Roll The Bones

Brief game description

Roll The Bones is a fast-paced, pixelart roguelite focusing on a unique mix of fantasy theme with dice-rolling mechanics and arcade elements. Players complete increasingly more difficult dungeons and challenges by customizing their spell-dice used throughout the runs. Each dice side has a spell and once it's used up the dice is rerolled. Addition of behavior altering dice-materials, ult-like artifacts and various upgrades provides extreme replayability potential.

Game factsheet

Genre: Action roguelite
Artstyle: Pixelart
Theme: Fantasy mixed with modern and arcade elements

Planned release date: Q3/Q4 2025
Price: 9.99$ (and additional 20% discount on release)
Platforms: PC (on release date), PS, XBOX (ports are planned for a later date)
Number of players: Singleplayer
Publisher: No additional publisher, game is solo-published
Additional features: Gamepad support; works well on Steamdeck

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Gameplay screenshots

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Additional game info

Spell-dice: Spell-dice are the backbone of the game. Player chooses a set of 4 spell-dice before starting each run. Dice have up to 6 different spells on each side, each spell can have different number of uses. Once spell is used up, dice is rerolled. With reroll taking some time, player is encouraged to switch between the 4 equipped dice dynamically. Throughout the run, player will upgrade the dice - by levelling individual spells, exchanging them completely or upgrading dice materials. The latter option changes behavior of the dice when Crit is rolled. Default materials alter basic stats like damage or reload time while more powerful materials can add various effects to spells like lightning strike or meteor summon.

Artifacts: In addition to spell-dice, players can use powerful Artifacts. To power them up, player needs to gather arcade score by performing quick kills or doing combos. More flow = more opportunities to use artifacts.

Levels: Game consists of several, multi-floor dungeons ending with boss fights. For those runs players usually have a lot of freedom when it comes to choosing their unique starting loadout of spell-dice and artifacts. Crafting a well-balanced backpack of spells makes dealing with specific enemies easier. Besides dungeons map is filled with additional challenges that present difficult, single-floor levels and offer limited choice of spell-dice. Player needs to adapt to the conditions and fight against odds.

Enemies: Based on fantasy theme, game is filled with basic enemies such as slimes, rats, skeletons as well as more powerful ones like demons and angels. Enemies also use spell-dice to attack the player - rolling the dice may result in weaker or more powerful attacks.

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Promotional artwork

Promotional artwork is mostly visible on Steam page and regular posts published on X.com or Reddit. Current version of the Steam capsules was created by the one and only Gerrin Tramis. Check out his other work here!

Current (and older, obsolete versions) of all promotional materials and artwork can be downloaded in high-res here.

Logos

Logos can be downloaded in high-res here.

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