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Dice-building dungeon crawler Slice & Dice arrives on Steam with a big updateIt has a demo too
It has a demo too
Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Tann
Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Tann
Slice & Dice 3.0 trailerWatch on YouTube
Slice & Dice 3.0 trailer
One run in Slice & Dice is a series of 20 battles against handfuls of increasingly dangerous baddies. It starts simple. You set out with a random party of five basic heroes, your usual warriors and rangers and paladins and wizards and that. Their different abilities are spread across the faces of dice, and each turn you roll your handful to see which of their actions you can use. A very basic example is the Warden, which has two faces giving 2-damage attacks then four faces giving different amounts of protective shields. Enemy attacks work the same way, and they roll at the start of the turn so you can prepare to counter their moves. Each turn you get two rerolls which reroll as many times as you please. So roll your dice, see what you can do, and make your offensive and defensive plays. Then it grows complicated.
Picking your class level-up |Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Tann
Each character has two item slots that can upgrade, augment, or outright replace dice faces. Perhaps you’ll give a melee class a ranged option or limited healing spell at the cost of two faces, or make one face grow more powerful each time it’s used, or make a cantrip grow stronger every time it’s rolled, or… the most powerful items often have very specific uses, making it very satisfying to puzzle over how best to employ and redeploy your inventory.
Even a weak ranged option can be powerful on a melee-heavy team |Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Tann
It’s a great load of head-scratching, figuring out your party’s builds then how to play each turn. The game generously lets you undo everything except rerolls, even a party member dying to self-inflicted damage, so you have plenty of space to experiment with solutions before committing to your optimal sequence of actions. Every turn is a satisfying little puzzle, growing more complicated and satisfying as you grow stronger and face stronger foes.
Alright! So, that’s the game explained a bit for newcomers, now the newness for veterans. Update 3.0 launched yesterday alongside the Steam release, adding newness including new heroes, items, enemies, ability keywords, and the ability to tweak rules to create custom modes. See thev3.0 patch notesfor more on that.
Slice & Dice is out nowon Steamfor Windows, Mac, and Linux, priced at £7.50/€8.79/$8.99. It’s onAndroidandAppledoodads too. You can still buy iton Itch, though it’s twice as expensive because it offers both PC and Android versions.
