Dice of Kalma: Dice Game

Name: Dice of Kalma: Dice Game
Rating: 4.8 (2102 reviews)
Author: Pepperbox Studios

Brutal Roguelike Deckbuilder

Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.

2.1K Ratings
Age Rating

4+
Years
Chart

#186
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Developer

Pepperbox Studios
Language

EN
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314.4
MB

The 2.0 update is here! Pick one of 11 reroll abilities that change how every run plays, collect new skulls, and unlock new dice skins and outfits. Death is waiting. WELCOME TO THE UNDERWORLD'S DEADLIEST GAME OF DICE! "A roguelike that scratches the post-Balatro itch" - Qualbert "A Spooky roguelike deckbuilder mix of Yahtzee and Balatro" - MiniReview Dice of Kalma is a deckbuilding roguelike where you challenge Kalma, the grim guardian of the Underworld. Roll dice to build scoring hands, collect powerful skulls with game-breaking abilities, and discover devastating combos. How far can you push your luck to master the chaos? ROLL THE DICE Select and reroll unwanted dice to chase ever more valuable hands. Strategically pace your rerolls or simply 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 Make the numbers go crazy! Activate as many skulls as possible. Use your rerolls to gain every advantage you can. Upgrade chosen hands to increase their value and complement your deck of skulls to meet Kalma’s 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.

Events

MAJOR UPDATE
Dice of Kalma 2.0

Our biggest update yet: choose how your rerolls work, face new skulls and unlock new dice skins and outfits.

Ratings & Reviews

4.8

out of 5

2.1K Ratings

Balatro-Like Rogue-Like Decent Dice Game
Apr 28
An Uncommon Aura
We’ve seen tons of balatro-inspired games surface recently in the wake of the game’s massive success. For the most part they all offer a decent amount of the same type of fun, but always tend to miss the sweet spots that balatro was able to hit. The same is true for Dice of Kalma. It’s a good little time killer, has some neat “joker” interactions and synergies to experiment with, but ultimately doesn’t really go further than being a decently fun time killer. Winning your first few runs is tough enough, and requires enough strategizing to make for a compelling time, but after that it feels far too tediously repetitive. It’s lacking the other balatro-like features that really added depth to the experience. You can upgrade the different hands (pair, 2 pair, etc.) but nothing else. And once you’ve gotten a handle on what skulls (jokers) are good the difficulty cieling drops significantly. Despite this the game gets an easy recommendation from me to anyone who enjoys roguelikes generally. It’s cheap enough to be worth the time, has a dedicated development who frequently updates, and it’s great to encourage/support more games off this nature/monetization style in the iOS store. Opposed to recent games like Heroll or Dicero, whose every aspect and feature aims to trick you into spending untold amounts on micro-transactions, games like this deserve some love even if they aren’t up to par with the greats of the genre.
Balatro-Like Rogue-Like Decent Dice Game
Apr 28
An Uncommon Aura

We’ve seen tons of balatro-inspired games surface recently in the wake of the game’s massive success. For the most part they all offer a decent amount of the same type of fun, but always tend to miss the sweet spots that balatro was able to hit. The same is true for Dice of Kalma. It’s a good little time killer, has some neat “joker” interactions and synergies to experiment with, but ultimately doesn’t really go further than being a decently fun time killer. Winning your first few runs is tough enough, and requires enough strategizing to make for a compelling time, but after that it feels far too tediously repetitive. It’s lacking the other balatro-like features that really added depth to the experience. You can upgrade the different hands (pair, 2 pair, etc.) but nothing else. And once you’ve gotten a handle on what skulls (jokers) are good the difficulty cieling drops significantly. Despite this the game gets an easy recommendation from me to anyone who enjoys roguelikes generally. It’s cheap enough to be worth the time, has a dedicated development who frequently updates, and it’s great to encourage/support more games off this nature/monetization style in the iOS store. Opposed to recent games like Heroll or Dicero, whose every aspect and feature aims to trick you into spending untold amounts on micro-transactions, games like this deserve some love even if they aren’t up to par with the greats of the genre.
Dude, this is sick.
Apr 8
Freedom thinker.
Yea ok I’m not really one for an iPhone game. I don’t like them mostly, and it’s real hard to get a good one; examples include doodle jump, tree ninja, etc… but this game? This game… It’s fun, not too long, great at filling the time and low stakes for how high stakes it is. It’s a little luck, a little strategy and a whoooole lot of excitement when you hit big. It’s beatable (I just proved that to my self in the last run because I wasn’t sure) but totally worth the time it takes to figure it out. My compliments to the chef, this is one that will go down in the books for me. Well done and to any new players… good luck. 💀
Dude, this is sick.
Apr 8
Freedom thinker.

