Davy bones

Davy Bones is a roguelike score-strategy game built on the rules of Yacht Dice. Players take charge of a cursed sea voyage in which each round sets a target score to reach. Five dice are rolled, with the option to keep some results and reroll the rest up to three times. Points are then assigned to Upper Section or Lower Section categories, and a poor roll can be scored for zero if needed. Failing to meet the round’s target ends the run.

Scoring earns gold, which can be spent in a shop between rounds on consumables, one-turn blessings and passive trinkets. A large collection of nautical relics is available, and these can change base scores, multipliers, rerolls, gold income, score categories, shop contents and boss encounters. A TO B and A TOO B effects transform dice and scoreboards, and CHAOS and ULTRA CHAOS options can be unlocked for higher-risk approaches. Boss encounters take place in rounds 3, 6, 9, 10, 13, 16 and 19, each with randomised rule-changing gimmicks and a weakness. Bosses include the Giant Squid, Anglerfish, Blobfish, Giant Manta, Kraken, Blue Marlin, Megalodon and Whale Shark, with a final battle against Davy Bones in round 20 (round 21 on Streamer difficulty).

The game offers Basic, Hard, Extreme and Streamer difficulty modes, which alter target pressure and boss gimmicks, and completing the voyage unlocks an Endless mode. Procedural boss gimmicks, shop choices, dice outcomes and relic combinations vary between runs. Progress can be tracked in an in-game Codex, and there are 29 Steam achievements. The game uses an occult nautical art style with accompanying music and sound effects, and the interface is available in English, Korean, Japanese and Simplified Chinese.