Ribbit Rogue Launches on Steam with Dice Forging and Universal Criticals
Ribbit Rogue's hook is treating dice as raw material: players swap faces at the forge and merge duplicates, so a build is assembled rather than found.
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King Krab Games released Ribbit Rogue on Steam on September 4. The turn-based roguelike has players customize dice as a frog adventurer fighting through a rot-corrupted swamp. Each turn offers seven dice from the pool, with four chosen and rolled. A universal critical system doubles damage, shield, and healing effects. The game is on sale at 20 percent off, priced at 1080 yen.
Development ran more than five years, and the game began on Playdate. King Krab Games released Ribbit Rogue for the crank handheld in April 2025, and the Sim/Strategy category at the Playdate Community Awards later nominated it. The Steam version followed, with a demo published in March and updated through May, adding a second area, 40 relics, boss relics, and new dice.
Combat runs on a pool capped at ten dice. Each turn offers seven, and the player rolls four. Faces carry attack, shield, heal, and buff effects, plus special tags: Quick, Slow, and Twin, which trigger when a die is used first, last, or twice. Criticals double any action, including defense and recovery.
The forge lets players lay two dice side by side and swap faces between them. Duplicate dice merge and strengthen, up to three times per face. A run carries more than 120 relics, 30 enemy types, six bosses, three playable characters, and a high-difficulty Swamp Depth setting.
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