Games like Dicey Dungeons
If Dicey Dungeons is your kind of game, the closest matches are Slay the Spire, Balatro and Monster Train — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its build variety feels endless, challenging and contemplative. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Dicey Dungeons is a 2019 indie strategy game from Terry Cavanagh that blends roguelike deckbuilding with dice-based mechanics. Players explore procedurally generated dungeons, managing dice as their primary resource while selecting equipment and optimizing card builds across runs. Character-specific mechanics ensure each playthrough feels distinctly different, and the ability to steal equipment adds tactical variety to combat encounters. Players describe the experience as both challenging and whimsical, noting that colorful art and humor shine throughout despite the strategic demands. The game is verified for Steam Deck and supports short play sessions, holding a 90% positive rating from over 6,000 Steam reviews. At $3.74, the build variety feels nearly endless according to players.
About Dicey Dungeons: Become a giant walking dice, explore dungeons and defy Lady Luck in this dice powered roguelike! Now featuring "Reunion", a free DLC with six brand-new episodes!
Players who liked Dicey Dungeons also play
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Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Dicey Dungeons.
Top pick for Dicey Dungeons fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dicey Dungeons.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Balatro
WHY THIS
Shares build optimization and a funny mood with Dicey Dungeons.
Second-strongest match for Dicey Dungeons fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dicey Dungeons.
The poker roguelike. Balatro is a hypnotically satisfying deckbuilder where you play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers, and trigger adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos.
Monster Train
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Dicey Dungeons.
Third-strongest match for Dicey Dungeons fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Dicey Dungeons.
Monster Train is a strategic roguelike deck building game with a twist. Set on a train to hell, you’ll use tactical decision making to defend multiple vertical battlegrounds. With real time competitive multiplayer and endless replayability, Monster Train is always on time.
Neurodeck : Psychological Deckbuilder
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Dicey Dungeons.
Ranked #4 for Dicey Dungeons fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dicey Dungeons.
Neurodeck is a psychological deckbuilding card game to challenge your fears. Build your deck & capacities by answering personality tests, visiting rooms or meditating. Face your phobia and defeat them through the power of life-inspired cards.
Poker Quest: Swords and Spades
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Dicey Dungeons.
Ranked #5 for Dicey Dungeons fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dicey Dungeons.
Poker Quest is a fantasy roguelike where players use a standard 52-card deck to take on fierce enemies in epic battles. Featuring over 20 unique heroes, thousands of items, and deep gameplay that will test even the most experienced players.
Dice & Fold
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Dicey Dungeons.
Ranked #6 for Dicey Dungeons fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dicey Dungeons.
A turn-based dungeon crawler where your only way of attacking the enemy is by rolling dice. Roll dice to damage enemy cards to FOLD. Inspired by classic Solitaire, in a top-down table and enemies made out of cards, try to beat the dungeon with 35 unique classes. Build your deck, kill monsters.
Pawnbarian
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Dicey Dungeons.
Ranked #7 for Dicey Dungeons fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dicey Dungeons.
Pawnbarian is a quick-playing, turn-based puzzle roguelike. Play cards to move your hero like a chess piece, and conquer challenging dungeons full of cunning monsters!
Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Dicey Dungeons.
Ranked #8 for Dicey Dungeons fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dicey Dungeons.
Astrea is a DICE-deck-building roguelike that flips the script on deckbuilders by using dice instead of cards and a unique dual “damage” system: Purification vs Corruption. Build a dice pool strong enough to purify Astrea's out-of-control corruption and save the Star System.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Dicey Dungeons
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Slice & Dice
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Dicey Dungeons.
Reviewers of Dicey Dungeons cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Tactical dice-rolling roguelike combat. Take control of 5 heroes, each with their own unique dice. Fight your way through 20 levels of monsters and try to take on the final boss. If you lose a single fight you have to start over so be careful (and lucky!).
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Dicey Dungeons.
Reviewers of Dicey Dungeons cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dicey Dungeons.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Roguebook
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Dicey Dungeons.
Reviewers of Dicey Dungeons cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dicey Dungeons.
Embrace the challenge of a roguelike deckbuilder with unique mechanics from the developers of Faeria and Richard Garfield, creator of Magic: The Gathering™. Build a team of two heroes, unleash powerful combos and defeat the legends of the Roguebook!
Monster Train
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Dicey Dungeons.
Reviewers of Dicey Dungeons cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Dicey Dungeons.
