Factsheet

Developer & Publisher: Rike Games; Official Website
Platform: Steam
Free demo: itch.io Play in Browser
Release Date: Steam - July 29, 2026
Price: ~US$6.99 (regional); Launch week -30%
Genre: Action · Casual · Indie · Simulation · Strategy
Languages: 12 languages supported

Chinese (Simplified) · English · French · German · Italian · Japanese · Korean · Portuguese (Brazil) · Portuguese (Portugal) · Russian · Spanish (LATAM) · Spanish (Spain)
Contact: [email protected]

Pitch

You're broke, smash piggy banks, bills must be paid. A short, satisfying game. Get money, upgrade, and get debt free!

Description

Bills Must Be Paid is a satisfying game where you have to smash piggy banks to pay off your bills.

Smash Piggy Banks

Smashing costs stamina. When your hand is getting tired the run is over.

Pay your bills

Bills show up. If you ignore them, the collector starts taking a cut of everything you earn. Pay them off to unlock perks that help you pay back your bills even faster.

Random loot

Piggies spawn random loot.

You never know which one is holding the most, or do you?

Upgrades

A skill tree with multiple paths. Improve your grip strength, get addicted to caffeine, hit the gym, pump up your wrist, get more lucky, unlock abilities like rock rain, electrify your hammer, and more.

New piggy types

New types to discover. Some run away, some are too lazy to move, and others carry all the black money you never had :P…

Different Hammers

Unlock different types of hammers. Some have higher crit chance and smaller radius, while others are super fast with big radius and less damage. Choose the one that best fits your playstyle.

Collect rare coins

Wishlist on Steam

About Rike Games

Rike Games is an independent studio based in Frankfurt, Germany. Since 2019, the studio has shipped mobile and web games, reaching 500,000+ mobile downloads across iOS and Android and over 20 million plays on the web.
No Pain No Gain, the studio's ragdoll sandbox game, became the bridge to Steam: a port that taught the team the platform.
Bills Must Be Paid is the studio's first premium Steam release.

Founders

Rike Games was founded by Roxanne Góngora Alfonso and Mike Niclas Gschwilm, better known as Roxy and Mike, a Cuban-German married couple.

They met in Cuba in 2016, married in 2017, and began their game development journey together in 2019. It became their life's passion: Roxy focuses on art; Mike focuses on code and the technical side; both work closely together across every part of development.