In Buckshot Roulette you must outsmart the AI in a dreaded game of Russian Roulette where the stakes are your life. If you’re looking to play the latest hit horror game on YouTube, here’s everything you need to know about Buckshot Roulette.
How to play Buckshot Roulette: Premise, goal, and gameplay
The goal of Buckshot Roulette is to beat the antagonist in an intense one-versus-one game of Russian Roulette with a pump-action shotgun. Bullets are placed into the chamber in a random sequence where you need to survive each round by choosing to aim the shotgun at the opponent or yourself.
The antagonist’s appearance resembles the iconic Imscared character but behaves incredibly differently to Imscared and its gameplay counterpart, INSCRIPTION. The AI in Buckshot Roulette is somewhat unpredictable in its decision-making as it’s often seen shooting itself when there are clearly no more blanks in the chamber.
Buckshot Roulette plays out in turns where you have a limited amount of lives and a total of three rounds to play. The stakes of each round get higher as winning each round gets increasingly more difficult. The tabletop is designed to give the player and opponent items to change the pace of the game by skipping turns and bullets, checking for a blank or live bullet in the chamber, regaining a life, and so on. Buckshot Roulette is a solo experience where you need to outsmart the AI.
How to download Buckshot Roulette
Initially released on itch.io, Buckshot Roulette has since made its swap onto Steam for its full release on April 4. You can get Buckshot Roulette on Steam for $2.69. Buckshot Roulette is only accessible on Windows and Linux. Developer Mike Klubnika makes it clear that Buckshot Roulette will not work on MacOS. Buckshot Roulette also requires Vulkan support to run.
There is so much great horror content readily available inside Steam and Itch.io if you are looking for something to play outside of the daily scrap run grind of Lethal Company. With its grungy style, reminiscent of INSCRYPTION, Buckshot Roulette uses a tabletop design to terrify its participants further with strategic thinking rather than putting it all on luck.
