Cats & Dice

This is a really fun take on the Balatro formula! What is there right now is fun and there is room for improvement but for the current asking price of $8 you get your moneys worth I feel. Works great on Steamdeck just missing button prompts

this is my favorite game i told all my friends to buy it and they're buying it

Cats & Dice, developed and published by Yongjustyong, is a charming and strategic roguelike that manages to blend whimsical aesthetics with surprisingly deep dice-based mechanics. It takes the familiar thrill of roguelite deck-builders and fuses it with dice rolling, transforming luck into a tactical playground. At first glance, its premise seems simple—you collect cats, customize dice, and chase high scores—but within minutes it reveals a layered system of risk and reward that constantly tempts players to push for just one more roll. It’s a game that looks cute enough to disarm you, but beneath its soft exterior lies an addictive cycle of planning, probability management, and the pursuit of perfect synergy. Each run in Cats & Dice begins with the selection of several cat statues, each representing a unique ability or modifier. These cats determine your starting dice and the way your rolls will interact with various systems. As the game progresses, you acquire items that alter your dice faces, manipulate rerolls, or trigger chain effects when certain numbers or symbols align. What sets the game apart from other dice roguelikes is the flexibility of its buildcrafting. You’re not si…

Balatro but worse

its just kind of generally bad. most of the cats dont really do anything that works towards anything, a whole archetype of play is actively incompatible with the point of the game, most of the few things that do work are only good in very specific scenarios, the game can very easily be bugged to stop players from unlocking higher difficulties and it's barely fun. the idea of getting sub modifiers to attatch to the primary modifiers is a great idea in a vacuum, but the execution is boring, swingy and also still broken a year after release.

The bane (& boon) of my existence