The game plays in real-time, seeing you as Even have to dodge and weave between the queen’s mechanical foot soldiers, shooting glowing crystals off these foes with your slingshot so that you can power up Dicey with the energy that is dropped. This mechanic is crucial to Lost in Random as it’s a core component to the combat. Alike the queen and her notorious black dice, Dicey is tied to Even, with the pair connected by a bond similar to that of a Pokemon and its trainer, and the reason that connection is important is because Dicey can only affect and manipulate the world after Even has gathered enough energy and rolled it. Dicey is an adorable creature that speaks in mumbles and finds itself in all kinds of daft situations that are hard not to find hilarious a lot of the time. With such a momentous task expected of Even, she does of course have some help along the way, help in the form of Dicey, one of the remaining living all-powerful dice that are thought to be extinct after the queen led a war against them years before the events of the game. At the beginning of the game, this massive event is thrust upon Odd, the sister of the game’s protagonist Even, who ends up being snagged from her home after rolling a six and being moved to Sixtopia (the fanciest of the six regions of Random), leading Even to go on an incredible adventure to return her sister back to her family in Onecroft.

As part of these laws constructed by the queen, it’s expected that every child will roll the magical dice at the age of 12 to determine which of the six regions of Random they will call home for the rest of their lives. But, before I get to those thoughts, what exactly is Lost in Random about? The narrative is set in the world of Random, a grim and unusual place governed by an all-powerful queen who uses a magical dice to set the rules of the land.

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