A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux

"Arcane Dice Wars: Gacha Date!" is a fluffy spinoff game where you get a second chance at love with some of the series' most popular characters!

Features:

✿  ~88k words

✿  6 endings (16 achievements)

✿  18 collectable CGs in gallery

✿  ~ 2 hours+ of gameplay

✿  Original music + royalty free @ pixabay


Our project for OtomeJam 2024!

This project was made over the span of 2 months (May 1st - July 1st 2024)!

This is the 3rd game in the ADW series! Please check out the other 2 titles below!:

 

 
Credits:

Writing, animation, art assist, programming: CoffeedripStudios

Main Art, GUI, programming: Ekkoberry

Art assist, play testing: Raspberrybell

Music main themes: Corasundae

Copy Editor: De'Gloughan

Voice talent: Dale Strombeck,  Austin Conner, Chad Rajski, Orrin Scott

Additional resources: _ess_VN assets, Feniks, RenpyTom, bobcgames

Content Warning: Suggestive/Mature Themes 

 
I hope you enjoy it! ♥

StatusReleased
PlatformsWindows, macOS, Linux
Release date Jun 30, 2024
Rating
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(25 total ratings)
AuthorsEkkoberry, raspberrybell, coffeedripstudios
GenreVisual Novel
Made withRen'Py
TagsAmare, Cute, josei, LGBT, Otome, Romance, Singleplayer
Average sessionA few hours
LanguagesEnglish
InputsKeyboard, Mouse, Xbox controller, Gamepad (any)
AccessibilitySubtitles

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Arcane Dice Wars: Gacha Date! (PC) 226 MB
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Arcane Dice Wars: Gacha Date! (MAC) 221 MB
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Arcane Dice Wars: Gacha Date! (LINUX) 199 MB

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Replaying the game again, rly adore it :>

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Hi YURUL,

Aww, we're so happy you enjoy it! Thanks for sharing the screenshot too! Nice sticker collection! <3 Any favorite route?

Thank you! And my favorite has definitely got to be Lor, he's such a sweetheart :D

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omg i love Ruwin soo much i desperately need more of him. When I first saw him when he wasn't trying to kill me i was shocked by his beauty. Also his voice!!! Im literally addicted to it now. I spent this week binging all of the games in the ADW series and the only thing I'm disappointed with is that i didn't find it sooner. Every game has been sooo much fun but this one finally gave me what i wanted which is Ruwin !! 

Even the mini game was fun and i found myself trying to get passed 22 which i never did ;; The different emails were so much fun to read, it almost felt like they were reading my mind at times.... anyways super nice touch!!

Since I'm a total completionist I was wondering if there was any guides for the achievements ? I'm still struggling to get some ;; 

Many thanks in advance ~!

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Hi Yeonjunney! I'm so glad that you enjoyed playing the ADW games so far. I personally never got passed 21 clicks myself but some of us got higher than 30! (with the use of a controller) *eyes Ekkoberry *o* Here's a guide for achievements I whipped up, but please let me know if there's any issues or if I should make any more clarifications. ADW: Gacha Date! Achievement Guide 1.1 And Thank you for giving Ruwin love <3!!

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RUWIN FANS RISE UP.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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I planned to comment long ago already, and I finally am doing so now! First things first, you guys did amazing :D thank you so much for all the work you put into it💓

I really enjoyed to read what the characters were saying (especially Lor *coughs*) and I had lotsa fun with the ad clicking game XD

At the end I almost missed it, but I was surprised to see my username in the credits!! I was very delighted<3

Wishing everyone who worked on the game the best c: I hope you have many sunny and good days ahead!!

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Hi SoluneMoon!

Glad you had a chance to try out the game and share some of your thoughts! We always appreciate reading it. Also glad you enjoyed the character interactions and the ad clicker mini game. What's your top score? Hope you see you back in ADW~ best wishes to you too!

