If you lost a chunk of last year to Balatro, the card-based video game roguelike that turned poker hands into a compulsion, here is a tabletop cousin built for one. Rolling Deep, from Bitewing Games, is a solo dice-building roguelike that has raced past $400,000 (about £310,000) on Kickstarter against a $15,000 goal, and the campaign is in its final days, closing on 17 July 2026.
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Find events near youYou lead a trio of daring adventurers, their heads literally dice, down into the heart of a volcano after glory and treasure. The run is split into five chapters, and each one ends with a boss that bends the rules for that round. Between chapters you visit a shop to buy reroll potions and permanent dice upgrades, steadily building a nastier engine as you descend. There are hundreds of cards to unlock through achievements, so the replay hook is doing a lot of the heavy lifting, much as it does in the video game that inspired it. A game runs around 45 minutes and it is aimed at ages 10 and up.
Rolling Deep is designed by Australian game designer Peter C. Hayward, and it kicks off Bitewing's new "Table for One" line, a range built exclusively for solo players rather than the usual solo-mode-bolted-on approach. That is a pointed bet on just how big solo board gaming has become, and the funding total suggests the studio has read the room correctly. It drew a crowd before launch too, reaching the top of the BoardGameGeek hotness list ahead of the campaign.
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Set up your group for freeBackers are looking at a 2027 delivery. If solo nights are your thing, this is the campaign to watch before it wraps this week.
Sources: Rolling Deep on Kickstarter | Mr. Boardgames | Tabletop Analytics
