{"rewrite":{"id":"r_872fbcf4d51b989c729c4c67","clusterId":"c_8538ebf4948762c63180235b","slug":"ribbit-rogue-launches-on-steam-with-dice-forging-and-universal-criticals","model":"deepseek-v4-flash","headline":"Ribbit Rogue Launches on Steam with Dice Forging and Universal Criticals","summary":"King Krab Games released Ribbit Rogue on Steam on September 4. The turn-based roguelike has players customize dice as a frog adventurer fighting through a rot-corrupted swamp. Each turn offers seven dice from the pool, with four chosen and rolled. A universal critical system doubles damage, shield, and healing effects. The game is on sale at 20 percent off, priced at 1080 yen.","whyItMatters":"Ribbit Rogue's hook is treating dice as raw material: players swap faces at the forge and merge duplicates, so a build is assembled rather than found.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eDevelopment ran more than five years, and the game began on Playdate. King Krab Games released Ribbit Rogue for the crank handheld in April 2025, and the Sim/Strategy category at the Playdate Community Awards later nominated it. The Steam version followed, with a demo published in March and updated through May, adding a second area, 40 relics, boss relics, and new dice.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCombat runs on a pool capped at ten dice. Each turn offers seven, and the player rolls four. Faces carry attack, shield, heal, and buff effects, plus special tags: Quick, Slow, and Twin, which trigger when a die is used first, last, or twice. Criticals double any action, including defense and recovery.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe forge lets players lay two dice side by side and swap faces between them. Duplicate dice merge and strengthen, up to three times per face. A run carries more than 120 relics, 30 enemy types, six bosses, three playable characters, and a high-difficulty Swamp Depth setting.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Ribbit Rogue is out on Steam. King Krab Games' dice-building roguelike started on Playdate in April 2025, then got a Steam demo in March. The hook is the forge: swap faces between dice, merge duplicates, build a six-sided kit instead of finding one. 20 percent off at launch.","twitterPost":"Ribbit Rogue is out on Steam. The dice-building roguelike from King Krab Games started on Playdate in April 2025. Its hook is the forge, where you swap faces between dice and merge duplicates. Launch sale takes 20 percent off the 1080 yen price.","threadsPost":null,"newsletterBlurb":"King Krab Games released Ribbit Rogue on Steam on September 4, a turn-based roguelike where a frog adventurer customizes dice through a swamp. The game began on Playdate in April 2025 and reached Steam after a demo cycle that ran through May. It is on sale at 20 percent off, priced at 1080 yen.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"Automaton\",\"url\":\"https://automaton-media.com/articles/newsjp/ribbit-rogue-20260904-464862/\",\"title\":\"Ribbit Rogue, a New Dice-Building Roguelike on Steam, Launches with Free Dice Modification\"}]","lintFlagsJson":null,"lintHits":0,"costUsd":0,"inputTokens":5208,"outputTokens":4415,"status":"published","repairAttempts":0,"nextRepairAt":null,"factsAttemptedAt":null,"createdAt":"2026-09-04T02:45:57.000Z","publishedAt":"2026-09-04T02:46:43.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-09-04T02:46:43.000Z"},"cluster":{"id":"c_8538ebf4948762c63180235b","canonicalTitle":"Steamの新たな“サイコロ構築”ローグライク『Ribbit Rogue』発売、「サイコロ魔改造」が自由自在。ハズレが出るならハズレ面をなくせばいい","representativeArticleId":"a_5ee756fb8ba0b92a2c4a00ba","sourceCount":1,"writtenSourceCount":1,"writeAttempts":0,"isSolo":true,"entitiesJson":"{\"anime_titles\":[],\"manga_titles\":[],\"work_titles\":[\"Ribbit Rogue\"],\"studios\":[\"King Krab Games\"],\"people\":[],\"type\":\"release\",\"domain\":\"games\",\"is_roundup\":false}","contentType":"news","status":"published","firstSeenAt":"2026-09-04T02:00:08.000Z","lastSeenAt":"2026-09-04T02:00:08.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-09-04T02:46:40.000Z"},"attribution":[{"source":"Automaton","url":"https://automaton-media.com/articles/newsjp/ribbit-rogue-20260904-464862/","title":"Steamの新たな“サイコロ構築”ローグライク『Ribbit Rogue』発売、「サイコロ魔改造」が自由自在。ハズレが出るならハズレ面をなくせばいい"}],"entities":{"anime_titles":[],"manga_titles":[],"work_titles":["Ribbit Rogue"],"studios":["King Krab Games"],"people":[],"type":"release","domain":"games","is_roundup":false},"keyFacts":null}