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RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™

RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™

A rich paragraph of information which will try to charm and pique interest, trying to catch your eye in a sea of competition using a slew of buzzwords such as ‘bullet heaven’ and ‘in-depth meta-progression’, in a vain attempt to make you believe this game is any different from others in its genre.

Released May 1, 2023 Developer Pirate-Rob Publisher indie.io Platforms Windows Early AccessCasualAction RoguelikeBullet HellTwin Stick Shooter
View on Steam ↗ $4.99 (US · as of 2026-05-13)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via SteamSpy as of 2026-05-13.

74.2%positive260 reviews
Recommended · 0 found this helpful

“peak”

— a player, Steam review · 15 hrs played
Not recommended · 0 found this helpful

“Interesting meta-progression and essentially nothing else. Feels like one of those games following a trend with zero idea of why anyone likes the genre. The entire tone of the game from ingame text to the storepage feels written by the 15 year old who's too cool for school and…”

— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs played
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Player activity

Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-08-02 22:16 UTC · history via SteamCharts.

0playing at last check
228all-time peak
0 50 100 2024 67 avg · May 2023

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

Jun 25, 2026
RICE™: 20% Off in the Steam Summer Sale!

RICE™ is 20% off in the Steam Summer Sale, June 25 to July 9. Grab your copy and check out other great indie games on sale during the Summer Sale to add to your collection. https://store.steampowered.

May 02, 2025
V31: Curses and Rebalancing!

Greetings Dred- actually wait wrong game Today we have a new ascension, along with a few cards to go with it! Ascension: In-Jokes Each stack of In-Jokes gives you the 'Cursed' card, increase damage to

Nov 28, 2024
Buy this Repetitive Indie Combat Experience today!

RICE is now 20% off for the next week, pick it up if you haven't already! Naturally all of this is to goad you into a potentially bad financial decision but don't worry if you don't like it you could

Jun 17, 2024
V30: Cards, Qol and Changes!

Wake up babe, new RICE update Got a large platter of miscellaneous additions and changes for you this time to feast your eyes upon! New Helmet: Arrogance You can only find your starting weapon. Cannot

Apr 15, 2024
RICE is part of Freedom Games Publisher Sale!

Hi everyone - if you were thinking about getting the game, now is a great time to do so. The game will be 20% off from April 15th through the 22nd! Make sure to check out Freedom Games Publisher Sale

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Facts & details

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GenresAction, Casual, Indie, Early Access
Player tagsEarly Access · Casual · Action Roguelike · Bullet Hell · Twin Stick Shooter · Rogue-lite · PvE · Arcade · Top-Down · Parody · Controller · Action (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Partial Controller Support · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing
LanguagesEnglish
Estimated owners50,000 – 100,000 (SteamSpy)
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: OS *: Windows 10/7 Processor: 2.0 GHz Processor Memory: 2 GB RAM Graphics: Any graphics card DirectX: Version 9.0c Storage: 100 MB available space