Dicetopia is a worker placement, area control game.
Title: Dicetopia
Year Published: 2018
Designer: Tobias Hall
Publisher: All Or None Games
Players: 2-4
Game Time: ~30 mins
Set-up Time: ~5 mins
Ages: 14+
Theme: Cyberpunk
Mechanisms: Area Control, Dice Rolling, Set Collection, Worker Placement
How to win: Score the most points by controlling neighbourhoods, collecting dice and completing missions.
Game Description
The neon-clad city of Dicetopia lies before you. A seething cauldron of petty thieves, devious corporations, and ruthless smugglers. Or in other words, the city of opportunity for you and your factions highly questionable motives! Unleash your agents to take over neighborhoods, snatch loot, perform shifty actions and carry out sneaky missions. Be the unbridled predator, you’ve hopefully never dreamt of being in real life, and lay the city before your feet!
Set Up, Game Play & Game End
Round Up
I always talk about how I don’t own any worker placement games. I don’t have anything against them, just that none of them are for me.
The only one I’ve had for any length of time was Argent: The Consortium. I loved that game and the theme but it was so fiddly and table-hogging that I eventually sold it. When you have a game that’s a chore to teach it needs to be worth the effort and it wasn’t.
Dicetopia isn’t exactly a standard Worker Placement game as I see them, but it’s the closest I have.
It’s a very pretty game, right? It’s set in a neon city and it is very sparkly. The dice make it look great as do the cubes. Now, in my images and videos, I use mini meeples for workers. There was an additional add-on but a required one for me. they don’t cost that much but they look great!
The rulebook is decent and the setup is very easy. There isn’t much to remember apart from the number of dice you leave out of the game depending on the player count.
Everything else is written on the boards. Each neighbourhood action is on the board, each player’s power is self-explanatory as are the mission cards.
Tactically it’s also very fun. You’re as much building yourself up as you are tearing your opponents down. At the same time, you’re looking to control neighbourhoods. Plenty to think about with your 6 actions.
Yep, 6 actions each not only make each action vitally important, it also means the game time is around 30 minutes. Not too bad.
Tiny box too!
Rating: I give it 8/10
Dicetopia First Impression Essen 2018
Jesta ThaRogue