'Just a Die' Rolls Dice to Battle Board Game Baddies

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Only a Die gives you with a singular weapon for each aspect of your dicey hero, letting you roll to battle towards board recreation enemies.

A die has many sides and every can be utilized otherwise. On this recreation, you battle your method via randomly generated flooring crammed with elements of varied board video games. Nevertheless, your die does have a trick up its sleeve. Either side can have a distinct weapon connected to it, permitting you to roll your self when the ammo is out on that aspect or when it is advisable sprint so you may make use of the brand new weapon on the subsequent aspect.

This recreation might look very colourful and playful, nevertheless it does pack a problem. The rooms themselves are full of various board recreation items, all with their very own weapons who're able to assault you. To arrange for the onslaught, you'll be able to use completely different weapons and fix them to particular sides. These weapons can combo collectively, creating robust sides of your die, however you'll nonetheless must roll to that aspect so as to use it.

There are a variety of completely different mixtures that may be created along with your die to raised match your playstyle. You aren’t going to possible be capable to make the entire sides the identical (and why would you?), so there are a variety of variations within the sides that you just would possibly find yourself touchdown on. Additionally, you'll be able to usually get new passive impact playing cards so as to add on the finish of your spherical to change how your weapons work. There are some stats on the backside of every weapon slot to raised assist you perceive how you're altering these with playing cards, and playing cards may be swapped about everytime you need, which is sweet.

Only a Die feels very quick and frantic, however enjoyable! I acquired to play a brief demo on the European Recreation Showcase the place the developer spoke all about their inspirations and guided me via altering my die.

Only a Die is at the moment in improvement, however within the meantime, you'll be able to add it to your Steam Wishlist.

About The Creator Jupiter Hadley

Jupiter is a prolific indie recreation journalist, writing for Metro UK, Massive Boss Battle, AlphaBetaGamer, and plenty of extra, all with a concentrate on smaller indie gems. She covers hundreds of recreation jams and indie video games on her YouTube channel, letting each recreation have a second within the highlight. She runs indiegamejams.com, a calendar of the entire recreation jams occurring on this planet, judges many jams and occasions.