Dice Legends

I want to love this game but it is just so poorly balanced and the enemies, especially bosses, feel like they've got barely any thought put into it. An infinitely scaling boss (last human) means a character that absolutely rolls through the content before him and can seemingly do well against the boss initially quite literally has no chance to defeat him because the damage negation, blocking and healing ramps up so quickly. Lots of cards that are not useful, stats that barely affect the run. Equipment is fun, but seems more powerful than anything else. I love the art and mood. I REALLY love the base mechanic idea of how you draw cards and put dice into them. This game has all the elements that could make it an all time banger but it just falls short because of the lackluster characters and the poor balance. It just doesn't FEEL good. I'll play the game again in a few months and update my review if it feels better.

In short, bad UI design and bugs ruins the experience. For UI, 1. You can't preview cards upgrade, and cards in this game have two upgrade version, which makes it even worse whenever you see a new card. 2. Despite the whole relic system revolves around the character having "Head", "Ring", "Weapon" etc. as equipment, there is no tags or description that tells you what type of relic that gets offered as reward. So you have to guess if a new equipment would replace your existing one just by guessing. They "usually" have similar shape for each type but why the puzzle when dev could just put a tag on, and sometimes a equipment could looks like it could fits in any slot. 3. Right clicking on a card reward in most games gives you details or the upgrade version, but in this game it would just assumes you want that card. Now you can't get it out of your deck anymore, nice. For bugs, 1. If you check map while choosing an elite fight reward, you lose the reward and goes straight into map. 2. If you start a new run without entering the map, the next time you continue the run you will start the run with 0 stat bonus. At this point, I simply can't persuade myself playing and discover more blind spots and bugs, most would be a simple fix if there is some kind of playtesting but yet it's not fixed or even noticed by the devs. The overall gameplay has it's potential. It's dicey dungeon + STS after all, how bad could it be with a solid baseline? Apparently pretty bad.

I'd like to tell you how cool this game is, but I can't. The *save* functionality doesn't work. It resets progress or corrupts the character in some way. This is unacceptable for a roguelike, especially when you consider a traditional roguelike (which are from last century) support saving and loading correctly.

