If you’ve got a penchant for the stop-motion animated stylings of Tim Burton and Henry Selick then you’ll immediately fall in love with the character and setting designs of Lost in Random. One of the biggest draws to Lost in Random is likely to be the art style. Dropping in a card trap that weakens the enemy before wailing on them with a magical hammer is a trick that never gets old, and when the dice rolls are in your favour the frivolities feel suitably fantastic. When you do get to unleash your cards and abilities upon the enemy, everything makes sense. It manages to stay just on the right side of being annoying, but there are times where you’re going to feel a bit hard done by. You can charge your cards up, and then fall foul of a poor roll from Dicey that leaves you with little option other than to start again. The issue is at times that it can feel a little slow. It’s a refreshingly different approach to combat, and it certainly works to keep you working and thinking through encounters from start to finish. It doesn’t take long before she finds herself joined by Dicey, a living dice that opens up an array of hitherto-unimaginable options to her. Even can’t accept her sister’s fate, and after fitful dreams is led off on an adventure by a ghostly apparition.

Odd rolls a 6 and finds herself being collected by the Queen herself to go and live with her, leaving her family behind. As Odd turns 12, the Queen’s consort rolls into town, ready to roll the dice that dictates where her life will be lived out. While that wouldn’t be enough on its own, Zoink has hung an interesting deck-building combat system on those dice-led designs while crafting an intriguing and inviting world, making Lost in Random a fantasy action game that’s worth taking a gamble on.Įven and Odd are sisters, living with their parents in Onecroft, the lowest rung on Lost in Random’s six-tier hierarchical society. The creator has become synonymous with a particularly characterful brand of dark fantasy, from The Nightmare Before Christmas through to Frankenweenie and Corpse Bride, and Lost in Random evokes the exact same stop-motion gothic vibes. Someone at Zoink sure loves the work of Tim Burton.

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