Cats & Dice

Cats & Dice is a dice-building roguelike where you combine Cats, Items and dice effects to score as highly as possible. Each round, you play the dice your Cats generate and try to reach its target score.

Cats and Items

Maneki-neko Cats are central to each run. Every Cat has a passive ability that can shape your approach, and generates its own unique die at the start of each round. For example, one Cat creates a die with four on every side. You do not draw additional dice from a deck.

You can equip Items to the Cats you own. Items can add to or alter passive abilities, or give a Cat’s dice extra effects and let you customize them. Items are not permanently attached, so you can swap them out and try different strategies. The game includes over 90 Cats and 150 Items, each with a distinct ability that could change how you approach a run.

Score with dice

Dice combinations can earn bonus points, and each round gives you a number of rerolls to change specific dice. Some dice have special effects, such as adding a scoring multiplier or granting more rerolls. The game has more than 15 bonuses based on unique dice combinations.

Choices and stages

A Boon/Bane system, akin to boss fights, asks you to weigh the pros and cons of your selection. Tickets can permanently aid your run if you can afford them. Each stage sets a higher score target than the last; pass the final hurdle to unlock endless mode and see how far your build can go.

Your run combines Cats’ passive abilities, dice effects, Item effects and other game-changing choices.