Games like RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™
If RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™ is your kind of game, the closest matches are Rogue: Genesia, Sharded World and Pathfinder: Gallowspire Survivors — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its builds feel uniquely powerful, explosions are satisfyingly chaotic and meta progression is addictive. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
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Rogue: Genesia
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Shares meta progression and a challenging mood with RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™.
Top pick for RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Casual with RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™.
Walk upon a new world and slay foes endangering it. Rogue : Genesia is an action rogue-lite game, where you fight relentless hordes consisting of hundreds and thousands of monsters, make your build, break the balance, defeat bosses and save one of the many worlds.
Sharded World
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Shares a challenging mood with RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™.
Second-strongest match for RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™.
Sharded World is a reversed bullet hell, rogue-lite, ARPG game combining simple gameplay and great rpg progression. Each level has its own unique features and challenges. Upgradable characters, weapons and orbs. Challenges, daily quests, and leaderboards. Fight, get stronger and defeat the Lich!
Pathfinder: Gallowspire Survivors
WHY THIS
Shares meta progression and a challenging mood with RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™.
Third-strongest match for RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™.
A roguelite survivor game set in the beloved world of Pathfinder. Enter Gallowspire, Pathfinder’s legendary tower of darkness, alongside your fearless companion. Slay hordes of enemies, upgrade your arsenal, and overcome deadly bosses to seal away the ancient king of undeath Tar-Baphon!
GunSuit Guardians
WHY THIS
Shares meta progression and a challenging mood with RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™.
Ranked #4 for RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™.
Gear up your GunSuit and defend Earth from an alien siege! Equip and upgrade unique arsenals of overpowered weapons to survive overwhelming numbers in this action-roguelite twin-stick horde survival.
Spellbook Demonslayers
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Shares meta progression and a challenging mood with RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™.
Ranked #5 for RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™.
Slay endless hordes of demons to protect the Cosmic Library! Steal their abilities, find powerful equipment, and unlock the secrets of each spellbook to become unstoppable! Will you be able to destroy the demonic legion?
Neophyte
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Shares a challenging mood with RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™.
Ranked #6 for RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™.
A mini topdown action roguelike with chaotic spell-slinging hack-n-slash combat. Collect spells, choose perks and discover powerful synergies to become an unstoppable monster-slaying wizard.
Pixel Survivors : Roguelike
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™.
A rogue-lite game where you must face hundreds of monsters with increasingly difficult bosses that strong enough to take you down. Choose your abilities, build your favorite combat style, become stronger and survive as long as you can!
Death Must Die
WHY THIS
Shares meta progression and a punishing mood with RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™.
Ranked #8 for RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™.
Descend the nether in search of Death himself! Choose from God-given powers to slay his hordes of minions. Unlock new heroes, collect powerful items and create game-breaking synergies in this roguelite hack and slash survivors game.
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Vampire Survivors
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Shares a challenging mood with RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™.
Reviewers of RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™ cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Risk of Rain 2
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Shares a challenging mood with RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™.
Reviewers of RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™ cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™.
Escape a chaotic alien planet by fighting through hordes of frenzied monsters – with your friends, or on your own. Combine loot in surprising ways and master each character until you become the havoc you feared upon your first crash landing.
Mega Man X Legacy Collection
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Shares a challenging mood with RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™.
Reviewers of RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™ cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™.
Mega Man X Legacy Collection includes the legendary 16-bit titles and the series’ exciting foray into the 32-bit era: Mega Man X, Mega Man X2, Mega Man X3, and Mega Man X4. Test your skills in the new X Challenge mode, which pits players against two deadly bosses at once.
Noita
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Shares a challenging mood with RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™.
Reviewers of RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™ cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™ at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~80% under RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™ on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
The Test
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Priced ~60% under RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™ on Steam right now. Shares Indie with RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~70% under RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™ on Steam right now. Shares Indie with RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~80% under RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™ on Steam right now. Shares Action and Casual with RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
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Priced ~60% under RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™ on Steam right now. Shares Casual with RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
Peggle Deluxe
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Priced ~80% under RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™ on Steam right now. Shares Casual with RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™ on Steam right now. Shares Action with RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™.
You are the leader of an elite squad of Republic Commandos, your mission is to infiltrate, dominate, and ultimately, annihilate the enemy. Your squad will follow your orders and your lead, working together as a team - instinctively, intelligently, instantly. You are their leader. They are your weapon.
shapez
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Priced ~80% under RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™ on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
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STRAFTAT
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Coloring Pixels
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
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Dredgers
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™.
Another title from Pirate-Rob, the studio behind RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™. Shares Indie with RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™.
Based on traditional rogue-likes, Dredgers is a real-time dungeon crawler where you can play as 30 different races, each having their own stats and skills. With the unique class system you can mix and match classes as you desire, anything from an Archer-Knight to a Berserker-Summoner-Priest is possible!
Roses and Gems
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Another title from Pirate-Rob, the studio behind RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™. Shares Action and Indie with RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™.
Roses and Gems is a difficult sandbox platformer all about avoiding the inevitable, Death. Build constructs, traps and fight to keep the ancient machine safe. In the end, your home will be destroyed, and you'll die, but it just means you get to start a new dem... Adventure all over again!
Dry Sand Damp Steps
WHY THIS
Another title from Pirate-Rob, the studio behind RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™. Shares Indie and Casual with RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™.
A short story about a water spirit wandering the wastes of a dry world. As you travel, you'll interact with the inhabitants, accumulate and manage your water, collect trinkets, avoid danger and push forwards into the uncertain future.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Pathfinder: Gallowspire Survivors
WHY THIS
Shares meta progression and a challenging mood with RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™.
A roguelite survivor game set in the beloved world of Pathfinder. Enter Gallowspire, Pathfinder’s legendary tower of darkness, alongside your fearless companion. Slay hordes of enemies, upgrade your arsenal, and overcome deadly bosses to seal away the ancient king of undeath Tar-Baphon!
GunSuit Guardians
WHY THIS
Shares meta progression and a challenging mood with RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™.
Gear up your GunSuit and defend Earth from an alien siege! Equip and upgrade unique arsenals of overpowered weapons to survive overwhelming numbers in this action-roguelite twin-stick horde survival.
Neophyte
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™.
A mini topdown action roguelike with chaotic spell-slinging hack-n-slash combat. Collect spells, choose perks and discover powerful synergies to become an unstoppable monster-slaying wizard.
Frequently asked about RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™
- Does RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™ run on Steam Deck?
- RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™ is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™ cost?
- RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™ is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™ are Rogue: Genesia, Sharded World, Pathfinder: Gallowspire Survivors.
- Who developed RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™?
- RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™ was developed by Pirate-Rob and published by indie.io.
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