{"id":1338345,"date":"2025-09-27T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/3PrKTST4otgNpA7aVWHdtE"},"modified":"2025-09-27T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T13:00:00","slug":"the-witchers-forgotten-minigame-gets-a-grisly-revival-where-you-bet-your-own-digits-trying-to-roll-high-scoring-poker-hands-against-demonic-billionaires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/the-witchers-forgotten-minigame-gets-a-grisly-revival-where-you-bet-your-own-digits-trying-to-roll-high-scoring-poker-hands-against-demonic-billionaires\/","title":{"rendered":"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"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Fans of The Witcher 3<\/a> 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\u2014Dice 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.<\/p>\n

While it’s unlikely we’ll ever see Dice Poker get an official spinoff in the way Gwent did<\/a>, it does finally have its own dedicated roguelike. Dead Finger Dice<\/a> is an Inscryption<\/a>-ish mix of digital tabletop gaming and spooky narrative puzzling, with a gnarly twist where you use your character’s fingers as betting currency.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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