Pair A Dice

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Pair A Dice is a single player and multiplayer action game. It was developed by Guckles and was released on July 31, 2025. It received mostly positive reviews from players.

Pair A Dice is a luck-driven survival game where you roll dice to summon items, enemies, and bosses, then craft tools to overcome island challenges. Collect special gems from foes to trigger epic boss fights alongside robot allies. Enjoy intense PvE and cooperative gameplay with up to four players, featuring unique upgrades and voice chat.

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Audience ScoreBased on 272 reviews

gameplay9 positive mentions

graphics3 negative mentions

The game offers a fun and unique concept of combining gambling and crafting, making it enjoyable to play with friends.
Despite its low-quality graphics, the gameplay is engaging and provides a good mix of randomness and strategy.
It's a free game that can entertain players for a few hours, especially in a multiplayer setting.

The crafting system is confusing and poorly designed, making it frustrating for players to navigate and utilize effectively.
The game suffers from performance issues, including high GPU usage and frequent crashes, which detracts from the overall experience.
Content is locked behind paid DLC, which feels misleading for a game that is marketed as free, leading to concerns about its value.

gameplay
33 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The gameplay of the game is characterized by a fun yet flawed experience, with a core mechanic of rolling dice for resource management that some players find engaging, while others criticize it for being convoluted and lacking depth. The crafting system is particularly contentious, described as frustrating and poorly designed, which detracts from the overall enjoyment. Despite its creative concept and potential for fun, many players feel the game suffers from a lack of polish and clarity, making it challenging to fully appreciate its mechanics.
- “Once you learn the mechanics, it's a fun game with friends; it has a slow start but is funny.”
- “The core mechanic is easy to understand: roll dice, get resources or threats, and craft your way to survival.”
- “It's clear the developer has a strong sense of what makes a game fun—taking a basic mechanic and layering in enough complexity and challenge to keep players engaged.”
- “The developer chose not to do the job of a real game developer and create meaningful bespoke levels, narrative-based gameplay progression, and so on.”
- “The crafting mechanic is frustrating and the gameplay itself is boring.”
- “There’s no real sense of immersion, and it’s not clear what your goals are or how the mechanics work.”
optimization
15 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The game's optimization has received mixed reviews, with many players reporting high GPU usage and performance issues, particularly given its cartoonish graphics. While some users experienced smooth gameplay without crashes, others noted significant stuttering and concerns about the game's overall optimization, suggesting it feels more like a pre-release version. Despite some developers addressing performance problems, optimization remains a significant concern for many players.
- “Very impressive, entertaining, and well optimized, especially since it's free.”
- “Runs smoothly, no major crashes.”
- “Performance-wise, there were no stutters or crashes in my short time with it.”
- “It also is a nightmare in optimization, since the instant I opened the game, my GPU's fans started going full blast.”
- “I am just surprised to see that this game I have waited for a long time is just poorly optimized.”
- “Unoptimized and unintuitive.”
humor
13 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The humor in the game is characterized by its silly concepts, funny lore, and amusing mechanics, particularly in the context of gambling and luck-based survival. While many players find the game enjoyable and funny, especially when played with friends, some critiques highlight that the humor can wear thin due to gameplay shortcomings and a lack of variety. Overall, the game offers a lighthearted experience with moments of genuine amusement, despite its flaws.
- “Funny dice, goofy gambling game.”
- “Once you learn the mechanics, fun game with friends, slow start but funny.”
- “Fun little game with very funny silly lore, a little bare bones but it's free, can't complain about that in this economy!”
graphics
13 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The graphics of the game have been widely criticized for their low-quality, low-poly 3D design, which many players find unappealing and indicative of a pre-release state. Despite the vibrant visuals and playful tone that may appeal to casual gamers, the high GPU usage raises concerns about optimization. Overall, the visuals are seen as a significant drawback that detracts from the gaming experience.
- “Its vibrant visuals and playful tone make it enjoyable for casual sessions, though some randomness can be frustrating.”
