Dice Legacy

Dice Legacy

September 9, 2021

PuzzleSimulationStrategy Nintendo SwitchPC

Dice Legacy is a dice-based survival city builder set on a mysterious ringworld. Your ship has reached the shore of an uncharted continent. Roll and use your dice to gather resources, expand and defend your settlement, survive the winter and interact with the strange inhabitants of this eerie world. Put …

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Alec Padua WhatIfGaming Sep 2021
75.0 /100

Graphics

70.0

Gameplay

75.0

Story

75.0

"Optimizing the best dice combination that you can think of when building your civilization has surprisingly been fun for me. Playing this game will require a lot of patience and engaging blindly without a solid plan will ruin the fun."

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Chris Inglis GameOnAUS Sep 2021
80.0 /100

Graphics

78.0

Gameplay

25.0

Story

45.0

"Dice Legacy is a fun take on the city-builder genre with dice as your workers, though it did take me several hours to get my head around all the main mechanics and research better build/research orders."

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Claudio Chianese IGN Italy Sep 2021
72.0 /100

Graphics

85.0

Gameplay

70.0

Story

60.0

"Dice Legacy is a cute quirky game. The basic mechanics, founded on randomness and dices, are just that, a quirk: the gameplay is, in the end, not that innovative, but the strategical experience is solid and makes for a good, …"

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Eliot Lefebvre Gamer Escape Sep 2021
70.0 /100

Graphics

65.0

Gameplay

70.0

Story

60.0

"At the same time, I do think there’s an appealing and fun game there just the same. The core gameplay loop is well-defined and unique, and the game has a unique charm to it. I might not be the target …"

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Eric Fernández NaviGames Sep 2021
90.0 /100

Graphics

70.0

Gameplay

85.0

Story

40.0

"Dice Legacy is undoubtedly a must-have for management game lovers. Sprinkled with hints of strategy and survival that add to the title an extra layer of depth, while still managing to be accessible to newcomers."

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Euyen Esquefa Pons 33bits Sep 2021
80.0 /100

Graphics

68.0

Gameplay

72.0

Story

48.0

"Dice Legacy embraces the RNG in all its glory, although we will have several ways to minimize it. If you don&s;t hate games where chance can be important, and you like management games, the new DESTINYbit title will be very …"

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Fox Doucette GameSkinny Sep 2021
50.0 /100

Graphics

20.0

Gameplay

40.0

Story

15.0

"Dice Legacy tries to serve up a meaty roguelike/RTS hybrid, but the shallow, repetitive gameplay loop will leave you asking, "Where&s;s the beef?""

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Hayden Trattner Chalgyr&s;s Game Room Sep 2021
85.0 /100

Graphics

92.0

Gameplay

91.0

Story

70.0

"Overall, Dice Legacy is a very fresh and creative entry in a genre that can often feel like every game is just a reskin of another. The use of dice to randomize the actions available and the steady pace of …"

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70.0 /100

"Dice Legacy leaves a lasting impression of something basic in concept but tremendous in possibilities. With bucolic aesthetics and a simply lovely soundtrack to match, Dice Legacy wants players to know that dice-based gameplay can be incredibly deep and immediately …"

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Jamie Laike Tsui Capsule Computers Sep 2021
60.0 /100

Graphics

60.0

Gameplay

60.0

Story

60.0

"While the gameplay is impressively innovative, the execution falls flat due to poor pacing and a badly designed learning curve."

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Justin Nation Nindie Spotlight Sep 2021
64.0 /100

Graphics

68.0

Gameplay

72.0

Story

63.0

"One problem many solid PC strategy games have had on the Switch has been trying to take what are often intuitive controls and screens from the mouse and keyboard world and trying to map them to a controller..."

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80.0 /100

Graphics

85.0

Gameplay

80.0

Story

65.0

"Dice Legacy brings a refreshing and challenging strategy format to the table. The dice mechanics will force you to think on your feet and adapt your strategy along the way, making Dice Legacy’s core gameplay more energetic and dynamic compared …"

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Manuel J. Mora GuiltyBit Sep 2021
95.0 /100

"It does not ask us as much complication as a Civilization or a Humankind. It also doesn&s;t have as many options as a Theme-whatever. But of course, his strategy is very intense. The games are fast, direct and we will …"

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Marco Bortoluzzi The Games Machine Sep 2021
80.0 /100

Graphics

75.0

Gameplay

85.0

Story

65.0

"Dice Legacy is a competent strategy/survival game with some neat and well-implemented ideas; the random element is there, but generally easy to handle, and good planning trumps sheer luck. However, it isn&s;t particularly rich in content, and it might get …"

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Paula Moore LadiesGamers.com Sep 2021
65.0 /100

Graphics

72.0

Gameplay

68.0

Story

64.0

"If you have read this review up till now, I thank you, you will probably have guessed by reading the review that I am not about to give Dice Legacy a really high score. The UI and the game’s lack …"

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Ricky Knight COGconnected Sep 2021
82.0 /100

Graphics

40.0

Gameplay

75.0

Story

60.0

"Overall, Dice Legacy is a fun stress machine that borrows the better parts of other genres. While it doesn’t always do everything well or necessarily telegraph its harder ideas ahead of time, it can be a tense thrill when you …"

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Scott Ellison II Saving Content Sep 2021
80.0 /100

Graphics

85.0

Gameplay

72.0

Story

68.0

"The overarching mystery of the ringworld persists until you discover the truth. And with all of its system and randomness, Dice Legacy is challenging, enamoring, and rewarding. You’ll never get to settle on any one way of playing, always trying …"

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Seb Hawden Rapid Reviews UK Sep 2021
70.0 /100

Graphics

58.0

Gameplay

72.0

Story

38.0

"Two of my favourite things in the world are video games and board games and when they collide, woo-hoo, exciting times ahoy! I knew nothing about Dice Legacy going in but I knew it had dice and was a video …"

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Tom Sykes PC Gamer Sep 2021
70.0 /100

Graphics

30.0

Gameplay

25.0

Story

20.0

"A smart, peculiar city builder that ends in a gruelling uphill battle against a rival city."

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