- RICE™: 20% Off in the Steam Summer Sale! - 25 June 2026
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.com/app/2086140/
- V31: Curses and Rebalancing! - 2 May 2025
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 you by an extra 100% If you're keen-eyed you might notice a new element, Curse. Each stack of Curse gives you +7 damage. (As a reminder, paper cards count for 1/2 a stack) Once you have a cursed card, other curses will start appearing in the level up screen! New Cards: Curses There are 3 generic curse cards that just increase your damage taken to various degrees (giving you curse stacks and effectively damage in exchange) These 3 cards also let you qualify for curse medals appearing in the level up screen. The Cursed Gem Medal! A big pay off for stacking a ton of curses. Cursed Bronze, Silver and Gold tier medals, they can only show up mid-run and can't be bought. In regards to Frail: if y…
- Buy this Repetitive Indie Combat Experience today! - 28 November 2024
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 always refund! Though the reality is I'm saying this in hopes you simply forget to or can't be bothered :) As for updates, I have gotten some time to work on RICE again recently, so I'm working on adding new cards soon, stay tuned!
- V30: Cards, Qol and Changes! - 17 June 2024
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 use Arsenals. (Effectively only 3 weapon slots) New Card: Blood Boiler Dual Element Card, Depraved and Flame: Explosions on enemy death! New Card Line: Thorn and Leaf From Bronze to Gem, a Verdant series of medals that's defensive or offensive depending on if it's attached. MINT-CHO MINT-CHO Additions: Planetoid loot will now contain either a silver or gold (10% chance) medal. Projectiles that hit their intended target have their Crit Rolls' value doubled. (So 50%, 10% becomes 100%, 20%) The intended target for mouse aim is always the closest enemy. Reworks: Vine: Vine was extremely boring, unfun and probably weak, this will put it closer to being on the right track. Vine projectile visual…
- RICE is part of Freedom Games Publisher Sale! - 15 April 2024
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 page to pick up some awesome indie games at great prices. Whether you like to play alone or with friends, there are some great deals you won't want to miss out on! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2086140/RICE__Repetitive_Indie_Combat_Experience/
- RICE is temporarily more value for money! - 14 March 2024
We're once again participating in an annual event designed around fomo and manipulation in order to sell games at their actual price range! Buy RICE, have fun, and enjoy the placebo effects that come from buying a game with it's price tag slashed through, underlined by a lower number! RICE will be 20% less expensive during the Steam Spring sale, so buy now! The publisher has also recommended shilling the other games so check those out as well!
- V29: Christmas! - 20 December 2023
It's holiday time! Before we wrap up the year we're bringing you a tasty dish of RICE to go with your festive dishes! This patch reworks enemy spawns, blackhole, has a lot of changes, fixes and new content for you to feast on! If you were thinking about getting the game, now is a great time to do so as we are part of the Steam Winter Sale through our publisher Freedom Games! From December 21st until January 4th, the game will be on sale for 20% off! Make sure to check out Freedom Games' Winter Sale 2023 page to pick up some great games to play over the holiday season. Additions: Idle Screen: Allow projectiles to bounce off the side of the screen! (, Gem) Spores: Gain nutrients on killing enemies, when hurt, consume nutrients to heal! (Verdant, Bronze) Blizzard: Slow and Shift enemies around you! (Frost, Silver) Hail: Frozen enemies shatter when damaged, firing icicles! (Frost, Gold) New…
- V28: Antares Boss - 15 September 2023
Hey RICE fans! More update goodness coming your way today. In fact, we're now officially on update #28! Lots of updates and lots of yummy RICE content to enjoy. We'll share the notes on all the new content you'll find in this update in just a sec, but first we wanna give a heads-up to the RICE community: on October 2, the base price of the game will be increasing to $5 USD (or the Steam equivalent for your region)! As we were working on this update, we felt like now was the time to update the change in price. It's super-important to us that RICE provides not just loads of fun for players, but also loads of value for the price. After nearly thirty free updates, we felt it would be justifiable to bump the price as a reflection of the work we've put in these past few months and certainly hope you agree! But don't worry if you've been on the fence about snagging the game while it's still $3…
- V27: Misc QoL Update - 24 August 2023
