Yacht Dice turns a familiar dice pastime into a casual, competitive game built around the scorecard. Its stated premise is straightforward: players roll, record scores, and aim to finish with the highest total. The presentation adds 3D graphics and animated dice, with physical collisions synchronized over the network to evoke the feel of dice meeting in the real world.
Each round gives a player up to three rolls, but they can stop after one or two. After a roll, they choose which dice to keep and which to throw again, with the option to reroll dice regardless of whether they were rerolled earlier. Once the third roll is complete, the player selects a category on a twelve-box scorecard; the result depends on how well the five dice meet that category’s rule. Filling the card takes twelve rounds, so decisions about when to settle for a result and where to record it shape the contest.
The game supports solo play as well as online competition and play with invited friends, and its listed options also include local shared-screen play and cooperative modes.