About This Demo

In Die Meeple, each run is a tactical journey through a board game world where dice, relics, and decisions matter just as much as luck.

Choose your hero and move from encounter to encounter across a procedurally generated map. Fight enemies inspired by chess pieces, read their intentions, choose your targets, make the most of your buffs and debuffs, then turn simple dice rolls into devastating combos.

Each die has its own faces: attack, defense, critical hits, special effects… It’s up to you to build a coherent set, upgrade your options, and find the synergies that can turn an impossible fight into a brilliant victory.

Here’s what awaits you on the board: dice to build, enemies to outsmart, relics to collect and a map full of surprises. Every run tells a different story, and every roll can change everything.

Every turn, you roll your dice and decide what to do with them. A sword deals damage, a shield protects you, a poison die wears the enemy down turn after turn. The result matters, but your rerolls and your targets matter just as much.

• Dice with very different roles: attack, shield, heal, area, piercing, lifesteal, poison, bleed, frozen…
• Limited rerolls: reroll that bad die now, or save your rerolls for a bigger turn?
• Milo Trotpack, the adventurer who trusts his dice: his first reroll each combat is free.

After every victory, pick your reward. Upgrade cards change your dice directly: a stronger face, an extra effect, a new way to play. Bit by bit, your deck becomes a machine built for your playstyle.

• Cards that transform your dice: Chain Strike, Riposte, Ricochet and many more.
• New dice to add: the Gambler’s Die for big hits, the Gemini Die, the Templar Die, the Barbarian Die…
• No two runs alike: the rewards change, and so do your builds.

Enemies show their intentions before they act: attack, shield, buff or debuff. You know what’s coming, so find the best answer with the dice luck gave you.

• Target wisely: take out the healer first, or hit the most dangerous one?
• Status effects that change everything: poison, bleed, weak, vulnerable, frozen, shield…
• Potions to save a turn: reroll, shield, poison, mirror potion…

Relics are permanent bonuses that change how you play your run. Some are simple and solid, others push you to build your whole deck around them.

• Jackpot Face: if all your dice show the same number, those faces gain +2 for the rest of the combat.
• Growing Fortune: one more reroll per turn, and even more as your deck grows.
• Bleeding Relic: +2 damage… but you lose HP after every combat.

Every run is played on a new map. At each fork, choose your path based on what you need: gold, rest, a new die or a real challenge.

• Fights and elites for the best rewards.
• Merchants, campfires and treasures to prepare what comes next.
• Unknown events: a lost meeple, a fairground host who is a little too friendly, a snoring chest…

Die Meeple takes place on a living game board, entirely hand-drawn. The pieces have character, the meeples have opinions, and every enemy has something to say before, during and after the fight.

• Enemies with personality: the Pawn, always first on the casualty list, Rooko the grumpy tower, Knighto who charges first and thinks never…
• A lighthearted tone, full of humor and small tactical disasters.