Publisher Black Lantern Collective and Toronto-based developer Rocket Adrift announced that Dead Finger Dice: The Billionaire Killing Game is almost ready for the October release.
The game blends poker dice with roguelite mechanics, wrapped in a horror satire where the price of failure is more than just chips on the table.
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Premise and Structure
The premise places players on The Avarice, a lavish yacht transformed into an underground tournament where demonic billionaires gamble with lives.
Each match follows the structure of poker dice: roll five dice, take up to three painful rerolls, and try to build the best hand possible. The rules are simple, but the consequences are severe.
Lose, and you are thrown overboard and replaced by another unlucky soul. Win, and you collect charms, materials, curses, and sometimes even a finger from your opponent.
Rocket Adrift designed the game as a dice-builder roguelite. Victories earn resources that can be used to craft new dice, add forbidden tweaks, or curse rolls for future advantage.
Between runs, you can stash valuable loot in a hidden compartment under your cell, ensuring some progress carries forward even when death ends a run. The approach mixes short-term luck with long-term strategy, making each throw of the dice as tense as the last.
Demonic billionaires and fingers
Five demonic billionaires act as bosses across different floors of the yacht. Each has its own cruel rules and modifiers that change how the game plays.
Some alter the value of certain hands, others manipulate rerolls, while all embody a twisted version of greed and excess. Facing them is not only a mechanical challenge but also a commentary on power: the developers describe billionaires as monsters in disguise, stripping away the disguise for the sake of satire.
The tone is reinforced by a deliberately harsh presentation. The visual style adopts a grungy 1-bit look, while the soundtrack builds a claustrophobic atmosphere that matches the body horror themes.
Fingers are wagered, severed, and turned into resources, and gore is a recurring element of the experience. Content warnings highlight the finger-severing mechanic as a core part of play.
Progression and Key Features
Progression goes beyond dice manipulation. As players survive and collect more clues, they can decode the yacht’s codex to uncover multiple endings.
Each run contributes to piecing together the broader story, encouraging repeated attempts despite the permanence of death. Bluffing, risk-taking, and the chance of disaster are baked into every hand, keeping tension high from start to finish.
Feature highlights include:
- Demonic Billionaire Bosses: Five unique encounters with their own rules and modifiers.
- Dice-Builder Meets Poker Roguelike: Roll, reroll, bluff, and build custom dice across runs.
- Dark Upgrades: Materials and fingers let you curse dice, charm rolls, or hide loot for the future.
- Permanent Death: Each character’s story ends with failure, but the cycle continues with a new victim.
- Multiple Endings: A codex hidden within emails and the environment slowly reveals the full story.
The Developer and Publisher
Dead Finger Dice comes from Rocket Adrift, the indie studio behind the visual novel Raptor Boyfriend and the cyberpunk adventure Psychroma.
Known for diverse characters and a mix of humor and honesty, the studio is applying its narrative style to a new genre.
The publisher, Black Lantern Collective, is a newly formed label created by horror specialists with over 15 years of experience in the field. Their focus is on unusual, unsettling projects that take risks and explore darker themes.
“Every billionaire is a monster in disguise, so we just skipped the disguise,” said Titus McNally in the announcement. The quote underlines the satirical edge of the project, framing it as both a horror roguelite and a commentary on wealth and power.
Release date, platforms, details, and trailer
Dead Finger Dice has a free demo available to try, while the release date is set for October 24, 2025, on PC via Steam. Below are more details and the trailer for the release date.
Play a sinister game of poker dice against blood-thirsty demon billionaires who’ve trapped you on their mega yacht in this rogue-like dice builder.
You have been forcefully stranded aboard The Avarice in order to participate in an underground tournament.
Find a way to win several rounds of a sadistic poker dice game that the elites have concocted on their luxury mega yacht.
Will you be able to break the cycle, or will the body count keep rising?
Roll your five dice to get the highest poker hand. Each round gives you 3 re-rolls. The player with the highest hand wins the round. Play until you’ve cleaned out your opponent – or your opponent cleans you out.
Place bets by cutting off your own fingers – or watch as the boss loses theirs.
Lose the game, lose your life – get tossed overboard and replaced with a new poor soul, and start again. Another match lost is another notch on the body count.
Remember to hide away your best resources in the hidden compartment of your cell for the next run.
Rig your dice up with demonically sealed special abilities crafted using materials and fingers you’ve won through poker games.
Unlock charms and curses for your dice that allow you to build a strategy towards defeating your opponents and rigging the game in your favor.
Unlock multiple endings by deciphering a codex. Find hints and clues to the code scattered throughout emails and your cell.
- Grungy 1-bit aesthetic
- Class consciousness
- 5 nasty bosses
- Revolutionary body count
- A *unique* betting system
- All original OST
- Completely human-made with our fingers
