Buckshot Roulette
Intense overall intensityWhat's in it
Cigarettes are smoked and beer is drunk as consumable items for gameplay effects, and a bottle of pills is swallowed to unlock an extended mode.
A core recurring action is turning the shotgun on the player's own head and pulling the trigger during the game of Russian roulette.
A pump shotgun is fired at the Dealer or the player at point-blank range, with a blood spray and the body slumping; no dismemberment or lingering gore.
The entire premise is a lethal game of chance in a grim nightclub setting where death by gunfire is the constant stake and outcome.
Tabletop-horror framing with an ominous silent Dealer, grim lighting, and mounting dread designed to unsettle rather than startle.
The core loop is Russian-roulette wagering, and a 'Double or Nothing' mode pays escalating in-game cash winnings that cannot be cashed out.
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What it is
Buckshot Roulette is a minimalist first-person horror game built around a modified game of Russian roulette played with a pump-action shotgun. Across three rounds you sit across from a silent, menacing figure called the Dealer, and each turn you choose to fire the loaded shotgun at the Dealer or at your own head — a live shell costs a life while a blank lets you keep your turn. Lives are tracked as defibrillator charges, and from the second round both sides draw consumable items (a cigarette that restores a charge, a beer that ejects the chambered shell, a magnifying glass, pills, and more) that add layers of strategy. An endless 'Double or Nothing' mode wagers escalating in-game cash, and a multiplayer mode lets up to four people play the same deadly game against each other. Shots produce a blunt blood spatter in a low-poly style; the game contains no sexual content, nudity, or scripted profanity.
How it's framed
The game frames its violence as a bleak, ritualized standoff rather than glorified action, with every trigger pull presented as a coin-flip between life and death. Self-directed shots are a mechanical part of the roulette rules rather than depicted as despair, and death is repeatedly undone by defibrillator charges, keeping the tone tense and gamey rather than realistic. The only reward is money won in the wagering mode, tying the dread directly to gambling stakes.
Details
- Developer
- Mike Klubnika
- Publisher
- CRITICAL REFLEX
- Released
- Apr 4, 2024
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