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DICEY DUNGEONS

THE BACKGROUND

With deck-building games being so popular in the board-game community it was perhaps inevitable that the formula would be used by inventive videogame developers. While a large number of great examples now exist, including Slay The Spire and Monster Train, one of the very best is Terry Cavanagh’s excellent Dicey Dungeons.

If that name seems familiar to you it’s because Terry has been behind two darling indie hits, the rhythm game and the gravity-bending platformer , as well

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