Circadian Dice
A cosmic entity has twisted time into an endless cycle. By observing the repeating patterns, the entity intends to destroy all uncertainty and ultimately control reality.
In Circadian Dice, you control a group of heroes that have managed to step outside this unnatural cycle, and are now setting out to find and destroy its source. You will need to overcome a series of skirmishes by upgrading your dice to bend chance in your favor, and strategically using your limited resources to defeat your enemies.
While the heroes and their dice are restored to normal after each scenario (whether they die or succeed), any upgrades, relics, abilities, and modifiers that you have unlocked persist – so your arsenal is constantly improving! The better you perform in battle, the quicker you will build your arsenal and progress through the game towards your ultimate goal to break the loop and save the universe.
Features
- A game about probability manipulation and combo crafting: shape 6-sided dice into weapons of destruction, generators of wealth, magic conduits, or stat-boosting machines!
- 13 scenarios, each available in Normal and Hard Mode. In Hard Mode, each scenario is significantly changed with new enemies, secrets, and challenges!
- Built for quick pick-up-and-play sessions: each scenario takes between 10 and 30 minutes to play, and is designed as a stand-alone challenge.
- Unlockable end-game modes such as an endless randomized scenario, and a campaign mode that provides a more traditional, long-term roguelike experience.
- 10 different heroes with unique characteristics and play styles.
- 60 unlockable and equippable Relics that provide your hero with new abilities, change your stats, and give you game-warping bonuses.
- Tons of hand-drawn animations.
- 110+ different abilities that strengthen your hero, manipulate your dice, or damage your enemies.
- A semi-random upgrade mechanic for each scenario and hero, that ensures new combo opportunities every time you play.
- 66 enemies and 27 bosses, each with different characteristics and abilities.
- (Almost) every enemy can be captured in your dice to give you bonuses and new attacks based on the enemy’s attributes!
- Rare random enemy mutations that can either make your adventure harder, or be turned to your benefit.
- High replayability: random mutators, semi-random upgrade opportunities, and near-infinite combo possibilities makes each run of a scenario unique!
- Lots of secrets to discover.
- Extensive tooltips for every element in the game help you learn and strategize.
Game Discussion
Steam User 5
In my opinion, the best single-player digital dice game ever designed.
This game isn't another forced Balatro, Slay the Spire or Vampire Survivors clone, but the overall design is absolutely phenomenal and original, and in terms of gameplay satisfaction, I'd say it's on par with the three titles mentioned above.
All the elements are perfectly thought out and work together on all levels.
From the very first minutes of gameplay, you know we're dealing with something unique and special.
The gameplay surprises at every turn, new mechanics and elements added as you progress make you smile with disbelief and satisfaction...this game takes no prisoners, brazenly killing and captivating at every turn :)
I've played most of the dice-driven games available on the market, and nothing comes close.
The graphics in this game are, to put it mildly, less than spectacular, which absolutely doesn't change the fact that you'll be staring at the screen spellbound, as if you were experiencing the most beautiful game ever :)
I can't recommend this title enough. 5 stars, 10/10 masterpiece in its category.
And I'm saying all this in 2026, day before Slay the Spire II release.
Steam User 3
This is one of my all time favourite rougelikes. Love the variety they crammed into these dice and these characters. Not the best looking game, but it is one I come back to time and time again.
Steam User 1
this is an incredibly fun game that is truly hidden gem. its a shame more people dont know about it. super fun dice face changing broken build mechanics with an insane amount of content and soooo much to unlock, all thru normal progression.
Steam User 0
A bit of Balatro, Vampire Survivors, and Slay the Spire mixed together to make a really enjoyable game. Just the right amount of thinking, grinding, learning, and luck. Easy to learn, hard to master. I've enjoyed every minute.
Steam User 0
5/5 Really cool indie game. Fun game mechanics and a bunch of different abilities and relics that can interact with each other and vary play styles. Not too many good dice games out there, so bonus points for that
Steam User 0
A solid dice builder with loads of classes, scenarios, relics and enemies.
New mechanisms are elegantly introduced as you progress.
I’ve played a lot of dice games but nothing like this. For this price and content it’s 9/10. I’m not even halfway through it.
Steam User 0
This is a dice roguelike game. You pick a character who comes with their own mechanic and set of dice, and then take on various monsters. A "run" is just a continuous string of around 6 or 7 fights that take around 15 minutes to complete. Most of your choices boil down to rerolling your dice, changing the various dice faces, and choosing when to use your abilities. The moment to moment gameplay is pretty gripping and gives you a lot of control, despite the central mechanic being rolling dice.
The gameplay is very well designed, in that you get a good challenge with a lot of long term vs. short term decisions. There is also a good variety of enemies and characters, making runs look very different from another. As you complete runs you unlock new levels and character, as well as artifacts that modify the run at the beginning. Honestly, for the low price tag this game is very, very well thought out.
That said though, while the individual runs themselves are good, everything else in the game is not so great if you ask me. You do unlock a longer run mode by the end, that allows you tackle the various levels in a row or different random monsters forever, this does feel like an afterthought. I would have liked to see more gameplay elements between runs or additional mechanics in a run.
Another downside of the game is that it does look and sound not so great. I am sure some people appreciate the art style, but I do not, and the UI is pretty uninspired. During a fight the enemies and your character just float in black space with pretty generic sound effects punctuating various actions and the same music just playing over and over again.
Despite these complaints, the game is $6 and does go on sale regularly. Without a doubt the gameplay alone is worth it for that low cost.
Bottomline, if you are a roguelike fan or dice game fan, this is well, well worth it. Yes the game is not much to look at or listen to, but the gameplay should satisfy.