Single-player games like RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™, ranked by player overlap. Every pick carries Steam's Single-player category, so multiplayer-only titles or always-online games don't sneak in. imho.run pulls the category data from Steam directly — Single-player here matches what the store labels.
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Ranked picks
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Rogue: Genesia
Single-player alternative to RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Sharded World
Single-player alternative to RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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!
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Pathfinder: Gallowspire Survivors
Single-player alternative to RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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!
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GunSuit Guardians
Single-player alternative to RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Spellbook Demonslayers
Single-player alternative to RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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?
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Neophyte
Single-player alternative to RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Pixel Survivors : Roguelike
Single-player alternative to RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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!
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Death Must Die
Single-player alternative to RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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
Single-player alternative to RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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!
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Risk of Rain 2
Single-player alternative to RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Mega Man X Legacy Collection
Single-player alternative to RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Noita
Single-player alternative to RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Dredgers
Single-player alternative to RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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!
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Roses and Gems
Single-player alternative to RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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!
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Dry Sand Damp Steps
Single-player alternative to RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.