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Build a dice pool as one of six Oracles, balancing purification and corruption to survive battles and cleanse a star system.
Released 21 Sep 2023
Build a Dice Pool
Forge Die Faces
Turn Corruption to Power
Astrea is a DICE-deck-building roguelike that flips the script on deckbuilders by using dice instead of cards and a unique dual “damage” system: Purification vs Corruption. Build a dice pool strong enough to purify Astrea's out-of-control corruption and save the Star System.
Developed by Little Leo Games · Published by Akupara Games
In a star system scarred by corruption, you play as one of six Oracles setting out to finish the battle their predecessors began. Each Oracle has distinct dice and abilities, shaping how you approach a run.
Travel along branching routes, fight enemies, and visit events to gain dice, blessings, and support Sentinels. Build and refine a pool of dice rather than a card deck: each die has six faces, and you can choose among safer, balanced, or riskier options, then alter faces to tune your results.
Combat revolves around purification and corruption. Purification damages enemies or heals you, while corruption damages you or heals enemies; taking corruption can also activate abilities called Virtues tied to your health. Rerolls and ways to influence enemy dice offer some control over uncertain outcomes, and difficulty levels let you take on tougher runs.
Players often praise the dice-based take on run-based deckbuilding, especially the opposing purification-and-corruption mechanics and the choices they create around risk and health. Reviews also value the distinct Oracles, varied builds, and art and music. Some find the many dice effects and symbols demanding to track, while others criticize the role of luck, difficulty spikes, or repeated encounters.
Astrea is a DICE-deck-building roguelike that flips the script on deckbuilders by using dice instead of cards and a unique dual “damage” system: Purification vs Corruption. Build a dice pool strong enough to purify Astrea's out-of-control corruption and save the Star System.
• Unique dual “damage” system: Purification vs Corruption - In Astrea there is a new type of “damage” system. Purification can be used to damage enemies or heal yourself. On the other hand, corruption can be used to damage yourself or heal the enemies. Pacify enemies through Purification, or Corrupt yourself to unleash abilities that help tip the scales.
• Dynamic Health Bar system - With skills attached to your health bar, you can take Corruption to enable these skills and unleash powerful abilities. But be careful, if you take too much Corruption you will be consumed by it.
• Not cards, but dice! - Build a dice pool that fits your playstyle. Choose from over 350 dice and three dice types; reliably safe, perfectly balanced, or powerfully risky. A dice type system designed with high-risk, high-reward in its core.
• Customize your dice - Forge your fate by editing die faces with new actions, tipping the odds of powerful results into your favor.
• Choose from Six Brave Oracles - Each possessing their own unique dice sets, abilities, and playstyles. From ingenious spellcasters to brutish berserkers, whether you like beating the opponent into submission or outsmarting them with clever plays, there’s an oracle for you.
• 20 Upgradeable Support Sentinels - Enchanted constructs that offer supportive dice rolls making them reliable companions in the heat of battle.
• Uncover Over 170 Modifying Blessings - Imbue your Oracle with unique passives yielding potent effects that change up your fundamental tactics. Choose between Star Blessings, passive effects with lower power, or Black Hole Blessings, powerful passive effects with a drawback.
• More than 20 random events - Find mysterious locations that can change the course of your run.
• Manipulate your enemies and control your fate - Enemies attack using their own die, making it possible for you to manipulate their die to change their intent.
• 16 Difficulty Levels - Customize your experience using difficulty levels to test all your abilities.
Long ago - when ancient ruins were once flourishing civilizations and their populace lived in idyllic bliss - a mystical star governed all. Loyal disciples, called Six-Sided Oracles, were blessed by their star, granting them the strength to seal away the gift of heavenly bodies within mystic relics.
All was perfect and harmonious, until that one fateful day - The Crimson Dawn Cataclysm. A ferocious inferno sundered down from the sky, engulfing the entirety of the star system, crumbling the foundations of their society and corrupting the souls of the weak-willed. The disciples of the star were lost to the chaos - their creations scattered across a vast world of ruin. Could there still exist those who were capable of wielding their power?
Eons later, descendants of the Six-Sided Oracles embark on a journey to finish the failed battle that their predecessors started and save their star system.
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Steam Deck | Playable |
| Achievements | 80 |
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| Controller support | PlayStation, Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| Demo | View demo on Steam |
| DLC / extras | 2 listed on Steam |
| Metacritic | 85/100 View on Metacritic |