- “Very confused on the negative reviews; people need to keep in mind that this is still a very new early access game and that there is going to be a lot of things that either need fixing or changing, but having said that the crafting should be reworked and more graphics settings may be nice.”
- “In terms of visuals, this features fairly low quality low poly 3D graphics which will deter a lot of gamers, understandably.”
- “Gaming is a visual medium, and while some developers struggle with creating high quality visuals, failing to do so is a disservice to gamers.”
- “However, for a game with such simplistic graphics, the fact that it was using close to 100% of my GPU is quite concerning.”
stability
4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The game is plagued by numerous bugs and stability issues, leading to a frustrating experience for players. Many reviewers note that the controls are unintuitive and feel sloppy, suggesting that the game was rushed and requires significant improvements before it is enjoyable. Overall, it is recommended to wait for updates before playing.
- “Game is jank as hell and very buggy, with unintuitive controls that feel sloppy to use.”
- “Very buggy experience; you can tell the game was rushed out. Wait at least a year before playing it yourself.”
- “Game is very buggy and needs a lot of work.”
grinding
4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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Players generally find the grinding aspect of the game enjoyable initially, but it quickly becomes tedious and repetitive, especially when aiming for 100% completion or trying to reach the final bosses. The grind is often exacerbated by frustrating RNG mechanics and a lack of engaging crafting systems, leading to a less enjoyable experience overall.
- “Fun for the first couple of hours, but it got boring grinding for the 100%. I'll be real.”
- “Fun for a few hours, but it gets grindy trying to get back to the last boss or two, though.”
- “It's a little tedious.”
story
4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The story is criticized for being shallow and lacking engagement, revolving around a simplistic premise of saving robot friends from a meteor through luck-based mechanics. While the initial concept is intriguing and humorous, it ultimately fails to provide a compelling narrative or gameplay depth, leaving players wanting more in terms of story development and interactive elements.
- “This game has a really strong concept of luck-based survival with a funny opening to the story, but overall falls short in gameplay.”
- “I pushed through a little thinking this might be a hidden gem, but the story of 'saving your dead robot friends you met like 3 seconds ago from a random meteor by rolling dice for the fetish of the dice gods' isn't really keeping me.”
- “I'm not a huge story guy either, but there's little gameplay to latch onto, and the stuff that is there is a bad crafting mechanic and gambling for rocks or sticks.”
- “I would like to see more fun movement options, different weapons, better ways of clearing clutter off the island, and potentially a system that lets you target specific story-based crafting materials.”
music
3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The music in the game is highly praised, with players describing it as an absolute banger that enhances the experience, especially during boss fights. The overall vibe is chill, complemented by fun and catchy tunes that add to the game's quirky charm.
- “Pretty chill game, absolute banger music!”
- “Funny little game, great music and silly robots.”
- “Would recommend turning up the music for the boss fights.”
- “Pretty chill game, but the music could use more variety.”
monetization
3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
67%
33%
The monetization aspect of the game has received mixed feedback; while some players initially perceived it as a free-to-play title with microtransactions, they found it enjoyable overall. However, concerns were raised about early monetization choices and a lack of polish, which detracted from the overall experience.
- “Since many were typing 'gamba life' in the reviews, I thought it was a free-to-play Minecraft knockoff with microtransactions in it, but no, it's a fun game.”
- “There’s an idea here that could become something genuinely enjoyable, but the lack of polish, unclear mechanics, and early monetization choices really drag the experience down.”
emotional
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The emotional aspect of the game is not explicitly addressed in the provided text, which focuses on crafting mechanics rather than emotional engagement or narrative depth. Therefore, it lacks insights into how the game evokes feelings or connects with players on an emotional level.
atmosphere
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The atmosphere in the game is generally considered weak, and while certain elements may not ruin the experience, they do little to enhance it.
- “It's not game-breaking, but it certainly doesn't help the atmosphere, which is already lacking.”