Last updated on December 12th, 2025 at 12:42 pm
Dicey Elementalist – Board Game Review
Dicey Elementalist is a Board/Roleplaying game from 兆万 林, first launched in 25th April 2021.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 4,979+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Dicey Elementalist Stand Out
Inspired by a popular dice game called Yahtzee.
- Five dice are rolled three times, keep the best score.
On this basis.
Add some deck building
Add some random variables (Rogue-lite)
Add some unique heroes
Add some different game mechanics
And…Here it comes! The Dice Master!
THE RULE IS SIMPLE
Light up the elements of a card required to play, bingo!
If you can't light the card, the card will be unusable = useless!
So
Be sure to build your deck reasonably well with your "brilliant strategic"!
This Board game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Dicey Elementalist is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 10th September 2025
Recent improvements include:
New Update:
Fixed issues related to game save upload and download;
Optimized some aspects of the game experience;
Fixed some known issues.
Download & Availability
Dicey Elementalist is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Dicey Elementalist on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
This game was amazing, but there was one thing that we didnt like. The stealthy and the fearless were the only cards you didnt have to spend money for.
We love the concept of the game Im absolutely addicted to it. BUT we have one big issue. A lot of their sounds Ive noticed are exact sounds you hear in a pc game called World of Warcraft. The Phantom boss sounds exactly the same as the phantoms attacks in WoW. The little dice game with the book and prisoners, whenever you win its a similar sound to looting in WoW. The ice damage sound in this game is the same as it is for a certain spell in WoW. They have some of their own sounds, but most are from WoW.
In an age of micro-transactions negatively over saturating the entire gaming industry, this game is a breath of fresh air on mobile. Yes there are some paid elements, but we guarantee you can spend countless hours playing this game without spending a dime. A simple and unique concept utilizing both dice magic and deck building. We love it.
Absolutely amazing game; fun and challenging.
Easy to understand, but challenging and highly replayable. Absolutely loved it. Theres a lot of content already, but Id happily pay for more.
Adds but not required. We dont know why more games dont do this but it is the perfect mobile experience. They have ads that double your rewards or let you continue your run but never shove them in your face. Its a win win. Im not forced to watch any ads but the company also makes money.
We have finally beaten every character on every difficulty with every medal. It took awhile, but Im proud. There are a few cheap tricks you learn while playing the game. Ill let you guys figure it out! All we have left is to beat the secret elementals with the correct characters. One thing Id like the Devs to do is have a cheaper option to remove ads. We would pay 5 dollars, but 20 is too steep. We dont even want the exp boost. (Even though at this point progress is slowing down a lot for the exp bar.).
Been playing this game for a few years now and we absolutely love it. The art and character designs are sick and the gameplay is super unique. If you like strategy games youll love this game. Currently have 25 hours () and just beat the mad king. Tried fighting the elemental rock final boss but hes too OP even with a stacked deck like we had. Not sure how anyone can beat him. Anyways, download this game you wont be disappointed.
UPDATE: This doesnt change our score, but one other nit we have for the devs is that we wish there was a way to pay to remove ads that did not include speeding up the game. At the moment, you cant buy remove ads in the store without also getting a perk that increases the experience you receive. Id rather not progress faster since its a fun game, so Id love to see that option. As our previous review below says, the ada arent bad though so we live without. We dont usually write reviews, but wanted to let the dev know this is a great game. Title says it all. You dont often find a game that isnt ruined by ads, but this one has a fine balance. Theyre there, but arent built into a grind like many other games. Game itself is pretty addictive. After a few hours of playing, we can say that Ill spend many more. There are a few gripes, like sometimes you can create a build that creates a stalemate with some enemies. We believe that is part of the game though. It shows the builds weakness and it allows you to exit the fight early anyways. Hope more games like this are made in the future.
We find ourselves playing this game often. Not too ad-ful, either. Nice work.
We love this game. Id love to be able to play from our pc or steamdeck. Please put it there too. Its WAY better now that the adds were moved to the bottom. We stopped playing for a bit when they were at the top because they were in the way of key text.
This is by far our favorite rouge-like deck builders! We honestly wish the would have let you buy everything upfront. It does allow for more F2P players to access it.
Was looking a roguelike/roguelite in the same vein as Slay the Spire, and this game is ABSOLUTELY perfect. Fun game mechanics, completely unique play styles between the 6 characters, and the perfect balance of difficulty, strategy and RNG. Theres TONS of content to play through and you get a pretty hefty portion of it for free, with very few ads, and most of them skippable. You can unlock the rest the playable characters for a few shekels, which is more than worth it. Ive spent way more for games that we dont even play for half as long as this one. Went out of our way to write this review after our most insane run yet. THIS is a mobile game done proper! 10/10.
We liked this game, a lot, dont get us wrong, we just wish it could be better. It feels lacking in a way that we cant quite put our finger on, but it is still a fun and full game. We like it.
