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Subscribe to the world's #1 PC gaming mag Try a single issue or save on a subscription Issues delivered straight to your door or device From£35.99Subscribe now PC Gaming Show Tokyo Essential Hardware Battlefield 6 Don't miss these This deckbuilding card battler where you bargain with the devil looks like Inscryption mixed with Battle Chess I'm hooting and hollering for this upcoming RPG about staging heists in the underworld from the publishers of Dwarf Fortress and the designers of one of the best narrative games of all time The next videogame getting its own tabletop RPG is Diablo, an RPG that doesn't have any RP in it Playstack, not content with obliterating my free time via Balatro, is publishing another roguelike about coin pusher machines I think Dungeons and Dragons peaked in 1982 and that's why I can't wait to play this 'hand-drawn black and white dungeon crawler' coming next year Hellraiser is finally getting a videogame after 40 years, and I only have one request for Saber Interactive Apparently someone decided it was a good idea to make a Let It Die sequel in the year 2025, and God bless them My inner Morrowind sicko is howling over the new game from the Dread Delusion devs, a turn-based RPG where you play a theatre troupe fighting demons It's a golden age for weird Eastern European games—you can tell because I'm in love with a horror puzzler about 2 old men trying to find evil in the woods I had low expectations for this upcoming FMV 'interactive horror' game, but its hour-long demo turned out to be one of the most entertaining things I've played all year This roguelike auto-battler has me obsessed with doing entire RPG adventures in 5 minutes Deep Rock Galactic board game Kickstarter pulls in nearly $1 million in 1 day for a trio of new expansions I'm always on the lookout for a good tile-based roguelike, and this Finnish fever dream of imps and ice trolls seems like it could have the juice If you've ever wanted a roguelike with clever autobattler build-crafting that also looks like if Jim Henson had a particularly disturbing cheese dream, Flask is the game for you The best cyberpunk games on PC The Witcher's forgotten minigame gets a grisly revival where you bet your own digits trying to roll high-scoring poker hands against demonic billionaires 27 September 2025 It's sure to be a digit-al sensation. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. (Image credit: Rocket Adrift) Fans of The Witcher 3 may have fallen in love with Gwent when CD Projekt's masterful RPG launched in 2015, but I personally lamented the loss of the original minigame from the series—Dice Poker. I always thought Gwent was too much of a commitment for a minigame contained within a 300-hour RPG, and preferred the simpler, more intuitive fun of rolling high-scoring poker hands with fistfuls of dice seen in the first two games. While it's unlikely we'll ever see Dice Poker get an official spinoff in the way Gwent did, it does finally have its own dedicated roguelike. Dead Finger Dice is an Inscryption-ish mix of digital tabletop gaming and spooky narrative puzzling, with a gnarly twist where you use your character's fingers as betting currency. The premise is that you've been kidnapped and imprisoned aboard The Avarice, a luxury yacht inhabited by bloodthirsty demonic billionaires. These sadistic superrich monsters, who include Nosferatu-ish vampires and snake-headed Medusas among their ranks, force you to play games of Dice Poker, where you get five dice and four rolls to achieve the highest-scoring poker-hand you can. Related Articles This deckbuilding card battler where you bargain with the devil looks like Inscryption mixed with Battle Chess I'm hooting and hollering for this upcoming RPG about staging heists in the underworld from the publishers of Dwarf Fortress and the designers of one of the best narrative games of all time The next videogame getting its own tabletop RPG is Diablo, an RPG that doesn't have any RP in it Dead Finger Dice: A Billionaire Killing Game - Official Release Window Trailer | The MIX Summer Show - YouTube In the betting system, each player can bet multiple fingers per round, and is given a finger-guillotine for more efficient maiming. You might even call such a device handy, or perhaps anti-handy? In any case, if you can liberate a demon from all of their manual digits, you win. But if it's you who comes up stumps, you die, and must start afresh with a new character. In between runs, you'll get a chance to explore your cell, where you can squirrel away useful items to bring into subsequent games, and craft new dice with "demonically sealed" special abilities. In a wonderfully grisly flourish, one of your key crafting ingredients is the fingers you've won from defeated demons. The more fingers you can acquire, the better the dice you can craft. It all sounds splendidly horrible, and I'm already a fan of the game's dithered, 1-bit art-style. There's no release date for Dead Finger Dice right now, but curiously, it isn't the only demon-themed virtual boardgame currently in development. Only a few weeks ago, Bioshock veterans Question announced The Killing Stone, another spooky roguelike that's about playing a virtual tabletop game against the denizens of hell. 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This deckbuilding card battler where you bargain with the devil looks like Inscryption mixed with Battle Chess I'm hooting and hollering for this upcoming RPG about staging heists in the underworld from the publishers of Dwarf Fortress and the designers of one of the best narrative games of all time The next videogame getting its own tabletop RPG is Diablo, an RPG that doesn't have any RP in it Playstack, not content with obliterating my free time via Balatro, is publishing another roguelike about coin pusher machines I think Dungeons and Dragons peaked in 1982 and that's why I can't wait to play this 'hand-drawn black and white dungeon crawler' coming next year Hellraiser is finally getting a videogame after 40 years, and I only have one request for Saber Interactive Latest in Puzzle Strange Antiquities review: Solve dozens of little mysteries in a creepy yet cozy curio shop One of my favorite puzzle games ever is free for the week on the Epic Games Store Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for September 27 (#1561) Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for September 26 (#1560) Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for September 25 (#1559) Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for September 24 (#1558) Latest in News EA is reportedly about to be sold in a record-setting $50 billion buyout to an investor group that includes private equity and Saudi Arabia Silksong player uses every speedrunning trick in the book to lock poor Hornet in bug jail forever: 'I don't know why anyone would want to do this, but I have done it anyway' REPO devs are adding a new mechanic that'll let you grab things while tumbling and—more importantly—kill things with butt physics Brazil's president has signed a ban on selling loot boxes to minors as part of a larger online child safety law Path of Exile 2 is making a surprise Atlas overhaul next week to liberate its players from tower tyranny Worst people alive hack nursery chain and start posting pictures and personal info of literal toddlers on the dark web HARDWARE BUYING GUIDES LATEST GAME REVIEWS Best gaming laptop in 2025: I've had my hands on the best laptops for gaming of this generation and these are the ones I recommend Best SSD for gaming in 2025: the fastest and the best value solid state drives to perk up your PC Best Hall effect keyboards in 2025: the fastest, most customizable keyboards for competitive gaming Best PCIe 5.0 SSD for gaming in 2025: the only Gen 5 drives I will allow in my PC Best graphics cards in 2025: I've tested pretty much every AMD and Nvidia GPU of the past 20 years and these are today's top cards Corsair Sabre V2 Pro Ultralight Wireless gaming mouse review Glorious Model O3 Wireless review Hades 2 review Final Fantasy Tactics – The Ivalice Chronicles review Baby Steps review PC Gamer is part of Future plc, an international media group and leading digital publisher. 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