Dicevaders

Cool game, I like that it is forcing you to use what you get instead of rolling for what you want. The game doesn't expect you to go infinite with some meta build and really encourages pivoting, even mentioning it ingame in the guide. There was almost never a moment where I was upset at the rng. There is definitely some balance stuff to tune, but nothing too big. I have to say that the final challenge is pretty brutal. I am not sure if it's reliably beatable with all heroes. Also once you start going seriously for endless, you can spend more time watching animations or rolling the shop than playing by order of magnitude. The game also enforces your runs being different when you get to challenges by enabling up to 3 constellations depending on your progress. They change units by giving them additional/different effects but making them rarer or give you sets of 3 themed artifacts. One annoyance is that it's hard if not impossible to track single specific interactions. For example I still don't know if retriggers work on token units since they die as part of their trigger. Animation looks like it does by playing it again, but text says it shouldn't according to their own documentation. It is similar to Balatro in a way, but there's more focus on overcoming obstacles rather than minmaxing and hoping for the best. The equivalent of boss blinds can really screw you if you're not prepared and you need to manage your resources well. Rerolls work both ingame and in the shop so if you reroll too much in one, you can't use it in the other. Same thing with money, it does not save up and any unspent money converts to mini dice. Short vs long term gain decisions. Budges only work to modify the dices up/down but they also are a resource for triggers that help you score or scale. I currently beat all challenges with achievements, but I saw that there's a checkbox of getting to level 8 of endless mode and there's one artifact I haven't unlocked. I also have some unlocks missing from heroes so there's still some content for me to unlock. You can estimate my time of review as amount of gametime to do almost all content. There's definitely replayability with the constellations and two daily challenges and I will probably boot it up from time to time. Great sound design, UI, Art and mechanics and big props for having good ingame documentation/guide. Really well made game and shows quality in all aspects once you start looking close.