
- 74/100
- Players69 ratings
- 90/100
- Critics3 reviews
More scores
- Metacritic21 critic reviews
- 80/100
- Metacritic usersuser score
- 73/100
- GameFAQsJust Right-Tough
- 3.59/5
- Player reviews
- 88% positive10,483 reviews
- Steam Deck
- Verified
- Runs on
- Windows, Mac, Linux
- Price
- US$14.99
Where to get it

2019 · Terry Cavanagh · Adventure · Board game
Dicey Dungeons
Timed Nintendo exclusive
Fighting against fortune would be a lot easier if you weren't a walking dice.
- Released
- 13 August 2019
- Platforms
- AndroidLinuxNintendo SwitchPlayStation 4PlayStation 5WindowsXbox OneXbox Series X/SiOSmacOS
- Genres
- AdventureBoard gameIndieRoguelikeRoguelike deck-buildingRole-playingStrategy
- Developers
- Terry Cavanagh
- Publishers
- Terry Cavanagh
- Modes
- Single-player
- Perspective
- Side view
- Themes
- FantasyComedy
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Age ratings
- ESRB E10+PEGI 7GRAC 12+CERO AACB PG
- Languages
- Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Dutch, English, English (UK), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish and 5 more
- Time to beat
- 30hmain story35hwith extras39hcompletionist
- Composers
- Chipzel
About
Dicey Dungeons is a roguelike deck-building game developed by Irish game designer Terry Cavanagh. It was released for Microsoft Windows, macOS, and Linux in August 2019, for Nintendo Switch in December 2020, for Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S in November 2021, and for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 in February 2023. Ports for iOS and Android were released in July 2022.
›Story
Chipzel, and Marlowe Dobbe, you'll fight monsters, find better loot, level up your heroes, and maybe even take down the Goddess of Fortune, Lady Luck herself. Balance your carefully planned strategies against the unknown of a dice roll.
Players say
Media
The articlegameplay, story, development, reception
Gameplay
Dicey Dungeons combines elements of roguelike games with deck-building games. The game takes place on a game show-like backdrop, where Lady Luck challenges adventurers, who have been turned into dice, to complete a dungeon with a rather unlikely chance of winning their freedom. The player takes one of six characters, which defines the type of equipment they will start with. The player then moves their character across a dungeon map, where there are various encounters with monsters, treasure chests, health items, shops, and upgrade stations, along with exits to the next level.
The goal of each run is to reach the lowest level of the dungeon and defeat the boss. Doing so unlocks the metagame progression, such as unlocking additional characters, or new episodes for existing characters that introduce new rulesets that make runs more difficult.
Development
Terry Cavanagh announced Dicey Dungeons in May 2018, after about three months of prior development, with an in-progress free version available for users to try up to this point. Cavanagh had planned to produce a commercial version of the game for release later in 2018. Dicey Dungeons is inspired by one of the first roguelike deck-builder games, Dream Quest. The game's art was created by Marlowe Dobbe, while its music was composed by Chipzel and it was written by Holly Gramazio.
Dicey Dungeons was released on 13 August 2019 for Microsoft Windows, macOS, and Linux personal computers, and on 15 December 2020 for Nintendo Switch. The game was ported to Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S by Ratalaika Games, and released on 11 November 2021.
Reception
Dicey Dungeons received "generally favorable" reviews for Windows and Switch according to review aggregator Metacritic; the mobile version received "universal acclaim". Fellow review aggregator OpenCritic assessed that the game received strong approval, being recommended by 87% of critics. The game has been called a good introduction into roguelike deck-building games. The Windows release of the game was among the best-selling new releases of the month on Steam.
Following its initial release exclusive to Bandcamp, game soundtrack record label Materia Collective released the official soundtrack by Chipzel on 20 December 2019.
Releases by platformdates and regions as published
Editions and related releases
- Downloadable content
- Dicey Dungeons ReunionDicey Dungeons: Halloween Special
- Ported as
- Dicey Dungeons+
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