Evil Within Dev Making Mobile Game Hero Dice

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Most gamers know the ZeniMax subsidiary Tango Gameworks as the developers of Bethesda’s Evil Within series and the upcoming Ghostwire: Tokyo. Thus, players might have a fairly specific idea of the typical output from Shinji Mikami’s studio. That mental image probably does not include a casual mobile game with a colorful, chibi-inspired art style.

However, that is precisely what The Evil Within’s developer is working on. On February 14, Tango Gameworks released a trailer announcing the new mobile game Hero Dice. Japanese players can register now for Android and iOS, with a release window set for this Spring. However, it’s unknown if Tango plans to release an English-language version of the game. Note that much of the following information comes from a machine translation of the game’s official site.

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Hero Dice is an Android and iOS action card game partially based on a Japanese board game known as sugoroku, meaning “double six.” Specifically, it’s based on the simplified and much more popular e-sugoroku, or “picture sugoroku” variant, which resembles the game known as Snakes and Ladders in the West. However, Hero Dice is more than just a virtual recreation of the popular board game.

Hero Dice players select one of several Heroes who progress along a square board. Characters move based on the number of the dice roll, then do battle with various monsters, and two heroes can aid each other if they happen to land on the same space. Different spaces also grant different effects, which can help or hinder Heroes in battle. However, players can override these effects by playing cards from their hand.Hero Dice also supports both a single-player mode and up to four