As I used to be lurching round my neighbourhood, dressed like a scary ballot tax collector, I banged on a door and readied myself for my conventional Halloween scare-a-thon. To my shock, it was Terry Cavanagh’s mansion. He gave me a hearty giggle and tipped a brand new Halloween-themed Dicey Dungeons replace into my plastic pumpkin. His cute deckbuilding roguelike is now 100% extra Halloweeny for the subsequent week, all totally free! Let’s see what he gave me, lets?
The replace provides new episodes for the Warrior, the Witch, and the Inventor characters. The Warrior’s episode is a reasonably regular problem, however with a couple of Halloween twists which can be secret (i.e. not within the press launch). The Inventor’s new mode will begin them off with “all-round extremely terrible equipment”. The Witch’s episode is six puzzles lengthy, with set spells and cube, and also you solely have a single flip to beat every enemy. Thrown into the fights by Lady Luck herself are the Mummy, Demon, and Pumpkin Spice baddies, and the earlier monsters are all in lovable outfits. There’s additionally a brand new puzzle mode, the place the participant is introduced with a premade spellbook that they should work out tips on how to grasp.
The replace is dwell on Steam and Itch.io The patch notes say the replace will final solely every week, till November 4th. Don’t be too upset, as they’re a sneaky approach of exhibiting off the game’s upcoming modding instruments. When the modding system is added throughout a future replace, you’ll be capable of dig up the Halloween content material and animate it like Dr. Frankenstein.
