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Stip on Steam Assign, undo, deduce! Solve a series of minimalist number puzzles. Use constraints to assign numbers to the correct stips. Navigate the interconnected puzzles to uncover secrets. Please ignore any odd...

The Steam page for our new puzzle game, Stip, is live! Input numbers, undo, deduce, and try again. Please don't touch anything else. Everything is fine.

⭐Wishlisting helps us tremendously! Check it out here store.steampowered.com/app/3227960/...

Happy New Year, everyone! 🏵🏵

It's been a rough year for some and rougher for others, but we made it through. Now it's time for another one. ✌️ See you on the other side~

I'm really happy for you. 💛 Wishing you all the best in the coming year, and I'm so glad that you are still able to keep doing what you love! It's really been a joy to have come across you.

True, true, no jinx. 🤞

🎉🎉 Then I look forward to it if you are! Inb4 explosion of popularity because you're the only one streaming it. 😂

You've made me excited for it, too. 😂 Will you be streaming the game when you get it? (I'm not sure what your policy is for a newly released game, sorry!)

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"Who said becoming Empress isn't like walking on a tightrope? But a queen still wants a devoted lover, dammit."

🎮: Imperial Grace Demo by @synstoria.bsky.social
🕗: 8pm, GMT+8
🗓: 11 Dec, Thu

🥂: twitch.tv/ricebits

#ImperialGrace #VisualNovels #Amare #IndieGames #ChooseWiselyFestival

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"Ahhh, yes, just what the doctor ordered—a gaggle of awful writers to whip into shape. My life as a chief editor is blessed~"

🎮: Good News by @poroos.bsky.social
🕗: 10:45pm, GMT+8
🗓: 10 Dec, Wed

🥂: twitch.tv/ricebits

#GoodNews #IndieGames #ChooseWiselyFestival

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"When's our next murder-mystery escape room, darling?"
"Funny you should ask~~ :>"

🎮: Unmasked Truths: Shattered Dreams by @unmaskedtruths.bsky.social
🕗: 10pm, GMT+8
🗓: 10 Dec, Wed

🥂: twitch.tv/ricebits

#UnmaskedTruths #VisualNovels #IndieGames #ChooseWiselyFestival

Guess what we'll be doing on 10 Dec, 8PM GMT+8? :>

It's time for Wholesome Snack 2025 by @wholesomegames.com, during which there will be pausing, there will be squeeing, there will be wishlisting, all while we play i-spy! 👀

🍵: twitch.tv/ricebits

Definitely, can't wait for another shot of wholesome goodness!

Hiya, come drop by if you like cosy vibes as we explore story games and cute concepts, with occasional derailments (cough) as we check out the next new shiny~ 🐞

🍵: twitch.tv/ricebits

That was such a treat - seeing how #Livber has been refined from demo to full game. :>

The atmosphere was so on point the whole game: an utterly lovely and creepy time, with the slight moving backgrounds adding so much to feeling discombobulated & displaced.

(no screenshots because maybe spoilers)

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"Would you like your bizarro served now or later, miss? It does have ice-cream on the side, it might melt."

🎮: Butter Side Down by Kalle & Lachlan MacDonald
🕗: 10pm, GMT+8
🗓: 9 Dec, Tues

🥂: twitch.tv/ricebits

#ButterSideDown #InteractiveFiction #IndieGames #ChooseWiselyFestival

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"You ain't seen pretty like I've seen pretty."
You draw from BLAME!? You have me. Check out their pedigree, yo.

🎮: Celestial Return (Demo) by @metaphor-games.bsky.social
🕗: 8pm, GMT+8
🗓: 9 Dec, Tues

🥂: twitch.tv/ricebits

#CelestialReturn #IndieGames #ChooseWiselyFestival

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"One short psychological thriller coming right up, miss, with a sprinkle of 'where's my waifu' as requested."

🎮: Livber: Smoke and Mirrors by InEv Games
🕗: 8pm, GMT+8
🗓: 8 Dec, Monday

🥂: twitch.tv/ricebits

#Livber #VisualNovels #IndieGames #ChooseWiselyFestival

Tada~~ holiday time! \o/ So guess what?

Ricebits is honoured to be a part of the #ChooseWiselyFestival made possible by @studioephua.bsky.social~ Come join her for a week full of glorious games made by incredible indie developers!

(definitely not rice just messing around again. promise. :>)

107 saves later, I have finished Mass Effect 1 (Legendary Edition)! Only took me 4 years, gg. But it was such a lovely trip down memory lane. Pretty much completed everything except for a couple of minerals that were not found.

Next stop! ME2~

Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays:

Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.

If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.

Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.

Wednesdays is ✨ free ✨ for World Children's Day in order to raise awareness about child sexual abuse.

Grab it on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2747770/...
or Itch: artefrance.itch.io/wednesdays
before November 21th 9PM CET!

Finally able to turn off Low Battery Survival Mode and slowly catch up with everything; work and family matters totally have me beat.

If I haven't responded to an email or DM, please send me another poke so that it gets brought to the top of my Inbox as I chip away at the backlog! 🛻💨

💛!

#Rectifier : In Bloom is available on Itch for only $2!
Also make sure to wishlist the game so you can get the game there when it's available.
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Happy Halloween!~ Nothing like stepping into some 1897 mysteries set in Ireland on this fine night.

🎮: The Séance of Blake Manor by @spookydoorway.bsky.social & @blakemanorgame.bsky.social
🕗: 8pm, GMT+8
🗓: 31 Oct, Friday

🎃: twitch.tv/ricebits

#RicePlays

Played ME1 before sleep to clear out all the side-quests before Virmire, iykyk. And I think it's been one of the best sleeps that I've had in months, maybe the whole year? Damn.

Ty! Yes, I'm really happy for that. <3

It's so frustrating - it's Steam Next Fest, but I'm too sick to enjoy it and check out games & demos. :\ Y'all better doing it on my behalf, yo.

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Totally not AWOL this weekend because I was kidnapped by a hottie spy or two. 😳🫣

🎮: Love & Country by @guhuhugames.com
🕗: 9pm, GMT+8
🗓: 11 Oct, Saturday

🔎: twitch.tv/ricebits

#LoveAndCountry #VisualNovels #Otome #IndieGames #RicePlays

This is such a throwback. One day I'll find my hat again. I promise it wasn't because it shrunk in the wash. >.<

In honour of World Mental Health Day, we played a cosy little game that was a lovely way to end off the evening and begin the weekend. Totally worth the current coffee price. 🫶 to everyone!

🎮: Hello Goodboy by @rollinggloryjam.bsky.social

#WorldMentalHealthDay #HelloGoodboy #RicePlays

Finishing #PreOdyssey yesterday was such a wholesome treat, my heart still feels warm from the experience. I love how Penelope's ducks were such staunch and dedicated shippers of the two, nnngh. Even without a sale, this little VN has my solid recommendation. 🫶🫶

Your work ethic is on another level. xD I don't know how you also manage to market on top of all of this creation. 🫡

But it was a fun read, & even though some of them might be in the pipeworks for a while, there's so much to look forward to~

(Don't feel bad about spending time on self-indulgence!)