Dice With Death
Worth it · Roguelike · 2026
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $13.99.
- Length
- 4h
- Value
- $3.50/hr
- Reviews
- 92% of 838 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely between Oct 27 and Nov 9, at about $4.61 (67% off). Calls like this were right 78% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks. Its own discounts have started about 45 days apart.
Last cut ended 9 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
Dice With Death is a Dicebuilding Roguelike – Unfortunately you have already died. Fortunately, Death is up for some friendly competition. Collect new dice and relics, create damage stacking combos, and even cheat Death himself to emerge victorious.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: DirectX 11+ Compatible GPU with 6GB+ VRAM. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 16 times in the 18 months tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 4 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 9 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 21 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 84 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Balatro ($14.99, scores 95) beats it on value, while it beats Iris and the Giant ($17.99, scores 64).
More about Dice With Death
This site sampled 361 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 4 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written May 2025 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 80 percent of the 130 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 17 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 4 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
83% start to 5% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
very fun game. had problems with 2 unlocks. communication with dev felt like live chat. problem was solved one day later through a patch.
2 more reviews
ᓚᘏᗢ Not only is Dice With Death 's gameplay exceptionally well crafted, but the writing is also top-notch. The personality of Death, in particular, is subtle and bittersweet. The game itself is as addictive as chocolate.
This Death... is comforting. I'm reminded distinctly of Discworld's Death, but with significantly more free time on the shore. The gameplay is deceptively simple, hiding build complexitiy that allows for any relic combination you can dream up! And the characters all arrive on Deaths shores having lived rich lives, bringing with them their most meaningful mementos and stories of their time upon the earth. A game like...
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No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Dice With Death scores 69/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/3435260/dice-with-deathReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 28, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.