Deadly Game: It is russian roulette after all, but it is possible that your character could simply decide to leave upon being resuscitated after losing the first to rounds.Colour-Coded for Your Convenience: Live rounds are red, while blanks are blue-grey.You can still smoke if your defibrillator is cut off in the final round, though it no longer serves a practical purpose. You can use it to 'take the edge off' and regain one health point. Cigarette of Anxiety: One of the items from the second round onwards is a pack of cigarettes.The exact amount you get varies depending on how you play, but it's usually around 60.000 dollars. Briefcase Full of Money: Your reward for winning the final round.

Booze-Based Buff: Using a beer can from the second round onward allows you to rack the shotgun without firing it, regardless of whether there is a live shell or a dummy shell loaded in the chamber.

The music sounds slightly melancholic, as if the character is reflecting on whether it was worth it or not. If you win the game and get the tens of thousands of dollars, the player drives off into the night with the money and the shotgun. No defibrillator or blood transfusion could save you from that.

Artistic License – Biology: Obviously, being shot in the face with a shotgun at point-blank (or two meter) range would result in your head splitting into pieces.

Not only should it know whether the last shell is live or blank by process of elimination, but it becomes the player's turn when the shotgun is reloaded anyway.

Artificial Stupidity: That being said, the dealer is also sometimes prone to shooting itself with the last shell in the shotgun, even though it has no reason not to aim at you instead.

It can and will combo them together to ruin you if you let it.

Artificial Brilliance: The dealer can be very apt with using its items to its advantage.

All it wants is to play a fair game with you that just so happens to be deadly.

Affably Evil: The demonic entity playing against you is nothing but polite, even as you repeatedly shoot it in the face.

Things get more interesting in the second round, as the dealer will add items to the game that you can use to give yourself an edge over your opponent, who will do the same to you. The twist? Instead of a revolver, you play with a shotgun and take turns either shooting yourselves or each other to win. The concept for the game is fairly simple: You are a Faceless Protagonist who enters a dirty, but active underground night club to play a game of Russian Roulette with a crooked dealer who just so happens to be a demonic entity.

''Buckshot Roulette' is a short, self-described tabletop horror game developed by Mike Klubnika and uploaded to itch.io on December 29th, 2023.

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