Well put together, and feels good to play. Despite the randomness, it never felt unfair. If anything, I echo what some others have said that the magic attacks the player has may be overpowers but I don't think I'd get rid of them (maybe just make a sword attack more likely to be rolled).

I'm not sure how you could do it, but I would greatly appreciate a way to predict where enemies will move to before I finish my turn. As is, it doesn't feel great to be entirely at the mercy of rng during enemy turns unless I run as far away as possible from them.

Nice game !

The gameplay is quite easy to understand and delve into & there's a nice little amount of strategy into it. The tutorial is really efficient and well made. The visuals looks really neat and the sfx fits well. the music doesn't really convey the mood of the game but it sounds fine anyway.

in terms of feedbacks, there's not much to say. It's pretty well rounded.

As mentionned by others bellow, the sword feels really weak and I ended up not really using past a few levels.  Compared to it the fire spell feels really powerfull (maybe limiting the fire range and proiding a way to upgrade the sword would help with balancing the game)

Some random loot/upgrade would really help in term of replayability.

All in all it's a really well rounded game. Great work :)

I really liked the tutorial! I just didn't get how did speed works for the monsters because with 3 speed (rats) they seemed to track me down anywhere on the map. But I probably just misread it anyway.

I got to level 5 but then I quit due to the lack of progression. Probably wasn't on the roadmap for this jam, but in games like these it feels important to have some upgrade of some sort, whether it is increased damage or more spells.

I felt the music was a bit lackluster for the action, but I figure it's hard to have a song that encompasses both the strategy section and the action section. Also you could add sound effects to player walking and monsters dying, it  feels a bit too quiet sometimes. I liked the spells, I just wish ice and thunder felt as powerful as fire, especially because ice depends on getting a nice roll on the next turn because then monsters already thaw.

The sword attack feels really weak, which I can understand considering you are a wizard, but it feels useless when the monster has more than 1 hp.

All in all, I had some fun with it, and it works really smoothly. The pacing is nice and I never felt like I was losing due to unfairness of the random rolls.

I made it to level 10. I think the gameplay's pretty decently intuitive, especially with the tutorial explaining things, so I had no issue figuring out how to play. Was confused on why blank dice were showing up when they do nothing, but maybe in the future you can modify the dice in some way? That is, in game, the player could collect another die or use an upgrade somehow to change faces.

Some things about balance: once you start getting a few levels in, your sword attack becomes less and less useful. With its low output damage the game kind of becomes mostly running away from enemies and hoping you get fire and lightning magic. I like the whole pick 5 mechanic, though, which helps add strategy to the randomness.

I think sword attacks should maybe be a little more powerful for the risk it takes to get close to an enemy, and also maybe the ice attack should have a slightly greater range because it doesn't feel anywhere near as useful as fire and lightning. Or to give the sword more importance, maybe there should be more low defense but high attack enemies (I think the spider might have been one, but it still had >1 HP so the sword is a dangerous tactic on it).

I would say a way to heal would be nice, but the tutorial implied that endless is not the final form of the game's campaign, so that's less important right now if it'll be structured differently anyway.

Also, even though you did explain what he speed stat meant in the tutorial, I still found it a little tricky to try and predict where I'd be safe from an enemy and where not. It was dependent on the die roll of the enemy of course, but was movement based on speed multiplied by the die?

Anyway, balance is a tricky thing to fine tune because every new thing you add could potentially break something. But I also recommend checking out Mini Dice Battle, also in the post-jam -- it has a similar idea except you control multiple characters, and coins scattered about the battlefield encourage you to move to different places.

But I do want to mention that it's nice to see you have a decent number of enemy types, and they're introduced gradually with increasing difficulty, easing you into the game.