Slice & Dice

Slice & Dice Rice, developed by Dojo Games and released April 27, 2017, is a one-hit-kill fighting game set in a stylized Japanese underworld where landing a single clean blow ends the round and receiving one ends you.

Health bars are absent entirely. Instead, wounds accumulate as movement penalties — a cut to the leg slows you, an arm wound affects your striking — so every exchange carries real stakes before the finishing hit arrives. The underlying system is built around feints, parries, dodges, and attack clashes, generating a read-heavy, mind-game-oriented match structure that Dojo Games drew from the one-hit philosophy of Bushido Blade. Because inputs are kept intentionally simple and no move-list memorization is required, newcomers can reach the meaningful decision-making quickly, but the punishing instant-kill format means a single lapse in judgment ends the round immediately, making this demanding rather than forgiving.

The roster holds eight characters, each with a distinct fighting style and backstory. Variety runs from a bare-handed monk relying on speed and positioning to a large-frame swordswoman whose attacks sacrifice mobility for sustaining pressure through the wind-up. Six hand-drawn stages present an alternate version of a Japanese supernatural setting.