We really wish there was another way to unlock characters, other than paying money. We completed the two characters that we are given for free, and now feel like theres nothing to pull us back to play more.
Charged us $21 for a character pack that said it was $6. Would be more upset if this wasnt a great game.
Ive had this game since it came out and there were only a few characters, now every time you go into a new world its a forced ad no longer optional, we dislike that. Used to love this game. Plus we have all characters bought and we keep getting that pop up for 34.99 to buy all the characters. We do not need that we already own them. Game is still fun, but less now that it has forced ads.
We would consider purchasing a pack in the game but we need to know that the game will keep updating and providing support and content. It doesnt seem like so in the current state. We also see bugs where the challenges for gems in the main menu are popping up in Chinese. It is, unfortunately, not a finished game. And they wont finish it or keep improving upon it. They are continuing to make money off it, tho.
Ill start by saying that we like the game. However, Im writing this review because it is difficult to enjoy that game due to implementation of the ads and the high price of removal, and the developer deserves this feedback. The ad experience wont be unfamiliar to those that play mobile games, and it ISNT as bad as some; very few ads are strictly required (when progressing between levels every 10-15 minutes). But components of the game that feel like theyre what the core experience is balanced around are accessible only through watching extremely long ads that require you to wait and tap a combination of Close, X, Done, or >> at least three times. For instance, random pixies in front of doors that over a little boon on spinning a wheel are ad-gated. Rerolling more than once in mini-game rooms? Ad-gated. Want to claim both treasures from something? Ad-gated. You can purchase the ability to turn off the ads for a whopping 20 USD ($35 if youd like the full progression awards and more than two character to pick from). We usually like games that give you the option of paying a lump sum or watching ads, but a) this is an unusually high price and b) what you purchase really begs the question of how the game is balanced. Is it balanced for playing without paying $20+? If it is, paying to take the ads away makes the game easier and probably a little less fun. Is it balanced for purchasing the key to pass the ad-gates? If so, youre going to have to spend a LOT of time watching ads to avoid paying that $20+. Its a shame mainly because, as we said at the beginning, theres legitimately a good game here. The art is characterful and we love it. Gameplay is addictive in a good way. Characters have meaningful differences in play experience. We want to like this. We just wish we could pay a more reasonable amount to remove the ads, and not have to worry about lowering the difficulty if we do so.
Ive had to guess how many battles play out because the screen cut out, or little island the iPhone has gets in the way of the relic descriptions that enemies in the castles have. We cant see. How can we effectively pursue any strategy when we cant see whats attacking us behind the scenes lol.
Super fun concept, but as soon as you get into higher level play, your strategies and items dont matter at all. The game kind of stops rewarding you for playing well.
The games UI is clearly not optimized for iPhone 15. The camera blocks the enemy information that displays during battle. Otherwise, it seems like a fun game, similar to the ones made by the developer of Card Thief.
We cant believe some of these ads are 2min 30sec.
The game is fun, but it blatantly cheats towards the end at harder levels. (clearly skipping rolls, giving you weaker cards on purpose, Enemies seem to match up perfectly against your build, etc) The optional ads for buffs are not working and every time we open the game we keep getting bombarded with a $35 offer.
We enjoyed this game for a bit. Completed 5 increasingly difficult runs before It became repetitive and the rng difficulty becomes a paywall. It is designed to manipulate you into spending money and the cost is not worth it. Try Wildfrost.
The game is fun for awhile until you see the same monsters over and over. Also the RNG is not random at the higher challenges with the odds stacked heavily against you on the rolls(tracked rolls over multiple characters and challenges).
All we wanted was a free game we could play in queue or to keep us busy when we had a few minutes of downtime. Instead, we found a masterpiece of a game that can keep us entertained for much, MUCH longer. The ads arent annoying, the gameplay comes naturally, and the art is gorgeous. Never thought Id wanna pay money for a free game, but the developers really deserve the support.
We would give 4.5 if we could our only complaint are the prices for removing ads is a little steep but we cant complain too much cause the game is free.
A little pricey, wish there was a way to remove ads for less than 20 dollars.
The leveling is way too slow like we wont even get a single level for doing a single dungeon for 30 minutes. A lot of the dice rolling is obviously rigged because if you go to find one of those dice game rooms where you go against the other dude, it will give him 4-5 of the same die in a row multiple times. To check this you can see the roll then close the game and it will go back before the roll which shows that its usually the same number but a different element. This game is also super pay to win because there is 1 starting character and you can buy 1 with in game currency but the rest cost money. Greed is what ruins mobile games fr.
We were so happy with this game we bought the character bundle and now we get ads almost every 3rd or 4th room we enter and on resuming a dungeon almost like it is forcing us to need to purchase the no ad please fix we watch ads for the wheels and to reset after losing and dont understand how that cant be enough.
Amazing game but after beating first level game will not let us enter dungeon without crashing.
