Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles

Each run in Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles puts you in combat where you roll a pool of dice and spend the results to either purify enemies or absorb corruption yourself. Purification acts as both offensive pressure and self-healing; corruption does the reverse, damaging you while buffing enemies. The tension comes from deliberately taking corruption to trigger skills embedded in your health bar, which unlock powerful abilities—but push too far and the run ends. Every decision about when to take hits and when to purge them defines the moment-to-moment rhythm.

Developed by Little Leo Games and released September 21, 2023, the game replaces the card-based hand management of most deckbuilders with a dice pool you assemble from over 350 individual dice. Three dice types govern risk tolerance: one is consistent, one balanced, and one high-variance with outsized payoffs. Individual die faces can be edited directly, letting you skew the odds of specific results rather than simply hoping for them. Six playable Oracles each bring distinct starting pools and abilities, ranging from spellcasting styles to aggressive berserker approaches, and twenty support Sentinels add passive dice rolls to a run. Over 170 blessings modify fundamentals further, split between low-cost Star Blessings and high-power Black Hole Blessings that carry drawbacks. Enemies roll their own dice and telegraph intent, and those dice can be manipulated—redirecting an enemy’s attack before it resolves is a real tactical option, not just a tooltip footnote. Sixteen difficulty tiers let experienced players stress-test builds systematically.

Players who prefer pure card sequencing and dislike probability management tend to bounce off the game, since variance is structural rather than incidental.

The update history shows sustained investment well past launch. Throughout late 2024 and into 2025, Little Leo Games pushed regular bug fixes and hotfixes. A long beta period for reworks and rebalancing ran from early 2025 through mid-2026, with the v1.2.x branch receiving repeated balance passes before a significant reworks update landed in June 2026. The game also expanded to mobile in mid-2025 and received a physical Nintendo Switch edition around the same time, indicating the studio pursued platform growth alongside mechanical refinement.