About Dice Chemist
# Dice Chemist
**About the Game**
Dice Chemist is a roguelike dice-poker game about turning lucky rolls into powerful combos. Roll five dice, hold the ones you want, and chase poker hands — pairs, straights, full houses, five of a kinds — while alchemical catalysts twist the rules in your favor. Build a run over twelve rounds, survive punishing hell difficulties and boss trials, and see how far your combos can carry you into the endless beyond.
**Key Features**
- **Dice Poker at Its Core** — Hold, reroll, and discard your way to the best five-dice hand, from High Card to Five of a Kind.
- **Catalyst Synergies** — Place catalysts in a deliberate order to chain their effects; certain pairs fuse into entirely new catalysts with mechanics neither original had alone.
- **Elemental Alchemy** — Collect Fire, Water, Earth, and Air dice to trigger elemental reactions like Steam, Lava, Mist, and Sandstorm.
- **Special & Cursed Dice** — Gold dice that pay out on every scoring hand, fragile Glass dice with a huge multiplier and a chance to shatter, Obsidian dice that double their value but can never be rerolled, and more.
- **Chemistry Cards** — Permanently upgrade your hand size, reroll count, play count, and more with over 20 one-time alchemy cards.
- **Hell Difficulties** — Take on runs where only even (or odd) numbers count, where one number is sealed away entirely, or where every catalyst falls silent.
- **Boss Trials** — Face a different boss gimmick every round: sealed numbers, inverted scoring, frozen interest, corroding dice, and more.
- **Ascension & Endless Mode** — Push past a standard 12-round clear into escalating ascension tiers, or keep going forever in Endless Mode for a new high score.
- **Puzzle Mode** — Solve hand-crafted dice puzzles with a fixed target score and a limited toolkit.
- **Multiple Profiles & Steam Achievements** — Track your progress across separate save profiles, with 21 Steam achievements to unlock.
**In-Game Languages**
Korean, English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese