Dice With Buddies is a social multiplayer dice game for iOS and Android, featuring tournaments and family-based social groups.
The App DNA
What makes this app unique?
Users hire the app for low-stakes, social-competitive dice play that facilitates daily interaction with friends and family.
For Casual mobile gamers who enjoy classic board and dice games with social, multiplayer, and competitive elements.
What does it look like?
Key features
Single-player progression mode with custom rewards.
Daily competitive events including Dice Solitaire and Bingo.
In-game family groups with shared rewards and chat.
How much does it cost?
Freemium model utilizes ad-supported gameplay with a recurring subscription gate for premium rewards.
Velocity
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The developer maintains an intense release cadence, averaging approximately 0.6 releases per week over the analyzed period. Despite this high frequency, the release notes are uniformly opaque, consistently citing generic bug fixes and performance improvements without detailing specific features or changes. This pattern suggests the use of server-side feature flags or A/B testing rather than traditional App Store feature deployments. The development trend remains stable, focusing exclusively on technical maintenance and stability optimizations.
Who built it?
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What do users think recently?
Recent user voice shows a mixed sentiment. Users appreciate the core dice-rolling gameplay loop remains highly addictive and entertaining for long-term players and social features like family games and tournaments provide meaningful interaction with other players, but report frequent app crashes and freezing during gameplay sessions disrupt the user experience post-update.
How are ratings & reviews evolving?
Weekly average review rating
What users say, by theme
- The core dice-rolling gameplay loop remains highly addictive and entertaining for long-term players
- Social features like family games and tournaments provide meaningful interaction with other players
- Frequent app crashes and freezing during gameplay sessions disrupt the user experience post-update
120 of 953 recent reviews analyzed · high confidence · Mixed overall
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Competitive landscape for Dice With Buddies: Social Game
How's the Games market?
Dice With Buddies holds a #35 Grossing position in the US category. The app's reliance on ad-monetization creates a tension between free-tier accessibility and the revenue-driving subscription gate.
Read the market outlookThe rivals identified
By SuperPlay
Both apps target the casual board-game audience with social, competitive dice-rolling mechanics, creating direct competition for daily active users.
- Dice Dreams uses a tactile slingshot-aiming mechanic for attacks, whereas Dice With Buddies relies on standard dice-rolling.
- Dice Dreams includes a pet feeding system for progression, while Dice With Buddies focuses on social family groups.
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Key takeaways for Dice With Buddies: Social Game
Where is it heading?
The casual board game market is consolidating around stable, high-velocity live-ops competitors. Dice With Buddies is currently exposed: its maintenance-mode update cadence fails to address core technical instability, leaving it vulnerable to rivals with more balanced matchmaking and smoother performance.
- Frequent crashes post-update disrupt gameplay, which compounds the negative sentiment regarding monetization and accelerates churn among non-paying users.
The SWOT
- Daily tournament structure sustains high session frequency
- Social family groups drive long-term retention via network effects
- Implement team-based chat to improve coordination
- Refine matchmaking to favor skill-based balance
Next best moves
Audit crash logs post-update because frequent freezing is the top complaint → reduce churn
+ 1 more prioritized moveThe counter-intuitive read
The app's aggressive ad-monetization is not just a…
Read the full takeFeature gaps
Balanced skill-based matchmaking (available in Lord of the Board but missing here)
Since the last report: The app's competitive position is increasingly pressured by technical instability and aggressive ad-monetization, leading to a more critical outlook despite a stable grossing rank.
Bottom line
Dice With Buddies retains a loyal core through proven social mechanics, but technical instability and aggressive monetization are eroding the user base, so the PM must prioritize stability over new features to prevent further churn.
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- [1] Play Store listing, source
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