Pengonauts has two games in its catalog now: StarVaders and its spin-off DiceVaders, released September 30, 2026 for Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, and PC by publisher Playstack. DiceVaders costs 1,800 yen and carries a 10 percent launch discount for two weeks.
Pengonauts is the Montreal studio behind StarVaders, the tactical roguelike that holds an Overwhelmingly Positive rating on Steam. Its latest release is DiceVaders, a spin-off of that game that hands the StarVaders universe to the enemy side, where the previous game's pilots appear as late-stage bosses rather than heroes. Playstack, the publisher behind Balatro, released DiceVaders on September 30, 2026 for Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, and PC. The game costs 1,800 yen and carries a 10 percent launch discount for two weeks.
DiceVaders is a roguelike dice game. The basic rule is rolling three six-sided dice and activating the effects of the columns matching the results. The player is an alien commander who places units on a grid and rolls dice to raise an attack score. Matching die numbers such as pairs or triples triggers combos, and items allow rerolls or cheats on bad rolls.
The design holds the dice themselves fixed while everything built around them compounds. Units and artifacts in those columns chain effects together, so early scores of a few thousand can reach tens of millions in the late game. Dice remain the core randomness throughout, and reroll resources stay limited. The roster has more than 60 unit types, 120 artifact types, and 10 commanders with different synergies, and the game supports 10 languages, including Japanese, English, Korean, and Simplified Chinese.
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DiceVaders is a roguelike dice game from Pengonauts, the Montreal studio behind StarVaders. The basic rule is rolling three six-sided dice and activating the effects of the columns matching the results. Units and artifacts in those columns chain effects together, so early scores of a few thousand can reach tens of millions in the late game. Dice remain the core randomness throughout, and reroll resources stay limited.
Playstack released Dicevaders on September 30, 2026 for Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, and PC. The game costs 1,800 yen and carries a 10 percent launch discount for two weeks. Developer Pengonauts built Dicevaders as a spin-off of StarVaders, the tactical roguelike that holds an Overwhelmingly Positive rating on Steam. In Dicevaders, the player is an alien commander who places units on a grid and rolls dice to raise an attack score. Matching die numbers such as pairs or triples triggers combos, and items allow rerolls or cheats on bad rolls. The roster has more than 60 unit types, 120 artifact types, and 10 commanders with different synergies. Each stage ends with pilots from StarVaders defending Earth. Supported languages total 10, including Japanese, English, Korean, and Simplified Chinese.