Small patch for today as the next boss fight is still being worked on. Changes: Stars now have 5 Stability, which means they take at least 10 hits to kill. Rewrote flame particles to use the less laggy particle system. Sun's particle spam has been toned down. Projectiles now fully expand before dying, to make large projectile builds more fun. When you draw a full hand, the UI is more reasonable and easier to see and use. Lightning now affected by projectile transparency. Added Clear button for the metaboard loadouts. Added option to remove game pause on window unfocus. Added medal counters to metaboard. Can now scroll the metaboard result medal list. Dev Note: Small patch for now, I planned to get the new boss Antares out this patch but I feel short on time. This patch was also delayed for some other reasons hence why it's only coming out this week. I have already started on the next pa…
- Update v26! - 8 August 2023
Update v26! New Weapon: Lightning Staff - Highly Unpredictable. - Spams lightning. - Only deals lucky damage. Cards: - Suppression: +4 Damage against the abyss. (Bronze) - HPot: On Discard: Heal 1000HP, gain 1 Regen permanently. (Bronze) - MPot: On Discard: Reset All Cooldowns. Gain 1% attack speed. (Bronze) - Stacked: +2 Hand Size (Silver) Additions: - New Star battle against ‘Pulsar’. - Uninitialised Name now causes the secret stage to be more likely. - Snap now has an effect on the metaboard, allowing it to turn higher rarity cards into lower rarity. - You can now adjust the maximum amount of enemies the game can spawn. (100-500) Changes: - The amount of enemies that spawn at the start of the stage depend on how many meta medals a player has now. - Multi-Shot and Branching now have smaller sizes on the meta board. - Planet rewards will stop auto collecting once you have full active w…
- V25: End of Stage Boss - 24 July 2023
Additions: At the end of stage, you fight the sun before moving onto the next stage. Secret sun boss at the end of Dev Note: Finally back from holidays with a small patch, but one that adds a new system. I’ll hopefully be able to add more star types in the future which’ll give some variety to the end of stage experience rather than just sitting around waiting for the sun to die. Currently the sun doesn’t scale with anything, so it’ll likely be very easy for players using a full board of metaprogression. Of course, stars aren’t the only bosses that’ll be in the game, we already have some boss enemies spirited up waiting to be implemented
- v24 Changelog - 15 June 2023
Changelog: Meta-Medals can now be flipped in the board. You can now Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V on the meta screen to copy and paste builds. You can now have meta-loadouts. Added a new map, a Mushroom themed one! Can only appear in stage two or three. Medal board will no longer reset every version. Ice map can now appear in stage one. The maps that didn’t have ambience before now have ambience. ‘Trust Me’ is 10x more common and Dev Note: A very empty patch, mostly due to a lot of backend rewriting how medals are stored, but hopefully medals should be a lot easier to manage now! I really like the new map, it feels fun to try zip around on the brooks, trust me
- V23: Card balance and bug fixes - 2 June 2023
Changelog: Card drawing has been rewritten, leading to some minor differences in how it works. Drawing gold cards now draws at least +1 silver at minimum. Gem cards can now be drawn randomly at an extremely low chance. If you draw a gem card randomly, you draw 2 golds and 2 silvers at minimum. Special level like Gem, Arsenal and Gold do no longer delete eachother but rather delay eachother to the next level. Fixed arbitrary getting offered multiple Gem cards. Pot of meta-gold is now always in the same spot when choosing rewards. Metacurrency earning has been rewritten, you will recover metacurrency if you return to main menu or the game crashes/closes unexpectedly. You no longer lose all metacurrency on stage 2, but rather just lose any multipliers. If you die on stage 3 without taking damage, you don't lose skill check bonus metacurrency. CON has been changed to be a little less confus…
- V22: Content Patch - 26 May 2023
New Cards: Added Healing Pulse (bronze - gem): Heal 100/200/800/1600 HP every minute. Added Poison Pulse (silver): Deal 10% of healing pulse’s healing as poison to ALL enemies. Illness (silver-gem): Add 5/20/40% of damage as poison, stacking. Bloodlet (bronze): Rapidly take damage to reduce poison. Heavy Hits (bronze): -10% Projectile Speed, +10% Projectile Size. Persist (bronze): Projectiles decay 10% slower. Echo (gold): Weapon fires a second time. Poison Splash (silver): Hitting a poisoned enemy adds 10% of their poison to near enemies. Snap (silver): Hitting an enemy deals 10% of the damage to nearby enemies afterward. Very Original (gold): Hitting an enemy has a 8% chance to send out chain lightning. Changelog: Spread out graphics options into two sections. Enemies now have better frozen sprites. Menu now has different sprites depending on weapon picked. Reduced the damage of enemy…
- V21: QoL, bug fixes, new cards! - 11 May 2023