Dice Legends takes the familiar foundations of a roguelike deckbuilder and gives them a clever identity by making dice just as important as the cards themselves. Rather than simply drawing a hand and spending a conventional energy resource, every turn requires rolling dice and deciding how their values should be assigned to available cards. This creates a satisfying mixture of planning, probability, and adaptation. Big Bite Games and Ad Luna are credited as the developers, with Ad Luna and Big Bite Games handling publishing duties. The concept sounds heavily dependent on luck at first, but the deeper mechanics are built around controlling randomness rather than merely accepting whatever the dice provide. Each turn begins with a pool of dice alongside cards drawn from the player's deck. Dice are then allocated to activate attacks, defensive abilities, debuffs, and more elaborate combinations. A poor roll can complicate an otherwise promising turn, yet equipment, power-ups, and card interactions provide ways to manipulate outcomes. This makes effective deck construction about more than collecting individually powerful cards. A strong build needs cards that cooperate with the hero's dice and equipment, allowing undesirable results to remain useful while making favorable rolls considerably more powerful. Finding a combination that turns several modest actions into an overwhelming sequence is easily one of the most rewarding aspects of the combat. The three playable heroes offer genuinely different approaches instead of functioning as minor variations of the same character. Arie is a Lion Paladin associated with d6 dice, specializing in powerful attacks and protective shields. Kuro is a Crow Demon Summoner using d12 dice and can bring familiars into battle, resulting in a more unusual style built around summoned assistance. Xin is a Toad Assassin who relies on d8 dice, shadow abilities, damage over time, and potentially enormous critical strikes. Because each hero uses a different type of die and has distinct deck-building mechanics, switching characters requires reconsidering which values, cards, and equipment combinations are desirable. Progression reinforces the experimental nature of the combat. Defeated monsters provide new cards that can reshape the direction of a run, while successfully completing locations rewards equipment such as weapons, armor, and accessories. With 160 hand-drawn cards and more than 75 items advertised, there is substantial room to search for unusual synergies. The best moments come when equipment and cards stop feeling like separate upgrades and instead become interconnected pieces of a larger strategy. Random acquisition naturally means that not every run develops equally well, but improvising around what is available is fundamental to the roguelike structure. Enemy encounters provide enough variety to encourage more than relentless offensive play. More than 50 enemies are spread throughout four visually distinct worlds, with different abilities requiring players to reconsider their priorities. Sometimes immediate damage is the sensible choice, while other situations encourage shielding, weakening an opponent, establishing damage-over-time effects, or preparing a stronger future turn. Since combat is turn-based, there is ample opportunity to examine the hand and available dice before committing to a sequence. This deliberate pacing suits the mechanics particularly well and rewards players who enjoy solving tactical problems. Exploration is presented through a world shaped by a magical catastrophe that transformed humans into frightening beasts. Players choose destinations while searching for clues surrounding the Last Human, a mysterious mage connected to the world's transformation. The premise gives purpose to the repeated encounters and progression without overwhelming the mechanical focus. The narrative concept from Rafał Jaki brings additional character to the setting, while the hand-drawn presentation helps the heroes, cards, creatures, and environments maintain a distinct fantasy personality. LouisF's original musical score is another notable part of the presentation and complements the methodical rhythm of the adventure. The main limitation is inseparable from the game's greatest strength. Dice introduce unpredictability, and even a carefully assembled strategy can occasionally be disrupted by inconvenient results. Players who dislike significant random elements in tactical games may find this frustrating. However, treating dice manipulation as part of deck building substantially reduces the feeling that victory is determined purely by chance. Learning to construct a flexible setup that can survive imperfect rolls becomes an important skill, and that progression in player knowledge provides much of the long-term satisfaction. Steam Deck compatibility is encouraging for portable play. The game is rated Playable rather than fully Verified. Its default graphics configuration performs well on the handheld, it runs successfully through SteamOS, and all functionality is accessible with the default controller configuration. The compromises are relatively minor but worth knowing: some text may appear small on the Deck's display, and the game can occasionally show mouse, keyboard, or non-Steam-Deck controller icons. Given its turn-based structure, it remains a particularly suitable style of game for shorter handheld sessions despite those interface imperfections. Overall, this is a thoughtful variation on the increasingly crowded roguelike deckbuilding genre. The interaction between cards, equipment, character mechanics, and different dice types gives battles a distinctive tactical flavor, while the three heroes provide enough mechanical contrast to make experimentation worthwhile. Randomness can occasionally produce frustrating situations, but the ability to manipulate and plan around probability prevents luck from completely dominating the experience. Its strongest achievement is making every die roll into a tactical problem rather than simply a random number. For players who enjoy deck construction, turn-based decision-making, discovering powerful synergies, and adapting strategies when plans go wrong, it offers an engaging and intelligently designed challenge. Rating: 8/10

I would give this a "meh" if I could. It isn't a bad game, but the gameplay is pretty limited and I had a pretty easy time going through it and finishing the game in the first few runs. Just felt... limited. YMMV - not a bad game. I like the dice mechanics. Maybe with some more content it would feel worth.

I don't know how I didn't notice this game before, as I adore card games in this style. It's a really cool story setting, I really liked the action game itself, the effects, and the fact that the game added a damage marker for enemies. separately, I want to say for the excellent pumping system as in RPGs, the difficulty levels do not increase dramatically

a very cool card game, with its own leveling, great animations and effects. most of all, I liked the very design style of the game, the mythological creatures and how the dialogues are staged, so that we can always choose the option we need when answering

It's a really cool game that's not just a Slay the Spire clone. Besides building your deck, you also build your character. You get gear to equip, and 3 stats that you can min/max over the course of a run. For these reasons and more, it offers more flexibility than most in this genre. The pixel art, animations, and sound effects are excellent. AND it features tabletop dice style stat checks which I always love to see. I'm not sure why more people aren't talking about this game. It's exactly what I was hoping for. It does have a few glitches related to save scumming, but they're easy enough to avoid.