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Dice Gauntlet: Roguelike RPG
A turn-based dice roguelike with three heroes, telegraphed enemies and no ads, timers or energy.
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- Developer
- Jason Fraser
- Score
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- Age
- Rated 9+
- Genre
- Strategy
- Price
- Free
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About this game
Closer to a solitaire puzzle than an action game, Dice Gauntlet is a tactical roguelike played at your own pace. A party of three heroes descends a dungeon of twelve floors, and every enemy reveals what it will do next, so each turn is a matter of rolling dice, locking the faces you want, rerolling the rest and dragging them onto targets. Each hero carries a custom six-sided die of skills, and there are nine classes to learn, 26 monster types and three bosses with two fighting styles apiece. Runs are shaped by relics (40 of them) and by route cards that trade one risk for another before a floor. Daily and weekly seeded challenges give everyone the same dungeon, and even lost runs pay out currency for the Forge, where prices are fixed and nothing is random. There are no ads, timers, energy or subscriptions. Everything runs offline, and the first four floors cost nothing.
Dice Gauntlet: Roguelike RPG: the full guide
What the game is
A one-person tactical roguelike that the developer compares to solitaire rather than to action games. Three heroes descend twelve dungeon floors, each enemy shows what it will do next, and your turn is spent rolling, locking the faces that help, rerolling what doesn't and dragging results onto targets. There's no clock and no pressure beyond the maths.
Jason Fraser has filled it out well: nine classes, each hero with a custom six-sided skill die, twenty-six monster types, three bosses with two styles each, forty relics, route cards that swap one risk for a different one, and daily and weekly seeded runs.
How a session plays
A run is a sequence of fights, each a puzzle with full information. You can see the enemy's next move, so the question each turn is how to arrange your dice to blunt it while setting up damage. Lock the faces that work, reroll the rest, commit. Between floors a route card offers a trade-off that reshapes the next stretch.
Losing isn't wasted. Every run pays currency into the Forge, whose prices never change and never involve chance, so the long game is a steady opening up of options rather than a gamble. Seeded challenges let players compare identical dungeons.
Why people look for it
Mobile players who like tactics have learned to distrust free games, and Dice Gauntlet's listing reads like a direct answer to that: no ads, no timers, no energy, no subscription, works offline, first four floors free. That checklist is what gets it found. The telegraphed-enemy design appeals to people who want to think rather than react.
Look and feel
Expect a top-down or side-on dungeon view with dice front and centre, enemy intent icons above each monster, and a drag-to-target interaction that the five screenshots should make clear. As a solo developer's project, the art is likely functional rather than lavish, though nothing in the listing lets us say more. Strategy games of this type are judged on readability, and the design brief here is clarity of information.
