Dicevaders Reviews: What 183 Steam Players Say
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What reviewers praise
- ✅ Build variety and strategy, and the need to pivot between builds (33 of 128 positive English reviews)
- ✅ Balatro-style number-go-up scoring with dice placement (29 mentions)
- ✅ Ties to StarVaders: same universe, now from the invaders' side (27 mentions)
- ✅ Addictive one-more-run loop and huge numbers (18 mentions each)
- ✅ Ten commanders that each play differently, plus the cute art and music
- ✅ Demo and playtest progress carried into the full game
What reviewers complain about
- ❌ Late game can get samey, with a few artifacts (Peashooter and Gluttony are named) far stronger than the rest
- ❌ One screen for the whole run; pilots are a line of text rather than a fight scene
- ❌ Too many modifiers and too much RNG for some StarVaders fans
- ❌ Wanted quality-of-life: trigger counts, clearer tooltips, the compendium during a run
- ❌ Chapter 6 difficulty: players called the Tippy and The Star fights too hard, and the developer has promised a rebalance in the first patch
- ❌ One report of a wiped save file
Why there is no score here
We do not score games we have not played through ourselves. Instead this page summarises the Steam reviews: we read all 132 English reviews available on October 1, 2026 and counted how often each theme came up.
Sources: Steam review summary for app 3917700 (all languages and English, read 2026-10-01); English review texts; Steam forum thread on Chapter 6 difficulty with the developer's reply of September 30, 2026.
The numbers, with sources
| Signal | Value | When | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam rating (all languages) | Very Positive, 173 of 183 positive (94.5%) | 2026-10-01 | Steam review summary |
| Steam rating (English) | Very Positive, 128 of 132 positive (97.0%) | 2026-10-01 | Steam review summary |
| Players online | 733 | 2026-10-01 | Steam current players API |
| Median playtime in English reviews | 5.4 hours | 2026-10-01 | Steam review data |
| Reviewers who mention the demo or playtest | 35 of 132 | 2026-10-01 | English review texts |
| Steam Deck | Verified | 2026-10-01 | Steam Deck compatibility report |
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