Buckshot Roulette
Games review
As of Jun 23, 2026, Buckshot Roulette is rated 95% positive on Steam (120,513 reviews), and 85/100 on Metacritic (12 critic reviews). Each source is shown in its own units, never blended into one score.
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Is Buckshot Roulette worth it in 2026?
A 95% positive rating from over 120,000 Steam reviews is not a fluke, Buckshot Roulette earns it by wrapping a tense, probability-driven duel in a psychologically charged atmosphere with a concept simple enough to explain in one sentence. Be clear-eyed about two real tensions, though: reviewers praise it as addictive and replayable, yet you will see everything the game has to offer within roughly an hour, and the 'strategy' is genuine but luck dependence means 50/50 outcomes will end runs no amount of careful shell-counting prevents. The multiplayer is the game's most damaged feature, crashes, a black screen bug that blocks sessions outright, and a cheating problem severe enough that one reviewer dropped their rating from 8/10 to 0/10, warning that hackers can force-crash your game entirely.
Players who want a cheap, atmospheric pick-up-and-play experience for solo tension or occasional sessions with a trusted group of friends, the low price makes the short runtime a reasonable trade, but only if you are not expecting lasting depth or a reliable online stranger-versus-stranger mode.
The cheating problem is the sharpest risk: online sessions with strangers may not be completable, and the situation appears to have worsened over time. Beyond that, the black screen bug has blocked multiple players from launching at all, and anyone buying this expecting a skill-dominant puzzle
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Pros
- tense strategic gameplay11
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- In this duel to the death, you have a massive advantage by always moving first. Yet it's still not easy to win more than 1 million consistently. Just imagine how you would do in...
- Fun game with a simple concept. You can play it strategically, count shells and probabilities, OR you can just not pay attention and simply shoot for a surprise effect, both for yo...
- How gambling addictions start. Buckshot Roulette is one of those games that somehow turns a few simple mechanics into an incredibly tense experience, borderline psychological war...
- strong atmosphere and style8
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- ---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☑ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It's jus...
- Love the art direction in this game, having to plan my odds and test my stakes. Good for few short sessions, including with friends, who just yap and continuously keep forgetting s...
- Really fun yet rage-inducing, which is what I expected from a game about gambling lives with shotgun shells. The gameplay is straightforward and style is iconic. 4/5
- fun with friends multiplayer7
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- Fun game with a simple concept. You can play it strategically, count shells and probabilities, OR you can just not pay attention and simply shoot for a surprise effect, both for yo...
- Love the art direction in this game, having to plan my odds and test my stakes. Good for few short sessions, including with friends, who just yap and continuously keep forgetting s...
- This game is definitely very affordable and a fun game to play once in a while, or once a month with your friends... especially a must buy if on sale
- addictive and replayable6
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- How gambling addictions start. Buckshot Roulette is one of those games that somehow turns a few simple mechanics into an incredibly tense experience, borderline psychological war...
- Weird and grimy but ultimately addicting. That one achievement was a ♥♥♥♥♥ to get though.
- Great for how cheap it is. Totally worth it. Pretty addicting as well
- simple accessible concept6
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- Fun game with a simple concept. You can play it strategically, count shells and probabilities, OR you can just not pay attention and simply shoot for a surprise effect, both for yo...
- [h3][b]One-line Review : Now, me and you, we are dancing on the edge of life and death.[/b][/h3] [b]Rating: ★★★★☆[/b] [b]Final Words[/b]: Reinterpreting Russian roulette in a fres...
- Buckshot Roulette is a brutally simple idea that somehow turns into one of the most tense and stylish horror-roulette experiences you can play. The concept is basically Russian rou...
- good value for price4
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- This game is definitely very affordable and a fun game to play once in a while, or once a month with your friends... especially a must buy if on sale
- This game is INSANELY good for it's pricing. There is a problem though that has been preventing me and most other players from playing. It's the "black screen" bug. Can you fix it...
- Great for how cheap it is. Totally worth it. Pretty addicting as well
Cons
- multiplayer crashes and bugs3
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- games pretty good thou multiplayer needs to be updated as it keeps crashing for certain people that i play with
- Game is plagued with hackers even if you host they still mod then it crashes you're game use to be a 8/10 game now its a 0/10 game too many cheats trying to act good sad this use t...
- I've always wanted to try this game and it's rated as "overwhelmingly positive" so I was shocked when I tried to play it and the servers were 150% dead. Instantly refunded.
- heavy luck dependence3
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- How gambling addictions start. Buckshot Roulette is one of those games that somehow turns a few simple mechanics into an incredibly tense experience, borderline psychological war...
- Very short game. You basically see the whole game within an hour. If you want to lose to 50/50's all the time go play this game. Or lose because the items you draw were all low tie...
- ♥♥♥♥♥♥ game not fun pure luck with no real gameplay whatsoever
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