StarVaders is a tactical roguelike on Steam with an Overwhelmingly Positive rating, and the setting has been extended into a spin-off, DiceVaders, developed by Pengonauts and released by Playstack on September 30, 2026 for Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, and PC.
StarVaders is a tactical roguelike that holds an Overwhelmingly Positive rating on Steam. Pengonauts, the Montreal studio behind it, built the spin-off DiceVaders, which publisher Playstack released on September 30, 2026 for Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, and PC at 1,800 yen with a 10 percent launch discount lasting two weeks. The supported languages total 10, including Japanese, English, Korean, and Simplified Chinese.
DiceVaders moves the setting to the enemy side. The player is an alien commander who places units on a grid and rolls dice to raise an attack score. Pairs, triples, and other matching die numbers trigger 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, so the earlier game's heroes appear as late-stage bosses.
The design keeps the dice themselves fixed while everything built around them compounds. 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.
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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.