Settings

Adjust overall audio balance. Sound changes apply immediately and save automatically.

Battle Setup

Choose A Play Mode

Start a solo dungeon run or launch a local head-to-head Versus match.

Mode

Adventure Solo starts the dungeon. Versus starts a local head-to-head match.

Quick Start

How to Play Dice & Dash

Walk through the basics one step at a time. This tutorial focuses on the core flow, the important buttons, and the board highlights players need to recognize fast.

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What To Do

Why It Matters

Save Files

Save or Load Your Run

Store your progress in one of two local save slots on this device. You can load from the title screen, or save mid-run before stepping away.

Update Notes

Patch Notes

Major updates added to Dice & Dash from March 28, 2026 through April 26, 2026. The newest notes are shown first, while the previous March 28-April 8 notes are tucked into a compact archive window.

Current Window

April 9, 2026 - April 26, 2026

This update window focuses on playtest polish: clearer dungeon routing, new hero ultimates earned after Boss 1, second-loop rewards, animated combat presentation, and stronger mobile/save support.

Dungeon Flow And Rewards

A parchment-style Dungeon Map now appears at encounter starts and stage summaries, with the active node highlighted for the next step.
Route choices can now be assigned per hero, letting wounded units take Camp while healthier units chase Treasure in the same checkpoint.
The second loop now supports a second Treasure reward cycle with new relic effects for each hero.
Camp choices can preserve and upgrade passives, giving long runs more strategic recovery decisions.

Boss Rewards And Ultimates

Beating Boss 1 now unlocks hero-specific Ultimate abilities for surviving playable units.
Elemental Rune Knight can use Earthen Defender to taunt nearby enemies and convert incoming damage into healing.
Wind Reaver, Arcanist, and Life Warden gained Tempest Shot, Arcane Burst, and Verdant Pulse as post-boss power spikes.
Ultimates now track recharge progress, surface readiness in the HUD, and save correctly between sessions.

Combat Presentation

Attack roll faceoffs now show animated attacker and defender portrait cards before resolving the outcome.
New attack GIFs were added for ERK, Wind Reaver, Arcanist, Life Warden, Stonefang, Rotwood, Mirecaster, Troll Chieftan, and Mini Mob.
Combat status chips now cover shield, burn, poison, daze, root, stoneform, taunt, saplings, thorns, and windmarked targets.
Post-boss enemy upgrades add more pressure, including Stonefang execution damage, Rotwood poison, and Mirecaster shield gain.

Playtest Tools

Settings now include a password-locked Units tab for tuning HP and damage across playable units, enemies, Boss, and Mini Mob.
Stage Win and Stage Lose shortcuts were added to speed up playtest checks without replaying the full run every time.
Fullscreen controls, build stamps, and playtest build labels make browser and packaged test sessions easier to identify.
Audio controls were tightened into a live Sound tab with automatic saving for master, music, and SFX levels.

Save And Run State

Save data now carries deeper run state, including terrain, board surfaces, route choices, stage summaries, final stats, and panel collapse states.
Loaded units now restore status effects, shields, boss ultimate state, movement state, and special boss or mini mob properties.
Saving is blocked during dice and combat animations so a slot cannot capture a half-resolved turn.
Save summaries now report encounter, round, phase, route, result, and alive unit counts for faster slot decisions.

Mobile And Readability

The mobile turn card now explains the active unit's move, attack, heal, and Ultimate options more clearly.
The mobile pause hub now keeps overview, guide, treasure, rules, initiative, history, save, and settings views in one place.
Board sizing and HUD scaling were tuned for phone layouts, including landscape checks and steadier on-board labels.
The title, tutorial, settings, save, and patch notes screens now share a cleaner returning-player flow.

Archived Window March 28, 2026 - April 8, 2026 Open

Release Window

March 28, 2026 - April 8, 2026

This build added new stages, a full boss fight, relic paths, unit passives, custom sprites, mobile/web support, and a major interface overhaul for both desktop and phone playtesting.

Combat And Units

Combat rules were rebuilt around clearer hit, miss, critical hit, and critical fail bands.
Elemental Rune Knight, Wind Reaver, Arcanist, and Life Warden all received fixed stat tuning, clearer roles, and custom attack effects.
Life Warden was added as the fourth playable hero with healing, self-heal support, and Sapling relic interactions.
Critical failures now only deal self-damage instead of increasing the next hit requirement.

Enemy Side And AI

Enemy teams now randomize their non-boss lineups while playable heroes stay fixed.
AI target selection was improved so enemies re-evaluate after moving and attack valid targets instead of wasting turns.
Enemy units now use custom names, portraits, and themed attack effects like poison shots, boulder smashes, and blade swings.
Display colors were swapped so players are Blue and enemies are Red, which matches what most players expect.

Stage Progression

The run now spans six stages, with Treasure or Camp choice routing before Stage 3 and again before Stage 6, plus Boss 1 between the two loops.
Stage clear screens, route reward screens, defeat flow, and final victory flow were rebuilt to better explain what comes next.
Playable survivors gain Passives after stage clears, and those effects now show up in the team roster as status chips.
Treasure relics, Camp Site bonuses, end-of-run stats, and two save slots were added to support longer playtesting sessions.

Boss Encounters

Boss 1 now features Troll Chieftan, a stationary 2x2 boss with frontal zones, a range-based slam check, daze effects, and mini mobs.
Mini mobs now spawn from destroyed terrain, return back into terrain when defeated, and despawn when Troll Chieftan dies.
Troll Chieftan was upgraded to 40 HP and 5 damage, with stronger auto attacks and more marked frontal zones.
Boss warnings, danger tiles, mini mob behavior, and boss-specific sprites were all added for readability.

Board, UI, And Readability

The board art was rebuilt into grassy and sandy field tiles with terrain, line-of-sight blockers, tombstones, and stronger highlights.
The guide, treasure, and rules flows were rebuilt into cleaner card-style panels instead of dense text walls.
Initiative, history, stage overlays, dice-roll faceoff cards, HP labels, hover roster matching, and turn flow readability all received polish.
The new click-through tutorial was added to teach board highlights, buttons, unit roles, and the stage structure in smaller steps.

Audio, Web, And Mobile

Dice roll sounds, button hover sounds, stage fanfares, music rotation, and audio sliders were added and tuned.
A web/mobile test build was added for GitHub Pages and phone playtesting.
Mobile now has a pause hub, sharper board rendering, better touch-first layout decisions, and on-board HP readouts.
The title menu, settings flow, save flow, and browser test path were all updated for easier sharing with playtesters.

Opening Roll

Initiative Order

Each unit rolls a d20. Highest roll acts first, matching the main Dice & Dash stage opener.