In what has been a long time coming, this week marks the full release of itch.io-favorite Dicey Dungeons . Indie superstar Terry Cavanagh (and team) has turned from puzzles and action to craft what is one of the most accessible routes into two of my favorite but complicated genres: Roguelikes and Deckbuilders. If you know anything about Dicey Dungeons, you probably know that it’s a game entirely governed by dice. No not like craps. Taking the role of sentient dice in a variety of standard fantasy roles players explore, battle, and eventually overcome an entire dice-themed game show of peril and cuteness. It’s a really charming design that both embraces the random nature of dice and smoothes over some of its more frustrating aspects. For the uninitiated, Roguelikes can be an intimidati…
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