Enemy moves vs Kraken: hidden ??? equipment and shock slots

About this game

Developer: Terry Cavanagh · Publisher: Terry Cavanagh · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Comic & cartoon · Screen type: Battle / Tactics

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What to study

The enemy turn gets the same board, read from the other side. The Kraken's moves are shown as equipment cards whose names are withheld ('???'), the player is trusted to plan from slot conditions alone: an EVEN slot still waiting, a 6 already placed and flagged 'Cursed!', a 5 placed on the last card, and one card already resolved and darkened with its 3 and 4 still inside. That is enemy intent expressed in the game's one shared language of dice and slots, with no separate telegraph icon system. The frame's sharpest idea is at the left edge: shock, the status locking the Thief's equipment, is cleared not with a button but with two more dice slots ('Place a dice to release shock'), so healing a status and dealing damage draw on the exact same pool of rolled dice, every cure is visibly an attack not made. Frame at about 0:11.5 in the Reunion Trailer (Steam; manual extraction from the 2 fps probe pass over the window 9–13.5s).

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

dice-check intent-icons

Components

Parts on screen.

Card Banner Slots Dice

Screen inventory

• under the ENEMY MOVES banner at top centre, the Kraken's equipment is dealt face-down as grey cards titled only '???', the names are hidden, and all the player can plan around is the slot conditions: a hatched EVEN slot on the centre card, a placed die showing 6 marked 'Cursed!' on the next, and a placed 5 on the card at right
• one enemy card below centre has already fired and gone dark, its two spent dice (a 3 and a 4) still sitting in it, resolved enemy equipment greys out instead of leaving the board, so the enemy's remaining threats can be counted at a glance
• the left column is not equipment at all but two stacked black slots reading 'Place a dice to release shock', removing a status effect costs the player one of their own dice, in direct competition with spending that die on damage
• the Thief anchors the bottom-left at 32/36 with a glowing BERSERK bar and a star + lightning-2 counter row beneath it, his dice pool marked x4 and his two unspent dice (a 5 and a 1) waiting at bottom centre; the Kraken's 44/44 bar and x4 counter sit top-right, TURN 2, END TURN at the corners

Top 3 colors

#1c1c30 27%#5d4749 24%#9f666e 15%

Top three palette colors by share. The remaining colors make up the rest.

Source and credit

© Terry Cavanagh, Dicey Dungeons screenshot: Steam trailers (Reunion Trailer / Launch Trailer), Terry Cavanagh, shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Terry Cavanagh.

Source tier 2 (publisher-released) · screenshot: Steam store page · Steam page

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-25. verified 2026-10-25: manual extraction manual-kraken-enemy-11.png @ ~11.5s in the Reunion trailer, MD5 0bf94bd2247659470cbf7b72cd8518bd, from the verified-clean curl-shim download (25,718,508 B, MD5 9c9c91c68a8f3892b16aae9d1cd6a233; full decode to null exit 0, zero error lines, decode-steam-861540-Reunion-Trailer.mp4.err), inspected visually at full resolution (1920x1080 native); the ENEMY MOVES banner, both 'Place a dice to release shock' slots, the ??? cards with EVEN slot, placed 6 ('Cursed!') and placed 5, the darkened resolved card with its 3 and 4, Thief 32/36 + BERSERK and Kraken 44/44 + x4 all legible; no trailer text or marketing overlay in frame

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