Dicevaders Wiki: All 10 Commanders, Challenges & Tips

Choose who leads the invasion

The 10 commanders

Start The Captain The Mothership Budge control: nudge dice where you need them and turn stockpiled Budge into Mult. Start Blob Girl Amalgram Mini-Dice flood: extra dice every turn that pile up into huge scoring turns. Start The Core From the Deep Kraken die: one special blue die that feeds XP to the artifact above it. 50.3% unlocked The Riftmaker Rift face Rift faces: one roll that counts as extra dice in every column that already has dice. 60.9% unlocked Whisperer Frugivore Apples: spawn them, pair them, destroy them for Mini-Dice and board-wide XP. 32.3% unlocked The Duchess The Art of War Chess army: a fourth row, shielded spawns and Queen, King, Bishop, Knight and Pawn units. 30% unlocked The Exalted Divine Touch Artifact leveling: every level-up on a low-level artifact fires it again. 51.3% unlocked Hex Prince Honeycomb Honey: every column starts with Honey that pays cash and artifact XP when Base Dice collect it. 31% unlocked Blood Beast Insatiable Curse Rage and BEAST MODE: destroy your own units to power up, then let the dice roll themselves. 15.4% unlocked The Overseer Convergence Two commanders at once: borrow the starter perks and unique items of two others, at the cost of faster-scaling target defense.

Unlock share = Steam players with that commander's unlock achievement on 2026-10-01. Full kits on the commander page.

How a turn plays out

Shop, build, roll, launch

1 Shop
Spend $ on units, artifacts and spells. Chrono restocks the shop; items can be frozen to keep them.
2 Build
Place invaders on the grid. Each column has an artifact slot on top and takes the dice of its face value.
3 Roll
Base Dice roll, plus any Mini-Dice. Spend Chrono to reroll or Budge to nudge a die into a better column.
4 Launch
Dice score the units in their column. Pairs, triples and quadruples set off combos; STR times Mult is your attack.
5 Beat the target
Total Attack has to reach the Target Defense within the turns shown on the right of the screen. Pilots add their own rules.

Built from the official store text, dev logs and in-game screenshots. Terms are explained in the glossary.

Earth had a good run

What is Dicevaders?

Dicevaders is a dice-based roguelike deckbuilder by Pengonauts, published by Playstack and available on PC and Mac (Steam), Nintendo Switch and Switch 2. Set in the StarVaders universe, you lead the alien invasion: draft units, place them on a grid and launch dice into their columns until your attack beats Earth's defense. It launched on September 29, 2026 with 10 commanders, 120 artifacts, 6 difficulties and a 13-mode Multiverse Campaign. Start with the commanders and the glossary.

How far players get

Story clear rates on Steam

97.8%

65.1%

46.4%

29.7%

17.3%

10%

0.3%

TutorialChapter 1Chapter 2Chapter 3Chapter 4Chapter 5Chapter 6Ultimate Earth

Share of Steam owners with each chapter achievement, read 2026-10-01. Only 2% have beaten Chapter 6 so far. Chapters and the true ending

Transmissions

Latest from the developers

MINOR 2026-09-30 1.0 Hotfix 1 fixes fonts not switching with the game language and Chinese/Japanese font issues; mult-number overlap and Russian font scaling are listed as known issues.
MAJOR 2026-09-29 Dicevaders launches on Steam, Nintendo Switch and Switch 2 at $14.99 / £12.99 / €14.99, with 10% off for the first two weeks.
META 2026-09-29 Dev log #10 reveals The Overseer, who merges two other commanders' starter perks.
META 2026-09-20 The developers start a commander-a-day dev log countdown, beginning with The Captain.
MINOR 2026-09-10 Demo Patch 1.0 adds Traditional Chinese and bigger tooltips for Steam Deck before the demo is retired.

Field manual

Every page on this wiki

Guides

Dicevaders Beginner Guide: 12 Tips for Your First Runs — How dice pick columns, the $3 shop, skipping turns and Hearts
Dicevaders Hidden Portal: What It Does and How to Trigger It — The artifact that only fires when something else triggers it
Dicevaders Gluttony and Peashooter: The Combo Explained — Two artifacts reviewers single out, and how they work together

More guides

How to Unlock Every Commander in Dicevaders — Which chapter clears unlock which commanders
Dicevaders vs StarVaders: How the Two Games Connect — Same studio and universe, opposite sides, very different games

FAQ

What kind of game is Dicevaders?

A dice-based roguelike deckbuilder by Pengonauts, published by Playstack. You lead an alien invasion from the StarVaders universe: buy units, place them on a six-column grid, then launch dice into the columns to score until your attack beats Earth's defense.

Is it Dicevaders or Dice Vaders?

Dicevaders, one word, on Steam and the Nintendo eShop. Early playtest posts wrote it as DiceVaders, and the logo splits it over two lines as DICE / VADERS, which is why both spellings get searched.

Is Dicevaders like Balatro?

Reviewers compare the two more than any other game: both are score-chasing roguelikes where Mult turns small numbers into huge ones. Dicevaders adds dice placement on a grid and commanders, and it launched with a bundle that pairs it with Balatro on Steam.

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How this wiki is kept

Dicevaders Wiki is an independent, unofficial fan resource for Dicevaders players — not affiliated with Pengonauts.

How we verify: Commander perks and item text come from the ten official Steam dev logs, unlock rates from Steam's global achievement stats, and every table says when it was read.
Update cadence: After each Steam patch note we recheck the commander, artifact and challenge pages; while the game is new the achievement rates are re-read every week.
What we don't do: No guessed tier list. Until real ranking data exists we describe what each commander does instead of inventing an order.

Dicevaders Wiki: Commanders, Challenges & Tips