Dice? Cards? I usually really feel Terry Cavanagh’s fairly good little puzzler Dicey Dungeons may’ve simply been a board game. Thankfully, it’s a videogame, which means steadiness modifications and new challenges don’t require sourcing a printer to obtain pages and pages of errata.
All you could come up with at the moment’s 1.5 replace, the “biggest since launch”, is a few minutes of web entry, and voila! New bonus guidelines, tweaked eliminations and a number of heartbreaking new spells for essentially the most enchanting cuboid this facet of the tabletop are all yours.
Dicey Dungeons’s Witch is about to get slightly bit extra depraved. Among a platter of smaller tweaks, she will now choose up quite a few spells that may apply Weaken to her foes. Winning or dropping on the energy of her spellbook, the Witch can also be getting an additional cube drop at degree four to assist her fiddle with extra arcane shenanigans.
Today’s replace additionally rerolls steadiness on Elimination Rounds. These mid-game episodes are supposed to be difficult assessments in your builds, nevertheless it appears like folks had been having a rotten time bashing their heads towards buffed-up baddies. To compensate, Terry’s tuned again the enemy gear boosts, whereas completely redesigning opponents like Aoife, Wicker Man and Sneezy.
Late-game bonus rounds acquired some love too, with seven new guidelines have been added to the spherical’s bag of tips. There’s been a little bit of extra tweaking on high of that, making certain distribution of wacky guidelines really feel extra fascinating.
Dicey Dungeons is hard stuff, intentionally so. These modifications may scale issues again a tad, however a lot as wanted to clean out among the game’s more durable problem spikes. Brendy wished the game was slightly easier-going again in his Dicey Dungeons review, however in any other case had a grand previous time turning right into a wizard-terrorising bear.
Today’s replace drops for each Steam and Itch.io dungeoneers. See the patch notes for extra particulars. Cavanagh additionally teased future developments for Dicey Dungeons, together with improved mod help and two fully new baddies.
