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Fight fantasy monsters by spinning a slot-machine reel for attacks and defenses, then shape your odds with upgrades between runs.
Released 24 Oct 2025
Spin Reels to Attack
Time Your Strikes
Choose Slot Symbols
A retro mini-roguelike inside a slot machine. Steady your blade - and spin!
Developed by Friedemann · Published by Future Friends Games
You are an adventurer battling creatures across a dark-fantasy world. Each turn, a slot-machine spin determines what your weapons, defenses, healing, and other symbols do.
Choose symbols for the reels and use coins between battles to buy or improve abilities and equipment. Some symbols offer timing checks that can strengthen their effects, while matching symbols can boost a result.
Victories earn coins to spend during a run, while defeats award tokens for permanent upgrades that carry into later attempts. Unlock additional abilities as you progress, then take on the high-score-focused Arena mode.
Players often enjoy the unusual slot-machine combat, finding the spins and quick battles engaging, and many praise the retro pixel art, animations, and sound design. Some appreciate its short, easy-to-pick-up format, while recurring criticisms point to limited content and replay value, few effective builds, and powerful combinations that can make later runs feel repetitive.
Steady your blade - and spin!
After my last game SUMMERHOUSE, I wanted to make something radically different. Still small, but faster, with numbers, fights and goblins!
The result is SLOTS & DAGGERS, a strange little blend of slot machine and fantasy RPG.
To make this game I combined a lot of things I deeply love – weird fantasy worlds, crude drawings of strange little guys, old school crunchy hiphop drum machines and addictive arcade games that go “PLING PLING PLING” as they spit out little coins – with classic roguelike mechanics.
The features of this game are:
Fun slot machine
Weird fantasy world
4-8 hour campaign
Crude drawings of strange little guys
Retro visuals
Crunchy hip hop drum machines
‘Egg arena’ high score mode for the truly determined
Addictive arcade gameplay that goes “pling” a lot
Numbers! Fights! Goblins!
As with SUMMERHOUSE, please keep in mind this game is a solo project - small, focused, and made with care. It’s meant to be short and sweet and doesn’t have the amount of content as games built by bigger teams over years, but I think it’s a fair deal!
I hope you have a good time with SLOTS & DAGGERS <3
Cheers,
Friedemann
| Platforms | Windows, macOS |
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| Achievements | 12 |
| Age ratings |
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| Controller required | No |
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