Deep Cut

Deep Cut is a co-op dice-and-stone roguelite for one to four players. You play as a lapidary with a bottomless mine under your workshop. Choose your loadout of skill gems and dice, fight through harder and harder enemies as you dig deeper to find better rewards. Decide whether to take the lifts home or risk it all to venture deeper.

How a turn works

Everyone rolls five dice, rerolls twice and locks in. Then, different skill gems activate based on the hand you kept: a pair, a straight, a full house, etc. Every gem that fires builds Resonance, improving the power of your character's unique Birthstone at the end of the rail. One the player turns are done, the creatures attack back with dice rolls of their own. Defeat the monsters to continue further down the mines.

The 4 C’s of Gemstones

• Color determines what a stone does: red damage, blue guard, green sustain, violet control, gold fortune, white affects your hand itself.
• Carat multiplies the strength of the skills. Bigger Carat = stronger effects.
• Cut affects how often the gems can fire. The better a gem's cut, the easier it is to activate.
• Clarity gives each gem unique traits. Flawless gems provide more resonance and gain unique extra abilities. On the other end of the spectrum, gems can also carry various "inclusions" which can be both beneficial and detrimental.

Every gem you find in the mines takes on a unique combination of each of the 4 C's. The deeper you go, the better your odds of finding a larger stone, a flawless stone, or a perfectly cut stone.

What's in the current version

• 109 skills across seven colors of stone
• Seven mines: the Quarry, the Seeps, the Glass Veins, the Warrens, the Furnace, the Hollow, and the Rift (endless)
• 63 creatures, with unique abilities and dice
• Six delvers to unlock with unique Birthstone skills and different sets of dice
• Roguelite progression. Bring home gems which you can equip on subsequent runs
• Dice that are items too: shapes from d2 to d100, etched faces and materials
• A daily dig, and twenty Hazard tiers once you reach the Rift

How to play

• In the browser: press Run game. Works in Chrome, Edge and Firefox on a desktop or laptop. The first load is about 87 MB. Solo only.
• On Windows: install it with the itch app, which keeps it up to date, or download the zip and run DeepCut.exe. Co-op for up to four over LAN or a Steam lobby.

Note: I don't have a Steam ID for the game yet, so it will show up as "Spacewar" if you invite someone to join.

Status

Early development, version 0.0.12. Expect balance changes between releases. Everyone in a co-op party needs the same version. 

Coming soon^TM

• Character artwork
• Better music
• Official Steam version
• More skill gems and new characters
• New events in the mines
• Tutorial
• Many bugfixes and UX improvements

Credits

Made by xho in Godot. Find me on Discord if you have any questions or feedback.