Dice & Fold

This review is especially made for those who like to get all the achievements in games. Dice & Fold is a roguelike dice game where you battle groups of enemies with lots of different types of heroes, each one with a specific ability. The game doesn’t have a story mode, but has lots of relics to unlock and five difficulty levels to choose from. Overall the game looks great and the monster and hero designs are cartoonish but very well made, with a particular aesthetic that reminds me of Wildermyth. On the other hand the background of each battle is always the same one and there the animations are quite simple. Unlike some other dice games, it doesn’t imitate card games where you score by making combinations of dice, instead it has a system that mixes exact dice faces with total value of the dice and each monster and boss have a different combination of numbers and/or faces. The system is also used for the Heroes abilities and the face ones in particular in a sort of side quest of having them to farm gold coins to spend in the shops. Besides the scoring/battling system, the dice can also have different colors with different effects: red to heal, orange to weaken, grey to add armor,…

game frequently feels unfair in a matter of balance and enemies spawning

Fairly easy game once you get the hang of it, but a nice time waster. Too many "classes" tied to individual achievements for my liking, and the Extreme difficulty depends on way too much RNG which feels like you're wasting time if the first few turns don't go exactly right, which is a bit frustrating.

Interesting idea with a good art style and accessibility options are available which is a plus for me, but the gameplay is very frustrating. More luck than strategy it feels, and its very easy for enemies to completely overpower you not far in to the run with insane dice requirements and numbers which is not a fun way to lose. And there's not much you can do about it unless the stars align. Many enemies require exact values to be killed and if you don't have them you have to hope for RNG. To mitigate the RNG you can bank dice to save for later but there is a wide variety of enemies with different requirements to defeat. And the game provides no information as to which of those enemies you might face in the next stage so it's mostly guess-work. Guess wrong and you're SOL. You're hero ability may or may not save you but they usually also require strict dice requirements. Using them to get extra rolls also feels frustrating because if you roll enough times the dungeon master appears and starts hitting you. Getting punished by poor rolls is bad enough. But then you end up getting punished even more for using the very mechanic that was supposed to be there to help overcome the bad RN…

Fun game but unplayable controls on steam deck

Wonderful Rouge-like game. I do not usually play Rouge-likes, but this one is calming and amazing. Hope the Dev's continue to add more DLC.