Yea ok I’m not really one for an iPhone game. I don’t like them mostly, and it’s real hard to get a good one; examples include doodle jump, tree ninja, etc… but this game? This game… It’s fun, not too long, great at filling the time and low stakes for how high stakes it is. It’s a little luck, a little strategy and a whoooole lot of excitement when you hit big. It’s beatable (I just proved that to my self in the last run because I wasn’t sure) but totally worth the time it takes to figure it out. My compliments to the chef, this is one that will go down in the books for me. Well done and to any new players… good luck. 💀
Good, but surprisingly lacking in dice customization which would make the game way more fun
12/12/2025
Starflight6041
It’s pretty fun to play a few times until you beat level 25, but the game would be so much better if you could modify the dice in some way. Every single skull has a conditional to meet, and right now the game is built around manipulating the dice to activate as many as possible, but it would be far more interesting to be able to manipulate the odds outside of battle to strategically help activate certain conditionals and avoid certain rolls. Perhaps whenever you win a battle/skip a skull (would have to be implemented), you could gain currency, then spend it at some kind of shop to change the numbers on dice/fully replace dice with new custom dice. I just don’t understand how we took Balatro, then completely removed the tarot card system, remaining card system, and purchasing card system that helped make gameplay so interesting and simply replaced them with more discards/rerolls. If different dice had different odds to roll certain numbers, gameplay would involve so many more decisions, both in and out of combat. The lack of customization in that regard completely shocked me, as it’s such an obvious staple of the genre, and for good reason. As aside, I must say that hand leveling is handled really weirdly. Why do they all scale equally by +5 chips and +1 mult? In terms of a percentage increase, that’s way more impactful for the “weaker” hands, and since skulls are basically all your points anyways, you’re incentivized to go for “weaker” hands to activate more skulls. Hands should scale proportionately to their base values.
Good, but surprisingly lacking in dice customization which would make the game way more fun
12/12/2025
Starflight6041

It’s pretty fun to play a few times until you beat level 25, but the game would be so much better if you could modify the dice in some way. Every single skull has a conditional to meet, and right now the game is built around manipulating the dice to activate as many as possible, but it would be far more interesting to be able to manipulate the odds outside of battle to strategically help activate certain conditionals and avoid certain rolls. Perhaps whenever you win a battle/skip a skull (would have to be implemented), you could gain currency, then spend it at some kind of shop to change the numbers on dice/fully replace dice with new custom dice. I just don’t understand how we took Balatro, then completely removed the tarot card system, remaining card system, and purchasing card system that helped make gameplay so interesting and simply replaced them with more discards/rerolls. If different dice had different odds to roll certain numbers, gameplay would involve so many more decisions, both in and out of combat. The lack of customization in that regard completely shocked me, as it’s such an obvious staple of the genre, and for good reason. As aside, I must say that hand leveling is handled really weirdly. Why do they all scale equally by +5 chips and +1 mult? In terms of a percentage increase, that’s way more impactful for the “weaker” hands, and since skulls are basically all your points anyways, you’re incentivized to go for “weaker” hands to activate more skulls. Hands should scale proportionately to their base values.
Decent game, terrible connectivity
12/21/2025
DallasNChains
Overall, I enjoy the gameplay but dislike a couple of mechanics and ability to play offline. From a gameplay perspective, I like the poker dice gameplay loop, and the points per round are reasonable. There are no permanent upgrades to make future runs easier, so it is truly a roguelike vs a roguelite. A big negative is how the skull modifiers are handled. For example, the skull modifiers are things like “+5 Bones and +2 Multi When playing a hand if at least one dice is equal to the sum of its two adjacent dice.” That’s one of the easier ones, but you have to remember up to 24 of those depending on where you’re at in the run. I find myself spending more time scrolling the skulls list after a few rounds. You can also get the same skull but in different colors. No idea what the colors mean, and I’ve yet to see it explained in-game.The most egregious problem is that the game just completely locks up my phone if I lose connectivity. I was playing the game on a roadtrip, and it crashed so hard in low connectivity situations that my iPhone 16 Pro restarted itself. Twice. I’ve even paid for the ad unlock, so there is no excuse for this behavior. Without ads, everything should be client-side, but it is clear there is something server-side when completing a round that isn’t handled gracefully. It really soured me on the game.
Decent game, terrible connectivity
12/21/2025
DallasNChains

