Indie gaming's only three genres have inevitably converged into grimdark Balatro with a whimsical egg idiot

Slots & Daggers is astir "numbers, fights and goblins!"

Whimsy, grimdark, and gambling? And a roguelike to boot?! In my 2025 indie game? Eh, spell connected then. It looks neat. The trailer beneath features a desolate, hellish country called "The Pläins öf Päin" (umlauts mine) inhabited by lone ovum idiot named 'eggo'. A curse connected the ovum idiot and his cracked shell, and a curse connected the satellite for allowing this benignant of tomfoolery to proliferate unchallenged.

Slots & Daggers is by Friedemann, whose erstwhile crippled was the Katharine-approved tiny townbuilder. Summerhouse. "After my past game, I wanted to marque thing radically different," says Friedemann. "Something faster, with numbers, fights and goblins!". Angry caffeinated mathematics goblins, you say? Here are immoderate different features from Steam.

• Fun slot machine
• Weird phantasy world
• Crude drawings of unusual small guys
• Retro visuals
• Crunchy hep hop drum machines
• Addictive arcade gameplay that goes “pling” a lot
• Numbers! Fights! Goblins!

"To marque this crippled I combined a batch of things I profoundly emotion – weird phantasy worlds, crude drawings of unusual small guys, aged schoolhouse crunchy hiphop drum machines and addictive arcade games that spell “PLING PLING PLING” arsenic they spit retired small coins – with classical roguelike mechanics," says Friedemann. They besides pass that this is simply a solo project, and arsenic specified "doesn’t connection 80+ hours of contented similar games developed by bigger teams."

As delighted by some the crunchy drum machines and chucklesome weirdos arsenic I am, I bash despair a spot that anyone feels the request to avert imaginable gamer rage by clarifying that their task doesn't past arsenic agelong arsenic a CRPG. This isn't a flimsy connected the developer, of course. Going by a illustration of 1 (me), virtually everyone who has ever played a videogame earlier is simply a monolithic idiot, and you can't beryllium excessively careful. Can't hold for the enraged Steam reappraisal astatine precisely 79 hours of playtime.