Buckshot Roulette Review (Bowser)
Buckshot Roulette is a highly stylised little experience. It likely won't occupy much of your time, but its singleplayer mode has atmosphere in spades, putting you in the dirty bathroom above a nightclub booming with music. You break through the doors to a little side space, a place that looks like you've made a wrong turn and just can't back out of. But you came here willingly.
A monster, blackened eyes and a great deal of teeth filling his misshapen mouth, has you sign a waiver, forfeiting your life if you lose the game. You're just here to win some cash.
The rules are simple. Random numbers of blanks and live rounds are fed into the shotgun in an equally random order. The dealer hands the gun to you, your turn. You gamble your life away, and win the first round.
Then more complexities are added. Items you can use to pierce the little mystery for just a moment. See what's currently in the chamber, take two turns in a row, double the damage. You only get a few of these per round, so make them count, take your chances when they come.
Of course, you can choose to shoot yourself. If it's blank, you get another turn. You just have to look down the barrel and pull the trigger.
This little back and forth goes on until you either lose and get yourself back together in that same bathroom, or win the cash and go home with a little victory music to go with it. That's it.
But now there's multiplayer! My friends and I hop on this sometimes if we need something settled that is simple to understand, has a bit of a skill ceiling to work upwards through, and that one person doesn't obviously trounce the other in. Currently, using this as a way for my DnD players to gamble their gold pieces away. It supports up to 4 players and is quite the cheap game. Pick it up, it deserves every cent and every bit of praise.