We almost never write positive reviews if Im being honest. We usually only review a game if the developer is exceptionally greedy and we want others to know about it. This is one of the best games we ever played Ive never seen anything like it, its super addictive and is honestly better than any game we have on PC right now. Its good enough to want to play it in your free time rather than just playing it to kill time. Do yourself a favor and play, we already recommended the game to all our friends lol. Cannot stress enough this game is amazing.
The game is great, but there are way too many ads. Please sell an ad free unlock. Id be happy to pay $5 for it.
The app is a really fun and creative rougelike. The unlocks from completing campaigns and the artifacts provide neat ways to fiddle with builds. Their is a minor problem with not being able to unlock all the characters with gems which pay walls new experiences but we suggest just playing the first two characters campaigns to very hard setting then deciding if your willing to spend money on the others. Theirs a lot of fun to be had here and we hope they see success in future releases.
First, this game itself is amazing because you can play it without being connected to the internet. Its a very simple, well done, fun game. We like to play this on our flights. Secondly this is what summoned us to write our first 5* review in the App Store because we played a decent amount of mobile games with optional ads and rarely do the developers get containerizing the ads right. Theres always a specific ad(s) that will make the game crash. This game does the ads so well. We never worry about crashing when closing an ad. This was literally the first game Ive played that did not crash because of an ad. Beautiful.
Great game. Wish there was more enemies, maps, cards and did etc. So much potential to be more just wishes that they kept with the updates.
Its very cute and we enjoy the story to bits.
This game had a lot of love put into it. The art style is unique and well made and the gameplay is at its base simple but can become very complex with card combinations! Every run will give you a fun and different adventure. Its a great time killer and a fun one at that. Everything is completely free except a character or two. Once you play through youll fall in love and have 0 problem shelling out $3 for a new character! All in all, this game is truly brilliant and we have so much love for it.
Ive never written a review before but this game deserves the five stars. The only complaint we have is that you cant get most of the characters with gems and instead you have to pay but its only a few dollars.
By far the best roguelike deck builder we have played. Very fun and challenging at times. We play this game every single day and never get bored with it. One of the best things is its not a pay to win like 99% of games on here even though we did buy some stuff to support. Wish we could expand the game with more worlds and monsters and maybe even new characters! Amazing job on this game cuz we will be playing it till we beat it 100x.
We have had so much fun with this game! We have put over 8 hours in this week, while we have a full time job, a wife, and a 2 year old. So that should tell you how many times we open this app whenever we grab our phone. Please try it out.
Amazing game. Has given us hours of fun, with an insane amount of depth for a free game.
We have never left a mobile game review in our life but this game man. The perfect mix of art style, great music, simple combat but filled with strategy and combinations, interesting characters, tons of enemies with different abilities that change how you play, all the different elements they throw at you in the game (the tavern, the gambling book, the artifacts). We cant really explain better how well made this game is, the attention to detail and love for the genre. We cant wait to keep playing and see more updates, please never give us a reason to stop playing.
We have over 80 hours in this game. The basic concept – dice-based combat, basically battle Yahtzee – never gets old. There are six different character classes, each with four "difficulties" that don't just change how tough the enemies are, but how the characters actually play. You can master easy difficulty, but medium might mean a completely different strategy. You can get pretty far in this game without spending money. There's a daily package in the store where you can get 100 gems plus other stuff by watching an ad, and you can use those gems to offer in-game perks. But this leads us to another great thing about the game: if you do want to spend money, the upgrades are so inexpensive. Several of the character classes cost money – a staggering $1.99 each. Anyone can afford that. If they were five bucks each we wouldn't be writing a five-star review, but the developers have kept things accessible and that's awesome. Honestly, eighty hours is more than we've put into almost any other game in our life, and as we said, there's still a ton of content we haven't even accessed yet – daily challenges, custom challenges, minigames, and all sorts of stuff. This is hands down the best free app on the App Store.
Honestly its one of the really greatest games Ive played in a very long time and Ive had it forever. We just wish theyd add a lot more to do mission wise because we completed everything and we want to keep going.
So much replayability, so much diversity with cards and artifacts and especially the monster designs. We absolutely love the amount of creativity that has gone into this game and the fact its fully playable without internet. Theres so many ways to play and you can access everything but a few characters for 0 dollars. We love this game dearly and pray for more from it.
This game gives off big Quarriors and Epic Spell Wars of the Battle Wizards vibes. It has a small learning curve but a moderate degree of strategy. We only wish there was an option to buy the entire game outright – we would have taken it within the first hour.
We dont write many reviews but this game is awesome.
There are still a lot more ads than there were a year ago, but theyve fixed the big banners that covered up part of the text on the screen, and the rest of the ads are skippable.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.3.7
- Size: 204.73 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, KO, PT, RU, ZH, ES, ZH
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: 兆万 林
Last updated: 10th September 2025 | Genre: Board, Roleplaying | Developer: 兆万 林