This dice-rolling roguelite is like Balatro on steroids, and its bosses are pure evil

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Subscribe to our newsletter I spent most of Steam Next Fest playing Balatro-likes—here’s a list of seven demos I think you should try—but it wasn’t until this weekend when I stumbled upon a nifty dice-roller called Dice A Million.I’ve been playing the demo every day since, and you should too, but there’s a bonus: if you like it, you don’t need to wait for the full version. Dice A Million launched last week and it’s on sale for another week.Yeah, it’s like Balatro, but with dice. You start with a few dice to roll and a score to beat each round, but it escalates incredibly quickly. Part of the reason is that you advance when you’ve run out of rolls, not when you’ve topped the required score—which means you can rack up a ton of extra points to spend between rounds. Related articles Steam Next Fest is full of Balatro-likes: here’s 7 demos I think you should try This roguelike deckbuilder may look like edutainment, but its maths-based battles are surprisingly tense and strategic I don’t care that there are no big new games in January because all I need now is Ball x Pit, the most underrated roguelike pinball game that I could spend all 744 hours of the month playing In the early game of Balatro, you might buy a new joker, a couple consumables, maybe a voucher, but it’s rare to have enough money to go nuts in the store until much later into a round. In Dice A Million, even in the early game, you’ll quickly be drowning in cash and going on huge shopping sprees, buying new dice, adding cards (which can boost your rolls and enchant your dice), and covering your fingers in magic rings (which give you all sorts of bonuses).The dice are really inventive, too. You begin with some lame ones, like dice with only three or four faces, but soon your hand will feel like an entir