Die in the Dungeon

The mechanics are fine for what they are: slotting dice into a board is a neat idea. I really like the relic/artifact design, there's a ton of design space and they at least touched on all of it. However: * Each run takes way too long. my first two runs were nearly 2 hours long, my third was nearly 3 hours long. Efforts to speed up the game have not helped: battles are just fundamentally too comparatively rewarding to pass up * The base mechanics don't play enough with the physicality of the game board, and jokers can only make up some of the difference. * Some specific enemies will apply tiles or have unique dice, but on the whole the only mechanic you'll consistently interact with that really cares about the dice being slotted into spaces on a board is the boost die. * it has the classic Spirelike problem of demanding you go in with a single build and then executing on said build, rather than adapting your build as the game progresses. * This problem is exacerbated by the dice mechanics being rather shallow, leaving builds on the whole slotting into ideas like "attack" and "block" * By game's end you're skipping like 90% of the battle rewards for more coin. Which, by the way, is a problem Slay the Spire already solved by making post-battle coin rewards not dependent on skipping the card reward Buy it while it's on sale and get a run in with all four characters.

what is this, some kind of Die in the Dungeon?

Overall a great rogue-like, this game has a ton of fun strategies to try out and also offers a nice and increasing challenge throughout its runtime. I'd like to see more characters being added to have more strategies available (maybe someone gold based?) and also some way to make shops more valuable, like adding a re-roll or replacement to the items offered, to give some more control over your build.

Très bon jeux.

Very cool dice roguelike. Higher difficulties are quite fun to play at with the exception of last (dif 8). Probably the most fun is around dif 6 or 7. The characters are a bit unballenced with Nora having unlimited energy with a bit of thinking and deck managment.

This game is cute and has potentially very interesting mechanics! I wish I could get deeper in to them, but the fact that the game only ever refers to a single die as a "dice" and mentions dice near constantly, it is pretty much unplayable. I was hoping this would be fixed in the months since I last played, but maybe one day the developers will get a proper proof reader.