But this isn’t true of Lost in Random’s gameplay, as the worst penalty for a bad roll is around 10 seconds of the player’s time. “Every roll of the dice matters, but not every roll counts,” claims Seemore, the die-restoring pipnician who Even befriends. But as you find a deck that works, such as pairing the sluggish but powerful Hammer with a time-slowing vortex, battles become less random and more rote. At first, you’ll be overly relying on straight weapon cards, but as you increase your deck-and the number of overall pips on Dicey-you’ll be placing hazards and inflicting direct damage and using cheats to ensure better future rolls. Once you’ve drawn at least one card, Even can roll Dicey, and then use the number of pips on Dicey’s upright face to summon those cards in the Dicemension. Even, armed only with a slingshot, must snap crystals off her foes so that Dicey can hoover them up, converting them into cards. That’s a frustrating turn of events, because early on, while you’re still acquiring and testing out new cards, combat is rather enjoyable. There’s a sense of wonder to Even and Dicey’s wander, from the twisty streets of the Upside Downtown to the board-game battle arenas where Even squares off against the Queen’s chess-themed robots.
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The game is at its strongest during its first full area, during which Even stumbles upon a living, breathing, and quite forbidden dice that she names Dicey and together they set out to figure out the strange rules of Twotown, where every citizen has a split personality, including the mayor, whose rhyming Royam alter ego is a menace. And among those children is Odd, who’s cruelly separated from her sister Even when she rolls a six.
On their 12th birthday, every child of Random rolls the dice, which determines whether they will be destined to a life of struggle in Onecroft, one of war in Threedom, or one of luxury in Sixtopia. But Lost in Random’s consistently strong plotting doesn’t quite make up for the increasingly lackluster gameplay of what proves to be an overlong adventure, especially during its redundant and rigidly linear tail end.Īfter being destroyed by civil war, the kingdom of Random was left to the mercy of the gaunt, white-masked Queen and the roll of a mysterious black dice. Its gameplay also smartly keys the story’s chance-based conceit to the element of luck that plays into the hybrid of dice-, card-, and action-based combat. Swedish indie developer Zoink Games’s Lost in Random benefits from the richness of its setting, even when it’s at the service of reductive gothic effects.
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