Roll similar games & best alternatives

Roll

2021

Should you play it?

Roll Dice. Get Dopamine. Roll is a highly replayable, deeply strategic, and ultra satisfying dicebuilding game!

What works

  • Deep strategic gameplay
  • Relaxing atmosphere and music
  • High replayability with varied builds
  • Active and responsive developer
  • Good value for price

Things to keep in mind

  • Slow and repetitive animations
  • Some upgrade descriptions unclear
  • Lack of meta-progression or save system
  • Leaderboard cheating reported
  • Limited social or cooperative features

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • The Farmer Was Replaced

  • RollScape

  • Wordatro!

  • Ballionaire

  • Lines X Free

  • Hive

Less status-driven

Games that feels like Roll but with less focus on status and recognition

  • Budgie's Bug Shop

  • Max Manos

  • Dice A Million

  • Incredicer

  • Aotenjo: Infinite Hands

  • Lyca

More survival-focused

Games that feels like Roll but with a stronger survival pressure

  • Merge Maestro

  • Dodge It!

  • Sword Rogue

  • Linea, the Game

  • Meme Mayhem

  • Balatro

Less competitive

Games that feels like Roll but with less competition against others

  • Dice People

  • Captain Whiskers: Incremental Seas

  • Wordle 3

  • Wordle

  • Pincremental

  • Gamblers Table

Choose your own criteria ->

Similarity map

How to compare these games

Compare nearby games

Each card is a nearby game on the similarity map, compared with Roll. Swipe sideways to move between games. Titles already listed in What to play next are left out.

  • Cover and title: open that game’s page.
  • What works / keep in mind: the same highlights as the desktop comparison panel.
  • Bars: the main motivational differences versus this game.
How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Swipe to compare nearby games with Roll. These titles are not in What to play next.

Roll: Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Fantasy, Thrill, Story. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Status, Competition, Thrill.

Last update: 21/08/2026