How far do you think you can go on this endless journey of chopping things off? You have a flying, sharp knife, and the control is all in your hands. If you want to see more reviews of great indie games, please consider backing this project.It's time to Slice It All! Do you like chopping things off? Does it give you some kind of a joy to slice potatoes? If so, you can now chop anything you see as much as you can in this game. So I shall in turn pester you to play it.Īll Buried Treasure articles are funded by Patreon backers. There’s loads to love here, and I’m now completely on board with Team Discord and their pestering enthusiasm. And then probably play it instead of sleeping tonight. It’s also on Android for free, as an Early Access game, and I’m going to check out that version next. This seems like it could blow up if it found its way to Steam, although there is the issue of a game called Slice & Dice already on there, which must be frustrating. This is the work of Tann, and is currently only available on Itch. I’ll… I’ll let you know about those soon, eh? Don’t want to overwhelm you all at once with too much information. Plus it’s all just so fast, so scrappy, and with just 20 levels to get through (with an Easy mode that offers you an extra bonus, like more player health, or weaker enemies, a Normal, and Difficult for extra challenge), it feels like it should be very achievable.Ĭomplete those 20 levels and you can unlock new modes, like an endless, or the option to hand-pick heroes. Rerolling has that hooky gambly feel, as you risk not picking up that +3 attack in case you can get the +5, but may well end up with a blank side from a previously used one-time special move. It’s fun to discover tactics that work well when dealing with the Slimer, that spawns infuriating Slimelets, or master the dark art of defeating the Lich. The first few sets of enemies are very samey, but it quickly diverges as you pick new hero branches, or encounter different mini-bosses. I’ve also encountered 23 out of the 36 monster types, which include seven different bosses.Īll this mixing and matching means runs do feel much more different than I first thought. There are 156 items, most of which remain a mystery to me. There are 60 different classes to uncover, of which I’ve discovered about half so far. New inventory items might be as simple as adding a +2 sword attack to your Warrior, but new class types open up completely new dice, whole new branches of tactics, and of course for the dedicated, the sort of min-maxy attention that comes with trying different hero combinations. Where the real depth of variety occurs here is in just how different that proves every time you play. When you win rounds, you alternately choose a new piece of equipment that augments a character’s die, or get to upgrade one of two of your characters to a new class type. What’s so interesting is that this doesn’t diminish the experience, even when all is clearly very hopeless. It’s not about hitting and hoping, but rather knowing exactly how the round’s going to go down before it’s begun. That’s a lot more information than such games traditionally give (in my experience), and it really shifts the tactical focus onto defensive manoeuvres rather than speculative attacks. Equally, the enemies roll dice to determine their attacks, and the game lets you know before you start which will attack who, and what attack they’ll use. Each turn your heroes roll their dice, with two more rerolls available to any you don’t assign, and then play those moves against the enemies. As you might expect, they have a spread of skills from archery, sword-chops, shields, healing and magic, which are all stored on the sides of dice. A Thief, Warrior, Defender, Acolyte and Adept. Slice & Dice is a great roguelite dice-rolling game, with grungy pixel graphics, and a huge number of features to find as you compulsively replay and replay and replay and replay and replay and replay and replay and replay and replay and replay and replay and replay and replay and replay and replay and replay and replay and replay and replay and replay and replay and replay and replay and replay and replay and replay and replay and replay and replay. I was nagged into Slice & Dice, by Buried Treasure’s excellent Discord.
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