Monster Train is a strategic roguelike deck building game with a twist. Set on a train to hell, you’ll use tactical decision making to defend multiple vertical battlegrounds. With real time competitive multiplayer and endless replayability, Monster Train is always on time.
Balatro
WHY THIS
Shares build optimization and a funny mood with Dicey Dungeons.
Reviewers of Dicey Dungeons cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dicey Dungeons.
The poker roguelike. Balatro is a hypnotically satisfying deckbuilder where you play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers, and trigger adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos.
NEOVERSE
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Dicey Dungeons.
Reviewers of Dicey Dungeons cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dicey Dungeons.
Neoverse is a beautiful, fantastic game consisting of adventures with thrilling challenges. It is a strategic, action, rogue-lite, deck building game that will test the player’s skill. Start an adventure with unique heroes to save the world along various timelines.
Tainted Grail: Conquest
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Dicey Dungeons cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Dicey Dungeons.
A unique, infinitely replayable, story-driven hybrid between a deck-building Roguelike and an RPG game. Explore the ever-changing maps, fight with deadly enemies, and learn what happened to the cursed island of Avalon.
Ring of Pain
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Dicey Dungeons.
Reviewers of Dicey Dungeons cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dicey Dungeons.
Enter the Ring of Pain, a roguelike card crawler where encounters come to you. Each step around the ring a dire decision. Go for the loot or backstab a creeping horror? Meet strange friends bearing gifts and treasure. Choose your gear wisely to survive and discover the secrets of the Ring of Pain.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Dicey Dungeons at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~74% under Dicey Dungeons on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dicey Dungeons.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Dicey Dungeons on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dicey Dungeons.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Dicey Dungeons on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dicey Dungeons.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~74% under Dicey Dungeons on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dicey Dungeons.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Dicey Dungeons on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dicey Dungeons.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
The NOexistenceN of you AND me
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Dicey Dungeons on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dicey Dungeons.
Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
WHY THIS
Priced ~74% under Dicey Dungeons on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dicey Dungeons.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dicey Dungeons.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dicey Dungeons.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dicey Dungeons.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dicey Dungeons.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dicey Dungeons.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dicey Dungeons.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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More from Terry Cavanagh
Other recommendable Steam games by Terry Cavanagh, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Super Hexagon
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Dicey Dungeons.
Another title from Terry Cavanagh, the studio behind Dicey Dungeons. Shares Indie with Dicey Dungeons.
Super Hexagon is a minimal action game by Terry Cavanagh, with music by Chipzel.
VVVVVV
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Dicey Dungeons.
Another title from Terry Cavanagh, the studio behind Dicey Dungeons. Shares Indie with Dicey Dungeons.
VVVVVV is a platform game all about exploring one simple mechanical idea - what if you reversed gravity instead of jumping?
Terry's Other Games
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Dicey Dungeons.
Another title from Terry Cavanagh, the studio behind Dicey Dungeons. Shares Indie with Dicey Dungeons.
Hi, I'm Terry Cavanagh! You might remember me from such videogames as Dicey Dungeons, Super Hexagon, and VVVVVV. Here are a few other things I've made over the years!
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Dicey Dungeons.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dicey Dungeons.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Balatro
WHY THIS
Shares build optimization and a funny mood with Dicey Dungeons.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dicey Dungeons.
The poker roguelike. Balatro is a hypnotically satisfying deckbuilder where you play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers, and trigger adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos.
Dice & Fold
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Dicey Dungeons.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dicey Dungeons.
A turn-based dungeon crawler where your only way of attacking the enemy is by rolling dice. Roll dice to damage enemy cards to FOLD. Inspired by classic Solitaire, in a top-down table and enemies made out of cards, try to beat the dungeon with 35 unique classes. Build your deck, kill monsters.
Pawnbarian
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Dicey Dungeons.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dicey Dungeons.
Pawnbarian is a quick-playing, turn-based puzzle roguelike. Play cards to move your hero like a chess piece, and conquer challenging dungeons full of cunning monsters!
Frequently asked about Dicey Dungeons
- Is Dicey Dungeons verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Dicey Dungeons is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Dicey Dungeons cost?
- Dicey Dungeons is listed on Steam at 3.74 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Dicey Dungeons?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dicey Dungeons are Slay the Spire, Balatro, Monster Train.
- Who developed Dicey Dungeons?
- Dicey Dungeons was developed by Terry Cavanagh.
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