A downloadable game for Windows and macOS


Match or Die is a relaxing match-3 game where you roll a dice instead of swapping tiles. Pick the dice you want to roll and replace it with one of the neighbours dice. If you fail to make any match, you lose a shield,  or worst ... DIE.


By Rolling the 4, the player might replace it by one of its neighbour, a 6 a 5 or a 3. The 6 has 50% chance to replace the 4 because there is two 6.

Pick carefully the dice you want to roll by checking which one have a higher chance to make a match.

Too easy? Press [3] on the title screen to switch the hard mode or [1] to make it even chiller.

Scoring when dice are matched, the game adds their dots to the score. A dice of 6 is worth 6 points, 5 is worth 5 points, etc. There is no multiplier or combo system.

Controls

Just use your mouse to pick the dice you want to roll, that's it!

  • [e] - Toggle postprocessing effect (it can be glitchy on some computers)
  • [r] - Restart
  • [1] - Relax Mode
  • [2] - Normal Mode
  • [3] - Hard Mode

Note: Changing the difficulty mode will reset your Highscore

Credits

Music "Cool Vibes" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Sound effects by Kenney (Kenney.nl)

Typeface monogram https://datagoblin.itch.io/monogram


Download

Download
match-or-die-win.zip 11 MB
Version 5 Jul 17, 2022
Download
match-or-die-mac.zip 13 MB
Version 5 Jul 17, 2022
Download
match-or-die.love 7.6 MB
Version 5 Jul 17, 2022

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This is actually a pretty clever take on the match-3 genre! I've been playing it off and on, and it's really addicting - I've been slowly learning how to turn unsafe rolls into guaranteed matches by using my shields wisely. Of course, there's still some luck involved, and you can lose a 3/4 good roll four times in a row... but that's just the risk you run, right?