V21 Changelog: Certain medals can now be attached to weapons! This allows you to isolate certain effects on specific weapons if you wish. Homing, Multi-Shot and Branching now HAVE to be attached to weapons in order to work. Each weapon can hold infinite bronze/silver medals. However, They can only hold gold/gem medals equal to their tier (so the first upgraded sword can only hold 2 gem/gold cards) The Weapon UI was updated to support medals, also with some minor improvements to the weapon stats bar. The loud sounds were fixed, and there are now two contingencies to prevent it from happening again. There is now a silver card called "Inventory" that allows you to store extra weapons. You can now delete Weapons and Upgrades from your inventory by holding right click on them. Pot of Meta-Gold now gives 100 extra for every previous pot you've picked up. Weapon rewards from planets will now b…
- V20: FPS, QoL, Frostbite Improvements - 5 May 2023
Changelog: Hard at work on more fixes! Check them out! Rewrote the game’s rendering pipeline, so hopefully FPS should be improved. Planets are now affected by cold, so they can take Frostbite damage. Fixed Frostbite’s description, and buffed it’s damage x2. Fixed frostbite having the incorrect meta-size and added new meta-effects for it. Frostbite Slots: Fingerfood: Heal upon enemies taking frostbite damage. Frostbitter Gold Line: Enemies die if they have less HP than your frost. Ignite and Frostbite now proc every half a second, so they’re more effective. Fireball now converts pierce+bounce to size. Golden Bounce/Boing now gives 4 bounces so it’s inline with other golden cards. Summoners are now capped by how many enemies they can spawn. The final summon has been drastically buffed and will ruin your day if it manages to hit you. Contradictions Ascension now longer makes your explosion…
- Changelog v19: Fixing FPS/Memory Leaks - 3 May 2023
Once more I've returned with updates! Changelog for v19: Improved FPS, should hopefully lean a lot less on GPU Basic Elemental Cards now have a better description. Fixed some bugs and text with Halo Added More Options Ability to turn off coin/exp orbits Shaders being turned off affects some more things Can now turn off the slash animation 4K mode is turned off if your settings are loaded on a device with too small of a screen Weapon Crit descriptors are less confusing ("x2 crit chance" now instead of "200% crit chance") Projectiles from the Twins deal significantly less damage now The large black projectiles now pierce so it's easier to notice when you're hit by one If there is only 1 or 0 planets left, enemies can start spawning off screen, this way they won't clump around the sun Added 2 new cards: If I'm allowed to take off the mask and be serious for one moment-I would really apprec…
- Changelog for v18! - 2 May 2023
Changelog for v18: Yes yes, that's right. I provided a patch shortly after launch. You're all welcome. Honestly I can't remember some of the stuff I changed, but probably not too important. Memory Leaks fixed Options screen has been categorised to make space for new options Full Screen Option 4K Option, doubles the view of the game, a temporary fix Added Vertex Buffer Option (if you're getting blank screens on fullscreen this may help) Added options to configure bloom's quality/performance, with the ability to turn it off There's now an option to turn off some shader effects Added a fall back for alt+f4 to quit the game The time it takes to commit to ending a run is now twice as quick Grouped Slimes on higher personality ascension should no longer nuke you on death when they split Optimised bloom Enemies no longer shrink to the point of being invisible when inside blackholes Enemies wit…
- Early Access is here! - 1 May 2023
This is an announcement that the game has been released for Early Access. RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™ is here for Early Access on PC! (insert celebratory emoji here) Here is where we say nice things about our community and their support. This is a second sentence stating how much we love and appreciate our community. Do you feel appreciated here? Good. Because we appreciate you. As you get to playing, please consider leaving a review for the game on Steam. Getting your feedback is very important to us! If you find any bugs, please report them in our bug reporting system in our official Discord server. Well, I guess we’re done, so we’re signing off here. Until then, see ya!
- Early Access coming soon - 19 April 2023
This is an announcement of when the game will be released. RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™ will be launched for Early Access on May 1st, 2023 on PC! (insert celebratory emoji here) Here is where we're meant to thank the community for being great and tell them how we appreciate their support and couldn’t have done it without them. Do you feel appreciated here? Because we definitely appreciate you. We're obliged to invite you to join our Discord server. Why? To supposedly “connect with the community” and “receive sneak peeks”. Something like that. We’re done here, nothing more to say at the moment. Soon, you’ll all be able to give into your primal desire to end lives and watch numbers go up. Until then, see ya!
