I spend various my time thinking about dice games, so my consideration was piqued by the brand new demo for Dicefolk – a kind of Pokémon battler however with cube (and likewise it’s a roguelike).
The gist is that this: you kind a celebration of cute-looking chimeras, earlier than battling them towards different cute-looking (however not as cute as yours, obvs) chimeras. These battles play out loads just like the traditional turn-based assaults of Pokémon, however are managed with a set of cube.
There’s a little bit of a twist, in that you just don’t simply management your squad of Pokém- I imply, chimeras with the cube. Cube in your aspect of the display do issues like assault, defend and swap round your squad, whereas cube you may activate on the enemy’s aspect allow you to swap them round, set off results and in any other case manipulate them that will help you win.
Natch, the thought is to attempt to catch ‘em all (or, in Dicefolk’s parlance, “Recruit” or “Reject”), with totally different chimeras having a wide range of powers and choices to strategy battles otherwise. There’ll even be talismans you may accumulate so as to uncover the backstory behind your creature companions, and you’ll equip your pocket-monster buddies with tools to additional spec them in direction of the proper social gathering.
![Dicefolk gameplay showing the squad menu and a chimera drawn by the talisman](https://assetsio.reedpopcdn.com/dicefolk-gameplay-talisman.jpeg?width=690&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp)
Dicefolk is a run-based recreation designed for a number of replays, too, with a map display with totally different branching paths just like one thing like Slay the Spire.
The colorful, slightly-anime (are these horns, or catgirl ears on the primary character?) art work undoubtedly brings to thoughts some acquainted Poké-faces, together with equally Mad Libs names like Dralcapel, Tormentine and the frankly hilarious Minkpocket.
You can provide Dicefolk a go for your self by nabbing the demo now accessible over on its Steam page, forward of a future launch later in 2023.