Overall, I enjoy the gameplay but dislike a couple of mechanics and ability to play offline. From a gameplay perspective, I like the poker dice gameplay loop, and the points per round are reasonable. There are no permanent upgrades to make future runs easier, so it is truly a roguelike vs a roguelite. A big negative is how the skull modifiers are handled. For example, the skull modifiers are things like “+5 Bones and +2 Multi When playing a hand if at least one dice is equal to the sum of its two adjacent dice.” That’s one of the easier ones, but you have to remember up to 24 of those depending on where you’re at in the run. I find myself spending more time scrolling the skulls list after a few rounds. You can also get the same skull but in different colors. No idea what the colors mean, and I’ve yet to see it explained in-game.The most egregious problem is that the game just completely locks up my phone if I lose connectivity. I was playing the game on a roadtrip, and it crashed so hard in low connectivity situations that my iPhone 16 Pro restarted itself. Twice. I’ve even paid for the ad unlock, so there is no excuse for this behavior. Without ads, everything should be client-side, but it is clear there is something server-side when completing a round that isn’t handled gracefully. It really soured me on the game.

NEW IN 2.0: - Reroll abilities! Choose one of 11 reroll abilities at the start of a run. Each one changes how rerolls work: you gain something, but lose something else. - Unlock new reroll abilities by reaching certain levels with the ones you already have. - 2 new skulls: Samurai skull and Mauled skull. - Candle, Gamer, Choked and Drinking skulls have been reworked to be simpler. - 12 new achievements and lots of new cosmetic items to unlock. - Seasonal events that return every year. Play during an event to earn its own outfit. IMPROVEMENTS: - Leaderboard button in the daily mode end screen. - Hands and rerolls are shown more clearly during score calculation and score preview. - Skull animations triggered by rerolls can be skipped by holding the Play Hand button. - The inventory view (list or grid) is now remembered, and the grid view shows all skull details. - Second chance texts are now translated into all languages. - New sound effect for skull activations, plus many visual and animation improvements. BUGFIXES: - Fixed the Pirate skull sometimes highlighting the wrong dice. - Fixed the purchase menu in the pause menu sometimes showing the wrong options. - Fixed the price of the third supporter pack showing zero. - Fixed incorrect Kalma dialogue when starting a daily challenge in some cases, plus other small fixes.

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Seller: Pepperbox Studios Oy
Size: 314.4 MB
Category: Strategy
Compatibility: Requires iOS 15.0 or later.

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Languages: English and 16 more

English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian
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Dice of Kalma: Dice Game

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Dice of Kalma 2.0

Ratings & Reviews

Balatro-Like Rogue-Like Decent Dice Game

Dude, this is sick.

Good, but surprisingly lacking in dice customization which would make the game way more fun

Decent game, terrible connectivity

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