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Hey, i noticed a bug in Ashur's date whenever i try to dress him up. When i click, it automatically pet his.... uh... lower region even when i've used the pet option already.
After that, the game didn't register that i've dressed him up and kept on giving me the option even when Ashur's sprite displayed the item i dressed him up in (Example: The Proud Badge item).

Overall good game, i've played the previous ADW games and to say i'm obsessed is an understatement.
I love how you execute each character's design and personality.
Especially Jeth, he's the literal definition of my taste in men...
(Yandere-esque, Ambitious, Fluffy hair).
Plus Ruwin, his story and development intrigues me.

(I would also like to thank you for the smexy CGs).
I made an edit of Ruwin and Jeth to promote this game to my friends lol, hope you like it! 

https://x.com/MusicMan948684/status/1809995938779562054

Best Regards, Star

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Hi Star,

Thank you so much for sharing that edit! I love how you defined the characters in the captions.  Also thank you for pointing out the bug you found! We actually had another message sent earlier, so the update that we uploaded on 7-6-24 should've fixed the Ashur issue. That naughty and chaotic guy! Glad you liked the spicier art that we added to the gallery. Clearly we had too much extra time in the last week of the jam LOL. Thanks for sharing your favs and thank you again for showing your support of ADW <3

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Hellooo! after the finishing all 5 endings ı decided to finally come back here and write my thoughts! ı guess this one will be my new peak in massive paragraphs?

with lots of typos and almost having a heart attack with accidentaly closing the website before sending all these (thankfully itciho saved my comment) here is my endless writing XD

for anyone who wants to play this game and looks around in this comment section for getting the general idea about this game ı will start with my not- spoiler thinkings!

For starters who wants to learn about the game:

in this game you can go for a night dates in your room with 5 candidates which you will summon into your room you can either go for only one person to try them all in one month game gives you. but of course to be able to summon them you need to collect their soul stones from gacha game. as for the game money you can earn it with clicking mini game :3

game actually gives many cute little things for you that exploring them all takes very long time. in day times you get mails from Team OG which enlightens you about this dating game and also the background of your dating candidate's world and in night times you date with the dating candidates! you can either date several of them or go for only one and in each date section there is many choices like chatting with them, dressing them and giving them gifts and with doing that there is a chance that you can get few different reactions which can helps you to know your dating candidate's personality better and also makes it doesnt feel like repeating itself too much.

people who already played the main game already knows the characters but for people who doesnt know ı can say that they are all very unique in their own way ;) (psst ıf you like soft boys then going for Lor in the first playing is good option. Also personally, ı liked all routes since all characters have their own charm) 

Once you settle with one character you should check for their stats to make their bond level 6 (with doing all that chat, gift, dress options. plus you can also get affection by putting right decorations to your room that you will get from gacha ) once you reach bond level 6 you need wait for eternal pendants which will appear in middle of the month? (ı didnt count the days sorry) anyway once eternal pedants are avaible you need to find right pendant for your character and give them to it to confirm your route. but dont forget that giving pendant will show you the ending of the story so ıf you wanna keep explore then you can keep doing your night dates until the end of the month

ı know ı basically stayed on this part too much but ı decided to giving first explanation is good (?) option for anyone who is curious. also you dont really have to remember everything ı just write since Team OG also will teach you game mechanics in the game :3

info about the game section ends ^^
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As for my thoughts I really loved how Team OG sends mails to us every single day for many reasons like helping about game mechanics and talking about main game's story though ı cant say ıf all of their words are completely true (ım not sure) ı think most of the things they say has truth in it so ıt is actually very good to understand main game! actually ı cant say ı read all the mails since ı finished my routes usually in 28th day since ı started to got nagged at XD and decided to finish it with pendant. tbh ı really liked how friendly they talked with me despite interesting and concerning words ı found in their writings. ı feel like ı somehow ended up helping them ??? but ı cant really find how.

