to add to your equipment or backpack

Especially the health is really important. You do get a full heal on level up, but that will not be enough to survive. You really have to manage on when to wait for a level up and when to pick up an apple. Some enemies also have strong points or weaknesses. It might be good to fight Timberman with fire and ice against the Firemen.

As said there are 8 different bosses to fight. You do not get to know which boss you are going to face until you hit the last floor. Hopefully your build is not getting hard countered ;). In our first run we are going to face Beatrice. Beatrice will try to shock our equipment. If shocked, we have to use any dice to reactivate that equipment before we can use it. Other bosses will have different mechanics we have to face. So go and fight them all!

If your run is successful you not only get to spin the wheel and “hopefully” win your prize you also might unlock new missions and characters. On winning with the warrior we do unlock the Thief. the Thief will have more mechanics to play around.

Mission 1 is mostly basic to get to know the character. The other missions will change existing mechanics of enemies, equipment or even how to play your character.

My Conclusion

Dicey Dungeons is a game I really would like to to have played way earlier. Its really fun to play and explore. It is a really good pickup for about 13,00 €. I like it already so much, that I had to play more 😀 so I started a full playthrough on our Twitch stream 😉

Where to buy?

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