Since Balatro's runaway success I've seen a horde of roguelikes trying to recapture the magic with little success. Dice A Million is the closest I've seen yet, rolling the dice more than a few times during Steam Next Fest. A switch from playing cards to dice is an elegant shift in direction that makes for a refreshing twist while remaining easy to understand – if anything, knowing how dice rolls work plays with shared human knowledge even more than scoring poker hands.
If you somehow missed the birth of this genre with the excellent Balatro, this style of roguelike is all about scoring points – and the same is true for Dice A Million, which comes from developer countlessnights. This twist on the roguelike tasks you with making your way through challenges that require you to match ever escalating points by playing a limited number of hands or rolls. Between each challenge you can enhance your 'deck', aiming to build combos that will power up scoring in often game-breaking ways. Where Balatro uses poker hands for scoring, Dice A Million is all about rolling dice with unique faces to achieve a total score. Extremely replayable because of this system, it's well worth trying for yourself, and checking out our Steam Next Fest guide for more.
