![]() ![]() There are 156 items, most of which remain a mystery to me. ![]() There are 60 different classes to uncover, of which I’ve discovered about half so far. New inventory items might be as simple as adding a +2 sword attack to your Warrior, but new class types open up completely new dice, whole new branches of tactics, and of course for the dedicated, the sort of min-maxy attention that comes with trying different hero combinations. Where the real depth of variety occurs here is in just how different that proves every time you play. When you win rounds, you alternately choose a new piece of equipment that augments a character’s die, or get to upgrade one of two of your characters to a new class type. What’s so interesting is that this doesn’t diminish the experience, even when all is clearly very hopeless. It’s not about hitting and hoping, but rather knowing exactly how the round’s going to go down before it’s begun. That’s a lot more information than such games traditionally give (in my experience), and it really shifts the tactical focus onto defensive manoeuvres rather than speculative attacks. Equally, the enemies roll dice to determine their attacks, and the game lets you know before you start which will attack who, and what attack they’ll use. Each turn your heroes roll their dice, with two more rerolls available to any you don’t assign, and then play those moves against the enemies. As you might expect, they have a spread of skills from archery, sword-chops, shields, healing and magic, which are all stored on the sides of dice. A Thief, Warrior, Defender, Acolyte and Adept. ![]() Slice & Dice is a great roguelite dice-rolling game, with grungy pixel graphics, and a huge number of features to find as you compulsively replay and replay and replay and replay and replay and replay and replay and replay and replay and replay and replay and replay and replay and replay and replay and replay and replay and replay and replay and replay and replay and replay and replay and replay and replay and replay and replay and replay and replay. I was nagged into Slice & Dice, by Buried Treasure’s excellent Discord. ![]()
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