as for the dates ı actually was veery excited for them since ı was curious about how things will go and, in every route, ı learned a lot of interesting and surprising things about characters :D the ending CG's with animations were sooo cool and beautiful too x3

also after ı finished Lor's route and was reading the credits ı noticed my nickname there!!! AAAA THANK YOUU SO MUUUUCHHH ıt was a amazing suprise for me ^^ ı am sooo honoreeeeeedd!! ı also proudly showed it to people who are close to me -w- (unfortunalety they dont play visual novels ;-;)

Ok since ı cant help but talk about the game with spoilers ı have to put a warning for anyone who is reading this that from now on ı will talk spoilers about this game, main game and other side game called villain's heart


SPOİLEEEEERSSS!!! >-<
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ok since ıts easier for me to go one by one ı will go with all the characters ı see in this game and talk about what made me think :3

Team OG: Of course taking the assisting lead role in this game and breaking down a huge ADW lore in front of me Eve and Jonas certainly deserves to be talked about. although their using the term ''ending the world'' alot making me feel like ı ended being one of their tool, ı still want to think about them positively since in the whole game the vibe they give me was friendly (yes particularly there is a sinister and brutal side of them as ı kept clicking on dolls everyday ı did get good information about this). I would love to think that main character and they did attend a war as opposite sides but not because of they hated each other but for different ideals.

as for ending the world thing and a possible war that happened in the ADW world (in which ıt seems like they lost it and somehow telling me to not worry about things they lived?... well ı hope they didnt get hurt too much? ;w;) ı was actually interested that why Eve and Jonas is so focused on ''ending the world''? but then ı guess there is some several possbile reasons that ı can think of.

-firstly ıt can be simply because of developers are trying to end their existence for protecting the creations of the world and ı also remember they were sying that they didnt have a collective mind and ıt was simply a choice of majority so possibly they didnt actually wanted to have this terrible route but they had to since majority accepted this method. and now with the chance they got they are trying to break free from this cycle which is why they are trying to fight against developers and the system they created.

-secondly although ı actually didnt think about it before but with the one possible ending you can get in villain's heart game that you will simply born as a resident of that world things seem to start by all over except some certain changes? (like how you cant see Lor in that ending) so that made me think that perhaps the world itself is in a ''loop'' and perhaps this is why developers call is simulation since they are still trying to improve it by restarting it over and over while experimenting with different transient ones?  and maybe perhaps the endless reancarnations eve and jonas is talking about is related to this point? at first ı also thought that maybe there is several worlds with several transient ones but that theory doesnt make sense since how both we can be a side character with seeing another transient one or how we ended up meeting with Lor even though he was someone who became transient one before us. so there is possibly one world that is getting started over and over but then what happen ıf we choose keep being transient? does developers simply let us to continue ''simulation'' ? or we are only allowed to live in that world until the next restart? well also what really decides this restarts XD? soo many questions already. anyway perhaps what Eve and jonas was aiming as ''destroying the world'' perhaps they were talking about these loops? ım not sure either. 


plus ım still suspicious about how they said ''ıts not like you are accidentally ended up helping to destroying the world''... what do you mean?? ;W;

anyway overall ı actually like their personality and although there is a certain fight will happen between us ı do hope to still have a good relationship them (though them destroying soldiers is a bit... ı guess depends on the situation? :') ) with being unsure what will future me think about it but noticing that they are acting like forgiving and friendly is nice for present me XD


Lor: annd my favorite character! :3 the first encounter was very funny actually XD ı really find Lor's reactions adorable so ı was grinning in his whole route. but the moment that the things he said about his dreams and again that one specific choice you can choose in villain's heart got connected ı was at shock like ''WOW Lor was a transient one like meee!!''  ıt seems like he couldnt remember the time he was one but the story he told me that how he actually wanted a place where he wished to feel belong was so sad for me :'). ı was also sad when he immediately wanted to be with me saying he will pray to gods and ıt wouldnt hurt to at least try. the best part was that ı witnessed him slowly opening up to me and being braver than he usually would be. ı was really happy that with each bond level he expressed his emotions bit better and when ı gave him to pendant he finally opened his heart (well ıt was already obvious but Lor saying it by himself is whole another level) ı was also verry happy once he told me he will stand up for his feelings. yaaay finally ;w; !!!!  ım verry happy for this amazing ending! although ı was ready for supporting him in whatever road he chooses ım glad that he decided to keep being ''Lor'' ^^

