Dice of Kalma is a strategic, poker-style dice roguelike for iOS and Android that focuses on deckbuilding and synergy discovery.
Product velocity
Intense
Daily rank 🇺🇸
#105
▼17Games · free
Sentiment
4.5
1k reviews
Nemesis
Balatro+
The App DNA
What makes this app unique?
Players hire the game for the tactile satisfaction of dice-rolling luck mitigation, serving the need for high-replayability strategy sessions that reward long-term deck planning.
For Fans of roguelike deckbuilders and strategic card games who enjoy high-replayability, puzzle-oriented mechanics.
Key features
Collect and manage a deck of 70+ unique skulls with distinct game-changing abilities
Select and reroll dice to form specific poker-style hands to score points
Compete against other players for the highest scores
Time-limited daily challenges with unique constraints
How much does it cost?
Freemium model utilizing ad-supported gameplay with in-app purchases to monetize the user base.
Velocity
Intense developmentShow more...
5 versions in history. Development pace: intense.
Who built it?
User Sentiment
What do users think recently?
How are ratings & reviews evolving?
Not enough recent reviews to extract reliable themes yet.
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Competitive landscape for Dice of Kalma: Dice Roguelike
How's the Games market?
Dice of Kalma maintains a presence in the Strategy category across multiple global markets, currently holding the #101 Free rank in the US. The gap between its free-install velocity and grossing performance suggests a need to optimize IAP conversion.
The rivals identified
By Playstack Ltd
Dominates the poker-roguelike sub-genre with massive market penetration and direct thematic overlap with Dice of Kalma's core mechanics.
- Features a deep, multi-layered poker-hand scoring system that creates a more complex meta-progression than our current dice-based loop.
- Leverages a highly polished, distinct visual aesthetic that has become the industry benchmark for the poker-roguelike genre.
- Offers a massive library of unlockable jokers and tarot cards that provide significantly more build variety than our current skull deck.
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Key takeaways for Dice of Kalma: Dice Roguelike
Where is it heading?
The poker-roguelike category is consolidating around high-polish, premium-priced titles, leaving ad-supported entries like Dice of Kalma exposed to churn. The app must transition to IAP-focused monetization to sustain growth as the market shifts toward higher-value user segments.
- The lack of cloud-save functionality creates a high-friction experience for long-term players, which compounds the churn risk against established roguelike competitors.
- The latest release demonstrates active bug-fix investment, which stabilizes the core loop and prevents further erosion of the Android rating baseline.
The SWOT
- Dice-rolling mechanic provides a tactile luck-mitigation experience distinct from card-based roguelikes.
- 70+ skull deckbuilding library enables high-replayability through diverse synergy discovery.
- Untapped B2B potential in strategic gaming partnerships.
- Expansion into wearable platforms to capture short-session casual play.
Next best moves
Ship cloud save because it is the top-requested missing feature → unlock data-loss frustration
+ 1 more prioritized moveThe counter-intuitive read
The game's reliance on ad-supported monetization is a…
Read the full takeFeature gaps
Cloud-save functionality (available in Balatro+ but missing here) +1
Since the last report: The app transitioned to a freemium monetization model and identified critical technical debt regarding cloud-save functionality.
Bottom line
Dice of Kalma holds its category lead through sticky deckbuilding mechanics but bleeds long-term players to data-loss friction, so revenue growth hinges on shifting from ad-based monetization to IAP-driven value.
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