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Calypso is a roguelike dice-builder where you play as an office worker rolling dice to score points, selecting one side per stage and not reusing it. Stages award relics (permanent upgrades). Between stages, spend money on dice upgrades and cards to bend the rules. Seeded runs and many upgrades.

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Jaromir Mulders

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Calypso

Calypso is a roguelike dice-builder that fuses strategic risk management with a satirical office setting. Drawing inspiration from Balatro, the board game Pickomino, and the Series Severance, it invites you to sculpt a scoring engine from dice, relics, and clever card play.

You play as an office worker who keeps running a cryptic dice game in search of the highest possible score. The core idea is to craft powerful synergies that feel like a looping Rube Goldberg machine—each decision unlocks new opportunities while pulling you toward bigger rewards. Every run is a fresh climb through stages, where your choices matter just as much as luck.

How it plays: Each stage begins with rolling dice and selecting one face to score. Once that face is scored in the stage, it cannot be scored again for the rest of the stage, forcing you to chain together increasingly tight combinations. A stage is won when you accumulate enough points to earn a relic—the game-changing permanent upgrade that reshapes future runs. Relics aren’t just bonuses; they redefine what’s possible across stages, and some relics can be added multiple times to amplify their effects.

Between stages you earn money from your scoring and spend it on dice upgrades and cards. These upgrades bend the rules, unlock new abilities, and let you break the current run’s constraints. The path to victory is crafted by choosing how to invest: you can refine your dice pool, unlock new faces, and deploy cards that alter scoring, modify dice behavior, or grant extra options on future rolls. Each decision compounds, unlocking fresh tactics and pushing the limit on what a single run can achieve.

Key features:

  • Unlockable Upgrades, Relics and Cards to customize every run
  • Seeded runs for reproducible challenges and strategic planning
  • 100+ dice upgrades to expand your scoring toolkit
  • 60+ game-changing relics (with stacking options for powerful combos)
  • 100+ cards that modify rules, unlock new tactics, and shatter expectations
  • Captivating gritty visuals set in a mysterious office workspace

Calypso challenges you to balance risk, timing, and stacked effects across a procedurally rich, replayable loop. It rewards deep planning, bold experimentation, and a knack for turning ordinary dice into extraordinary scoring machines—within a workplace world that looks as tense as it feels.