Ashur: he was my second route and ı was actually curious about how he will think about this summoning things. in the first meeting he was veeery chaotic first trying to call eve and jonas to probably escape? XD but after realizing ıts not too bad he immediately became calm. although ı found talking with him very funny since his reacitons were pretty good and funny (he became a perfect drama queen time to time XD) ı started to feel bad for him with every day we contiuned to talk since ı noticed that he was barely respected by others and he was mainly ignored or maybe even got poor treatment in his life. ı also noticed although he is a captain he seemed to have trouble with sea food and looked like he was tiring himself alot. with all that info ı get ı actually started to respect him alot. facing lots of negative things and still pushing foward no matter what is something very admirable to me (even though he is technically on the ''enemy's'' side). with allthe things he lived ı actually find the ending so sweet. he somehow looked ''tranquil'' in the end with his acts looking like he get everything he wished for the life and how he expressed how he looks for the day he will spend with me. ı felt pretty happy for him in his end.


Katnir: as being my 3rd route ı actually had no idea how things will end up with katnir since also in the game he usually acted like carefree person while keeping the cards close to himself so when ı noticed he openly expressed the emotional pain he was going thorough with unrestful way ı was suprised. of course he did that due to thinking that he was going thorough another dream. but with slowly realizing ıts the reality the immediately started to experiment how things work (which gave me tons of information XD) ı noticed that no matter how happy he was he kept his distance at some level fearing that he will get hurt again. though his defence slowly lowered as he couldn't help but feel hopeful about the situation ad couldn't hold himself much. ı was very sad to learn that how much pain he felt that he started to have grudge but also was pretty ready to put it behind with a even tiny small hope he had. seeing how much he actually loved the main character was hurtful ;w; . well ı do kind of hope that he actually loved the main character so much with main character opening is romance route but not giving him pendant.. ıf he did love main character so much even without this scenario then ı definitely have to finish his route in the main game right after Lor's >-< (ı already plan to but ı will put him to the second). ı also loved his eagerness to believe he will somehow have a life with me even tho he has to leave forest behind. ım also amazed how reversed he is even in the ending XD he kind reminded me tsundere characters but he is not so extreme level his acts kind remind me of when you pet an animal and they look super calm but their tail wags crazily. ı also like how eager he was to have a family with the main character and worked hard for it.

Jeth: although ı dont have much good memories with him that didnt mean that ı wouldnt try his route. in the ehole route jeth was interestingly calmer than ı thought he would be (in the ending too) but talking with him also give me alots of answer for my villain's heart questions since he was apparently trying to get into my world (?)  with requesting mage tower like how he did in the side game and he actually wanted to kill the queen because she didnt want to give much money to them (although she is a mage too ^^;)) ı was happy that he actually realized that he was pushing too much the main character and apologized for it (ı wish he could notice it in the side game too but ı guess due to having limited time and rivals made him feel stressed?)  with him being calm ı could still see his 5 star yandere traits here and there. in the end jeth's route was nice (and his maid outfit is my favorite one XD since ı like cats unfortunalety he couldnt escape that maid outfit in whole route :3 thankfully he was ok with it) the ending was a little sus since he was talking about a game testing my mind immediately wandered to team OG  in which he was either playing a ADW or a game that they wanted him to test... well hopefully nothing will happen ;w;.

