Dice Tavern: Farkle Roguelike

Dice Tavern: Farkle Roguelike is built around Farkle, a long-established dice game in which players roll dice and choose whether to bank their points or keep rolling. A roll with no scoring dice, known as a Farkle, loses all points for that round. The game adds roguelike deckbuilding to these rules. Its setting follows Elena, a girl from the North who turned Farkle into a challenge played across a kingdom. Players work through six taverns, from a village to the throne, facing 30 opponents with target scores that rise from 3,500 to 500,000.

There are 35 dice, each with its own ability, and 43 synergies that activate when specific dice are combined. Examples include Underdog, which lets cheap dice change the rules for straights, and Holy Empire and Demon Dynasty, which centre on three core dice in a build. Dice can be modified with lead weights to alter their odds, copper, silver or gold stickers to improve weak faces or add multipliers, and cheating tools. Playable characters, including the Gambler, Alchemist and Joker, each change the rules in different ways. Some allow greater risk with fewer turns, one makes coatings cheaper while raising the price of dice, and another gives every scoring roll a 65% chance to double the score or a 35% chance to reduce it to 1 point.

Each opponent applies a challenge modifier, such as sealing certain scoring numbers, restricting combinations, adding extra penalties for Farkles or reducing the player’s total score every turn. Shops are randomised, gold is limited and routes change between runs. Clearing all six taverns for the first time unlocks further modes. Decrees offers 15 levels, each adding a restriction that stacks with those from previous levels. Endgame presents runs with preset dice, resources and objectives, to be solved within the given limits. One DLC item is also available for the game on Steam.