Games Where The Dice Are The Stars

Whether it's the behind-the-scenes calculations of a video game or the secondary mechanics of a board game, dice rolls are often the unsung heroes of the gaming world. This list is their moment to shine and get the plaudits they so rightly deserve.

The games in this list wear their dice on their sleeve, making them the star of the show. Some of them even turn the dice into characters of their own.

This list includes 22 games from the last 67 years, with 148 likes. They come from a range of different genres and play-styles and are all good games if you want to play games with dice. We break them down into the following areas:

List Details

PEGI Ratings: PEGI 3 to PEGI 18
ESRB Ratings: ESRB EVERYONE to ESRB MATURE 17+
Australian Ratings: G to MA 15+
Genres: Action, Adventure, Battle, Brain Game, Collecting, Communication, Dexterity, Fighting, Narrative, Platform, Point-and-Click, Push-Your-Luck, Puzzle, Race, Role-Play, Roll-And-Write, Sequencing, Simulation, Strategy, Traversal and World Building
Total Likes: 148

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Escape: The Curse of the Temple

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Fantastic Factories

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Sagrada

Sagrada is a collecting and sequencing dice game where you construct intricate stained glass windows. You choose and place dice on your window to meet different rules, make patterns and score points. It stands out not only for the beautiful patterns you...

Tumble Town

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Bloom

Bloom is a roll-and-write game where you compete to become the most successful flower seller. You roll dice and mark off colour combinations of flowers to score points. You need to balance allotting dice to individual bouquets or a larger volume of...

Roll For It!

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Cubitos

Cubitos is a traversal game where you race an animal in the annual Cube Cup. You play by rolling dice and moving your animal around the track. It is a game of making your own luck by continually defying the odds and propelling yourself forward over the...

Dice Characters

Cuphead

Cuphead is a running, jumping and shooting game that looks like an old Mickey Mouse cartoon. You play on your own or with someone else and work across the screen, jumping gaps, shooting enemies and avoiding projectiles.

Lost in Random

Lost in Random is an adventure where you play an anthropomorphic dice and a young girl called Even. In her world, when she turns 12 she must roll a magical die to be assigned a region to live in and a life to live. But seeing her sister go through this...

Slice and Dice

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Dicey Dungeons

Dicey Dungeons is a video game adventure where you build a deck of cards to represent characters, attacks and weapons. Here the novelty is that these cards combine with dice rolls to determine who wins battles.

Citizen Sleeper

Citizen Sleeper is a role-play game set in the ruins of interplanetary capitalism. You are an escaped worker exploring a lawless space station, making friends, and (ultimately) trying to escape your past. Each cycle you roll dice and decide how to spend...

Baldur's Gate 3

Baldur's Gate 3 is a role-playing game that recreates the Dungeons & Dragons experience in a digital world. You explore the world and fight enemies by rolling dice and weighing up your stats to see what happens. But...

Tharsis

Tharsis is a tough strategy-simulation game where you must survive a doomed mission to Mars. You roll dice whose outcome can either help repair the ship or make things worse by injuring crew mates or causing further damage. The dice foreground the...

Dice Throne

Dice Throne is a battle game where wide-ranging heroes fight for victory. You play by rolling dice to complete specific combinations, collecting cards and activating your powers when you need them. It is a fight to the death that takes place over a...

Baladins

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Snapshot: Wildlife Photographer is a push-your-luck game about a photographer looking for the perfect animal snaps. You play by revealing Animal cards, then assigning and rolling dice in order to successfully photograph them. It is a game about risking...

FlickFleet

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Perudo

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Tens!

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Yahtzee

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