Ruwin: like in katnir's ı really wasnt sure what was waiting for me when ı picked ruwin and how he went super happy the second he saw me was sooo cute ;w; ı actually noticed that how open ruwin's acts are like ı could immediately tell what he would like and what he wouldnt like much and his talking and acting was very close to a well-trained dog (ı dont see it as an insult to be honest ı do find his personality close to a puppy XD) ı also loved how he tried his very best to do things he thinks ı like and trying to help me in his way when ıt comes to strength.  overall ruwins route was actually very cute suprise for me from how he shows his excitement and happiness with bear hugs to how careful he is when it comes to main character. his ending was also super cute ^^ ım happy that he finds the new home more welcoming and ı do hope he will never have to face bad people in his life.



overall it was an amazing week for me and thank you so much for all this work arts, music voicing (especially the fully voiced lines that characters said when they received pendant and ım still amazed how ruwin's and katnir's voice actor is the same person XD) everything was wonderful so ı really want to thank anyone who had contribution for this beautiful game ! 

ı also tried to do some fan arts but unfortunalety not being aducated in art and having not much color supplies ı couldnt finish all the fan arts ı intended to put here and only managed to finish Lor's so here is my two childish arts :3

1. the bunny Lor!! ^^ after seeing bunny sticker in his route ı decided to make a drawing about bunny Lor which ım actually proud with bunny (he couldn't be fully but still not bad) and because of ı struggled too much with hand and finally managing to draw something looks like a hand ı decided to keep it like that in which ended up with bunny Lor being very big compared to normal bunnies XD


2. ı found some chibi poses in the internet and decided put my own chibi with Lor although my chibi's skin clour ended bit darker than mine ı think ı did my best to draw and clour the art ^^ and ım proud of it too 




with all that drawing things ı again remembered how difficult creating an art is which is ım even more amazed that this game has animated arts XD

thank you for anyone who had enough patience to read all of these and again thank you for everyone for this amazing game!!

have a very amazing day ^^

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Oooh thank you so much for always sharing your thoughts extensively. The whole team was really happy and excited to read this post. <3<3<3 Thank you also for the adorable fanarts, I will print it out and hang it in my cubicle at work to cheer me on everyday XD we're really glad you enjoyed all the LI routes especially your fav, as we didn't want to disappoint! Best wishes and hope university work isn't too harsh!

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Im very glad to hear that everyone was happy with my thoughts ! ^^ and thinking that my fanarts will be with you to cheer you on makes me soo happy too that mean ı achieved my goal ı hoped ı will >w<

thankfully most difficult work ı had in university is over! yay ^^ although there seems to be always something ı have to catch up with ı think will do fine for now :3 thank you so muuch ^^

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where can i find the song from the loading screen.....??? 

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Hi Huta-chan! Glad you like the song by Corasundae~ we uploaded it to youtube for you. Thanks!

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WOAH THANKS

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Congratulations on the release, and for all the hard work that went into it from you all! It's an ADW game, so I pretty much have to play it; what a wonderful problem to have! ;p

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Thank you so much for all the copy edits! Hope you enjoy!

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Just did Lor's route and I adore the game! Planning to do the rest :)) i really loved the little details and I especially like Team OG, they are are so funny, I hope they appear more in the ADW game! (also the ads r so cute)

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I'm glad you like them!! <33 Thank you very much for checking it out!!

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Yurul, we are so glad you enjoyed Lor's route. And yes, Eve and Jonas will be making an appearance in ADW!

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Yaaay game is out! Im downloading it now ı also could use it preventing bad luck too XD LOL thank you for all the hard woork ! (I will come back once ı manage to finish all the routes starting with Lor's ^^) 

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I HOPE YOU LIKE IT You and everyone who voted for Lor was on my mind constantly while working on his stuff

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that makes me both so happy excited ^^ ım sure ı will like it !

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literally the best game ever made. it will enrich your life and prevent bad luck. also, when you finish this game you will be able to sense earthquakes before they happen. do not miss this experience

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its true I gained this power while working on this game

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Disclaimer: results may vary <3