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High Rice

In this short incremental farming game, you will plant rice on a rooftop, create various goods out of it, automate using robot helpers and watch the citizens of the hidden cyberpunk city evolve as they patronize your products.

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Juan Paolo Escopete
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About the Game

Build the future of an alien civilization… one grain of rice at a time.

In this incremental farming and automation game, you manage the only rice farm in a city hidden beneath a permanent layer of clouds. Grow rice, process it into valuable products, and automate your entire operation with specialized helper robots as production scales to massive levels.

A Farm Above the City

Long ago, humanity survived a devastating invasion with the help of neighboring alien civilizations. After the war, many of those allies chose to stay—but their biology only allows them to survive within the planet’s thick cloud layer.

Beneath the clouds lies a sprawling cyberpunk city where aliens and the remaining humans live together. Most humans eventually migrated to a new continent after the war, leaving the cloud city largely to its alien residents.

But a controversial research paper proposes something incredible:

Aliens may be able to evolve to survive outside the clouds… if they consume human-grown food.

Your farm is the only place in the entire city where sunlight reaches the surface, making it the only location capable of growing crops.

Rice may be the key to changing the future of two civilizations.

Grow Rice. Build an Industry.

Start small with basic rice planting and harvesting. Expand your farm as production grows and demand rises.

  • Plant and harvest multiple varieties of rice

  • Sell raw rice or process it into different rice-based products

  • Scale production with automation systems and helper robots

  • Upgrade your robots to increase speed, efficiency, and output

  • Optimize your production pipeline to build a massive rice economy

Fully Automated Farming

Manual farming won’t be enough forever. As your farm grows, you'll unlock robotic helpers that can:

  • Automatically plant crops

  • Harvest rice at peak efficiency

  • Transport and sell products

  • Continuously expand your production network

Upgrade and specialize your robots to turn a small farm into a fully automated industrial rice empire.

Change the Future

Every shipment of rice feeds the city’s alien population and pushes scientific research forward. If the theory is correct, your farm could prove that aliens can evolve beyond the clouds and finally live on the open world below.

A simple crop might be the key to unlocking an entirely new future.

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