
This however only happened once throughout my whole play time so your guess is as good as mine as to why it happened. Thankfully, ordering him back to me did work and it popped Dicey back to me. The one time I threw him and he just fell through the floor of the fight. Yeah there were a few interesting glitches when throwing Dicey around. One I can certainly say I enjoyed immensely, but that doesn’t mean it was perfect. Cards in your deck have various effects, such as manifesting new weapons for Even to use, healing Even, applying debuffs like poison to your weapons, and even special actions.īoth of these systems together can make for a jarring but rather interesting game play experience for sure. While in the Dicemension, time is at a standstill while you choose what to play next. On the other hand you have the Dicemension mechanic.īy building up energy, you can roll your die companion Dicey and get energy to draw and play cards from your deck.


Where you run around shooting a slingshot at blue boils on enemies in order to build up energy while swinging and shooting manifested weapons at enemies to defeat them. On one-hand there is a real-time action component. The combat aspect of Lost in Random‘s game play is a rather unique system. Thus starts the journey of Even meeting her own dice companion, Dicey, and traveling through Random to save her sister. She decides to follow the figure believing her sister to be in trouble. Through some underhanded trickery on the Queen’s part, Even’s older sister Odd rolls a six and is essentially kidnapped by the Queen to live in her palace.Īfter a year has passed, Even is awoken one night by a nightmare and a mysterious floating ghostly figure. This roll determines which of the six cities that child will live in. Upon the age of twelve, the children of Random roll the Queen’s black die. The world of Random is separated into six different cities, each with different traits associated with them. Thus we get to the sibling pair of Even and Odd in the new world of Random. Though a stray attack kills the one friend and is lost in her grief, the remaining character, later turned The Queen, twists the world in her image and hides all knowledge of the dice, making it impossible for others to undo her new world. This is told to us from the very first scene of the game, where we are shown two young friends battling against monsters with their reality bending die companions.

The story of Lost in Random at its core is a tale of loss for the major characters involved. Let’s see if it managed to live up to the hype. If it isn’t clear that I am going into this Lost in Random review with high hopes, well that would be an understatement. The dark atmosphere of the world alongside a unique twist on dice roll combat, well, I couldn’t wait to get my hands on this game. When I first saw the trailer for Lost in Random I was already hooked. Regular readers will know that I love games with unique mechanics. Introduction to the Lost in Random Review
