Really good dice game. There is a surprising amount of depth / decisions to be made in the moment to moment gameplay. Items and classes feel meaningful. Art style is unique and endearing. Hard difficulty is sufficiently punishing and there's 2 more modes to be unlocked later on above that so excited to see those.

Since there are so many characters and trinkets, you always feel like you got something new to look forward to after every win.

Probably don't see this being a game you could sink 100s upon 100s of hours into, but it's nonetheless great.

Its a simple game that is for sure. It has a few bugs that you can exploit to make a run successful and it can spoil a bit of the fun since of course (basically if you save a combat and immediately resume the game you regenerate life (provided you have such an item), roll new dice which can, for example, be red dice, heal and then repeat before even throwing the first attack, you can use this method to re-roll dice, etc. Of course this is entirely optional and it is completely up to you to "cheat" or not but I find such a thing existing almost one year after the initial release to be an evidence of lack of "polishing".

Now, for the positives? There are several. There is a huge variety of characters, the items are also many, runs are short and fast paced, art is cute and pretty...Basically I see myself coming back to play this game much more often than I initially expected I would. It truly is a little gem of a game.

In light of better options, i recommend skipping this game. Here's why:

It's sorely lacking in polish and communicating game mechanics and generally being understandable as to what works how. A few examples.
- "bosses" are not "enemies", but they can also not be "the first attacker" (makes no sense)
- "silencing" an enemy apparently means "putting him to sleep for a turn"
- "three different colored dice" apparently means "three differentLY colored dice"
...and a whole bunch of other really unprecise, unintuitive or simply wrong wording i've found in the first few hours with the game
- the game crashed right before i won my first round
- one enemy kind of semi-phased out (the card remained, but the enemy never interacted - except it was somehow more finnicky difficult to place dice on enemies that were now ON the other card)
etc. etc. etc. .... it's just really not a clean experience.

What to play instead:

- If you're a seasoned turn-based roguelike deckbuilder player, avoid this. It doesn't have any depth in strategies and will not satisfy you (on top of the reasons listed before). Instead play Slay the Spire, Monster Train or Beneath Oresa. If it doesn't have to be cards and can be something positionally interesting swing by Trials of Fire.
- If you're somewhat experienced and feel happy with some more middle of the road challenge, check out Ring of Pain. After that go for Power Chord and maybe Circadian Dice.
- If you're rather new or just don't wanna think too hard and roll some dice for fun, play Dicey Dungeons. That one's plenty fun and it's actually polished. Tiny bit more expensive, but it's just 2 bucks difference with a good sale.