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Cheat Death

84% positive of 45 Steam reviews

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Released
2026
Steam Deck
Playable
Platforms
Steam

Made by GG Studio. Published by Polden Publishing.

About the game

Play dice poker with the Grim Reaper in a dark strategic roguelite. Build powerful poker hands from cursed dice, stack upgrades, rig the odds, sabotage Death, and survive deadly mini-games with your life on the line.

Tagged by players

  • Dice
  • Poker
  • Deckbuilding
  • Tabletop
  • Experimental
  • Board Game
  • Card Game
  • Surreal
  • Roguelite
  • Roguelike
  • Dark
  • Choices Matter

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What players say

  • Not recommended
    How am I supposed to start this off? I normally don't do negative reviews, but this one... it's special. As other people already said, the concept of dice poker is barely enough to carry the game loop, and the bosses all being hilariously easy doesn't help with that. Getting a flawless or unscathed run is not even hard; partially because this game was apparently balanced with a sledgehammer. Chaos-dice are…

    4.4 h played when written. 2 found it helpful.

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  • Recommended
    I do love the game and will play to get the levels up...BUT It seems to easy. Roguelights/roguelikes are supposed to be somewhat hard and the slowly grinded system helps runs. But this is EASY I am finding myself ending runs with 200+ gold and over 200 souls for your "ultimate". I mean I will play it depending how easy it is to get to higher levels if I find a grind is ahead of me I may stop because it is very…

    2.4 h played when written. 0 found it helpful.

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