I spent most of Steam Next Fest playing Balatro-likes—here's a list of
I've been playing the demo every day since, and you should too, but there's a bonus: if you like it, you don't need to wait for the full version. Dice A Million launched last week and it's on sale for another week.
Yeah, it's like Balatro, but with dice. You start with a few dice to roll and a score to beat each round, but it escalates incredibly quickly. Part of the reason is that you advance when you've run out of rolls, not when you've topped the required score—which means you can rack up a ton of extra points to spend between rounds.
In the early game of Balatro, you might buy a new joker, a couple consumables, maybe a voucher, but it's rare to have enough money to go nuts in the store until much later into a round. In Dice A Million, even in the early game, you'll quickly be drowning in cash and going on huge shopping sprees, buying new dice, adding cards (which can boost your rolls and enchant your dice), and covering your fingers in magic rings (which give you all sorts of bonuses).
The dice are really inventive, too. You begin with some lame ones, like dice with only three or four faces, but soon your hand will feel like an entire D&D set: D8s, D10s, D20s, and all sorts of surprises. My favorite die is one that has one of the other dice in the game as each of its faces. Once it's landed on one of those dice, it then rolls that die. So you're essentially rolling any of the possible dice in the game, which then gets rolled. That makes sense, right?