The player then moves their character across a dungeon map, where there are various encounters with monsters, treasure chests, health items, shops, and upgrade stations, along with exits to the next level.
The goal of each run is to reach the lowest level of the dungeon and defeat the boss.
[2] Terry Cavanagh announced Dicey Dungeons in May 2018, after about three months of prior development, with an in-progress free version available for users to try up to this point.
Cavanagh had planned to produce a commercial version of the game for release later in 2018.
[3][4] Dicey Dungeons is inspired by one of the first roguelike deck-builder games, Dream Quest.
[5] The game's art was created by Marlowe Dobbe, while its music was composed by Chipzel.
[6] Dicey Dungeons was released on 13 August 2019 for Microsoft Windows, macOS, and Linux personal computers,[5] and on 15 December 2020 for Nintendo Switch.