astragali

Over all a pretty fun one time play. For the dev: recycle is way too busted, +2 AND a reroll? it should just plainly be a +1 and return to your hand. (I literally rolled 66 points with a recycle d6 at match 20, completely sealing the entire match, how anti climactic...) The fact that you hold 7 but only throw 5 makes it so if you get 2 ♥♥♥♥♥♥ overseer dice you can just repeat the same cycle every game: recycle after recycle and you stack it up to infinity. After about match 10, the game becomes completely stale and rather one sided. IMO graveyard and loaded the only 2 quirks that actually seem well balanced and overall a neat idea. All the rest are either completely inferiour or superiour, never in between. The first AI seems just as dumb as the last one. None of them utilize the "reroll enemy's dice" mechanic and they all seem to want to actively throw their dice down the board on the bottom edge.... I guess to make the match more interesting? I really don't know. After the first 3 times it happens, it really becomes just an annoyance. Otherwise, it was quite fun, I'd recommend.

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this game is honestly sick - the vibe - its got the sauce. it played nice on steam deck and i honestly like how cold and aggressive it is. it doesnt hold your hand and closing the entire game when you lose a run honestly pisses you off but also feels right

This game is amazingly fun. I found it randomly when searching for free games and decided to give it a try. The core design of the game is solid and the upgrade system feels fun to interact with as a player. The diversity in methods of winning is acceptable I think. Recycle + gravedigger seems to be very powerful, but investment and bloom seem to be around the same level of capability. In the end, I don't really think the balance of the upgrades matters too much to this game as even the (in my opinion) underpowered ones are fun to use and experiment with. Eventually I found myself feeling stagnated in terms of being challenged by the difficulty. It would have been better feeling to me personally if the later rounds' difficulty scaled more steeply, but the stagnation in difficulty probably is a part of the story the game is telling so it's not that big of a deal. One more small thing is sometimes, when hovering over dice to read their upgrades, text can get cut off by the edge of the screen making it hard to read everything the dice has. Overall though, this game is fantastic, especially for being free, and is smartly designed to be fun all the way through.

Great game, delivers on what it promises, and an amazing time killer. Only complaint is that graveyard + recycle dice combo is absurdly busted.

A fun dice game where you take the loser's dice when you win, and all the dice can have fun and interesting effects. The style is interesting and the gameplay is quick yet engaging-- though the game does close when you lose, which is only really funny the first 5 times if you're trying to stream it to friends.

THAT HORSE IS SEXY