Buckshot Roulette is a borderline-horror experimental gambling game based on Russian Roulette. You kick the door of a hidden playroom above a seedy nightclub to face a nightmarish Dealer. Win and you get a payday, lose and you die.

What seems extremely luck-based and simple at first gets deeper with additional rules and items. My personal bit of advice is to use gaming stones to keep track of the shells. There's still some luck involved, but nowhere near as much as it initially appears.

• Unique atmosphere
  
• Surprisingly deep mechanics
  
• Tense gameplay
  
• Dirt cheap price for the amount of content, especially if multiplayer gets added later as promised

• Haunting earworm-prone music, YMMV
  
• Intentionally bad-looking graphics, check the screenshots
  
• Frustrating time-based scoring system makes the relatively slow animations more jarring, hope it gets changed
  
• Whims of the RNG may kill you, even with the best strategy
  
• Dealer acts logically most of the time but will occasionally shoot itself with a live shell for no apparent reason, leaving you dumbfounded

I stumbled upon this game on YouTube and it looked weird enough that I had to try it. Bought it on itch.io and loved it. When I saw it released on Steam, I bought it again in a heartbeat and was pleasantly surprised with the extra content.

This video game experience is nowhere near universally recommendable, however. If you can't gamble a couple of bucks on a game you might hate, I suggest you watch a gameplay video first... it will ruin part of the surprise, sure, but you should get a sense of whether you'll love or hate Buckshot Roulette.

Sign the waiver.

[h1]Description[/h1] [b]Buckshot Roulette[/b] is a borderline-horror experimental gambling game based on Russian Roulette. You kick the door of a hidden playroom above a seedy nightclub to face a nightmarish Dealer. Win and you get a payday, lose and you die. What seems extremely luck-based and simple at first gets deeper with additional rules and items. My personal bit of advice is to use gaming stones to keep track of the shells. There's still some luck involved, but nowhere near as much as it initially appears. [h1]Pros[/h1] [list] [*] Unique atmosphere [*] Surprisingly deep mechanics [*] Tense gameplay [*] Dirt cheap price for the amount of content, especially if multiplayer gets added later as promised [/list] [h1]Cons[/h1] [list] [*] Haunting earworm-prone music, YMMV [*] Intentionally bad-looking graphics, check the screenshots [*] Frustrating time-based scoring system makes the relatively slow animations more jarring, hope it gets changed [*] Whims of the RNG may kill you, even with the best strategy [*] Dealer acts logically most of the time but will occasionally shoot itself with a live shell for no apparent reason, leaving you dumbfounded [/list] [h1]Verdict[/h1] I stumbled upon this game on YouTube and it looked weird enough that I had to try it. Bought it on itch.io and loved it. When I saw it released on Steam, I bought it again in a heartbeat and was pleasantly surprised with the extra content. This video game experience is nowhere near universally recommendable, however. If you can't gamble a couple of bucks on a game you might hate, I suggest you watch a gameplay video first... it will ruin part of the surprise, sure, but you should get a sense of whether you'll love or hate [b]Buckshot Roulette[/b]. [i]Sign the waiver.[/i]