Review: Dicey Dungeons (Steam)

Fighting against fortune would be a lot easier if you weren’t a walking dice.

Pros:

• 633mb download size.
• Beautiful graphics.
• Tutorial and help throughout.
• Challenges-act like the games own achievement system.
• Animation speed slider.
• Deck and dice roguelike game.
• Gameplay-fight enemies and level up, beat the dungeon boss to win.
• Combat-dice rolls dictate what actions you can do, each card has an action number, match it with dice to play.
• Six total characters-each has unique abilities that affect gameplay greatly. The difficulty rating for each gives you a heads up. Unlock episodes for each seperate characters.
• Earn EXP, level up and earn extra health and maybe a choice of card reward.
• The level map allows you to pick your route.
• Equipment (cards) fit into your grid and as each card is a different size, you can get your Tetris on.
• Really easy to pick up and play.
• Simple to learn.
• Full health top up after level up.
• Upgrade cards to increase the power or it might shrink their size allowing more room in your grid.
• Randomized levels.
• Controls can be just the mouse.
• Silky smooth.
• Earn gold and spend in shops for new cards or upgrades.
• Status effects in play like poison, ice, blind, etc.
• Episodes-special objectives with its own set of rules.
• RNG.
• One more go mentality.
• Humourous story/exchanges.
• Game show presentation.

Cons:

• Minimal graphics options as you only get wi sowed or fullscreen.
• No steam achievements.
• RNG.