Planned Release Date: August 2026

About This Game

Knucklebones is a dark tactical dice-builder on a snakes-and-ladders roguelike map. Roll, assign, and upgrade unique dice as you claw your way to the end.

Each turn, you roll your dice and commit them to action. Place them to attack enemies, block incoming damage, or resolve dangerous encounters. You will rarely have enough to answer every threat. What you choose to protect, and what you leave exposed, decides the outcome.

Build your dice pool as you progress. Upgrade dice, alter their faces, and trade for unique variants with powerful abilities. Every change reshapes your options, forcing you to decide what to keep and what to surrender.

Navigate a winding path that shifts as you venture through it. Step on a snake and fall into danger, reach a ladder to climb toward safety, and choose routes that balance risk against survival.

Combat is resolved by thresholds. Meet the required value and the threat is dealt with. Fall short, and you take the full consequence.

Runs are short and repeatable, but unforgiving. Success comes from how you assign what you roll, and what you are willing to risk to keep going.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

Knucklebones features stylised fantasy violence presented through dice, cards, creature encounters, and symbolic board-game combat. Players and enemies can lose health, suffer wounds, or be defeated, but violence is non-realistic and does not include gore or graphic injury.

The game includes dark folkloric imagery, bones, skulls, curses, wounds, hostile creatures, and an overall ominous atmosphere. Mature themes are presented in a restrained, illustrative style.