A dice-and-cards board game brawler that stays charming for hundreds of hours, if you can live with how much luck decides.
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100% Orange Juice runs a board game underneath a card battler: you roll dice around a shared map, land on event and battle tiles, and fight other players' characters with a hand of attack, defense, and support cards. Dozens of playable characters each carry a distinct passive, from stat-boosting gimmicks to entirely different win conditions, and the roster keeps every match feeling like a different game depending on who's at the table.
Victory comes through "norma" cards, star-shaped milestones that push toward one of several win paths, so a match rewards planning a route as much as winning fights along it. Steam Workshop support, a spectator mode, and 359 achievements give the systems room to sprawl well past a single sitting, and in 2023 developer Fruitbat Factory made every one of the 50-plus paid character voice packs permanently free once the game crossed two million copies sold, a real goodwill move that undid years of piecemeal DLC pricing in one update.
The dice-and-cards foundation cuts both ways. A 200-plus-hour Steam reviewer summed up the frustration as feeling "not in control of anything," pointing to a shared card-draw pool, warp tiles that scramble position without warning, and combat rolls that can swing a fight regardless of preparation. Digitally Downloaded raised the same complaint from a design angle, noting the game runs against a modern board-game trend toward limiting luck rather than leaning into it. Matches run long once four players are seated, the soundtrack loops noticeably over extended sessions, and the voice acting and light story trappings sit well below the strength of the core systems. Chasing full completion also means buying into more than 40 paid DLC packs released across a decade, a real cost even with the voices now free.
Steam holds it at 94 percent Very Positive among English-language reviews and roughly 91 percent across all languages, spanning close to 30,000 reviews. Critic coverage stays thin: Metacritic tracks a single review at 70, alongside a separate, smaller user score sitting lower at 6.8.
Buy it. The character roster and the norma race give it staying power few party games match, and the luck it leans on is a real design choice to weigh rather than a flaw to overlook.