Last updated on November 20th, 2025 at 10:08 pm
Dice of Kalma – Strategy Game Review
Dice of Kalma is a Strategy/Puzzle game from Pepperbox Studios Oy, first launched in 14th November 2025.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 34+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Dice of Kalma Stand Out
Dice of Kalma is a deckbuilding roguelike where you play dice against Kalma, the grim guardian of the Underworld. Build a deck of powerful skulls, find synergies, and turn the dice to your favor to escape back to the world of the living.
ROLL THE DICE
Select and reroll unwanted dice to chase ever more valuable hands. Strategically pace your rerolls or go all in chasing the ultimate hand to play!
BUILD A DECK OF SKULLS
Choose skulls to add to your deck and find new opportunities to increase your score. Experiment, find synergies, and try different playstyles. Construct a deck of skulls to turn even the worst hand of dice around, or pick skulls that reward risky play and pushing your luck.
PLAY HANDS
Activate as many skulls as possible with every hand and use your rerolls to gain every advantage you can. Upgrade chosen hands to increase their value and complement your deck of skulls to meet increasingly difficult challenges.
FAIL AND TRY AGAIN
If you run out of hands, it's game over for you. Don’t worry, though. Persistence is rewarded, and the guardian of the Underworld seems to grow fond of you coming back to challenge him for just one more round.
This Strategy game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Dice of Kalma is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 14th November 2025
Recent improvements include:
- Added Thai localization.
- Updated Russian and Polish localizations.
- Very slightly adjusted the difficulty curve around levels 8-12.
- Fixed a bug where the border of the game view could blink green before the initial roll.
- Fixed a bug where Kalma's eyes could become visible again after the eyes close in the ending cutscene when winning the game.
Download & Availability
Dice of Kalma is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Dice of Kalma 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:
Fun game. Sitting at #2 on global leaderboard with only a handful of games played. Hopefully more content is added to up the difficulty or provide more randomness.
We love the game, even with the death loop we havent found ourselves getting frustrated and instead wanting to continue, we think itd be cool to add different sprites for the dice that you could buy somehow but otherwise great game.
Now THIS is how you create a fantastic mobile game. We heard about this game awhile back and couldnt wait for it to come out. We downloaded it the moment it did, and after playing through just once we instantly paid the very fair IAP to make it premium with no ads. This is SUPER fun to play, and the developer thought everything through very well. The concept, design, UI, absolutely everything is perfect. And you can save any time, so its easy to pick back up when you have a spare minute to play. Its so fun you want to keep playing though. And the monetizing is fair, other developers should learn from a good developer like this. We cant tell you how much we appreciate a fair price for both parties for a good game. And we appreciate the restore purchases button too. You guys are awesome. (For anyone wondering, after you buy ad removal just quit the app and then restart it, then the ad removal button will change to a new button for if/when you want to quit a game instead of continuing; another good design choice!) Anyway, this is going to be our go-to game from now on. We LOVE it. Yahtzee with agency. So fun. And portrait mode too, thank you! And good on battery. You guys thought of everything and clearly tested it before releasing it. Its awesome. We highly recommend this game! Casual and strategic and challenging without being frustrating. We wouldnt change a thing. Thank you developers.
Easily the best dice game in the App Store. Easy to understand gameplay, addicting and a blast to play.
Very fun game. Fantastic time killer.
Its literally Balatro with dice and a few different mechanics. However, the game is well designed, simple, repeatable, and, thus, addicting. Our only suggestion is to add more content mini games, mechanics, modes, etc. Otherwise good job devs.
Very fun! Its like Balatro with dice. Ads are absolutely intrusive though.
Meh, nothing special and Im losing interest quickly. Back to Bricks Breaker RPG for us. Over 1,800 players on leaderboards but no reviews as of 11/14/25. That seems a bit odd.
Maybe Im just skilled issued but we tend to be pretty good at roguelikes and here we cant even get halfway through the stages. After failing around 30 different attempts going with the flow of which skulls we had to choose from, we specifically tried to make a 4 and 5 of a kind run around 10-15 times in a row, picking the skulls that would seem most likely to help, but it would always fail around stage 11. We know the main point of the game is luck rolling dice, but at least in other similar games like luck be a landlord or balatro you never feel like its completely out of your hand or just due to bad luck. Maybe there needs to be a third type of strategic system to help you progress rather than just skulls. Or a deeper layer to the game after you beat it once and then it gets harder. Ill definitely be playing more though and see what happens.
It is a really fun game and we debated buying the ad free option after the end of our tutorial run (try before buy). However, these ads are unnecessary and intrusiveI had just won a hand then an ad popped up for no reason. We have to kill the app as the ads wont close or skip after its done. Im now at a point where the game will not progress at 8/25 because the ad crashes the game.
We love the game, but having long unskippable ads kills it for us. Bad user experience.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.0.10
- Size: 262.18 MB
- iOS: 15.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: [Pepperbox Studios Oy]()
Last updated: 14th November 2025 | Genre: Strategy, Puzzle | Developer: Pepperbox Studios Oy