An addicting lil game with a simple premise, you take turns with some guy shooting either other or yourselves with a shotgun. There's a bit more to it but that's the gist. It's also set up to look creepy and while I can't say I ever felt perturbed by the experience it does do a good job setting an atmosphere.
It starts you off in a rundown bathroom in a night club. The mirrors are so dirty you can't see into them and one has "AFRAID" scrawled across it in like a black spray paint or something. The world has this brown gradient look to it that really sells the idea of being in a seedy place. You kick the door open and find yourself on a walkway above what is clearly a night club. Music pulses and lights flash from below. A guy is peering over the railing on the path ahead of you. You walk past him, kick open another door and find yourself face to face with The Dealer. He's a grotesque floating head with holes for eyes and needles for teeth. He pulls himself forward from his end of the table that fills the room and has you sign a waiver. Then the game begins.
So the core gameplay, as I mentioned, is taking turns with a shotgun either using it on "the dealer" or yourself. How it works is each "round" the table gives X amount of live shots and "blanks" (blanks here being dummy rounds as actual blanks would have more of an effect than what's on screen). The dealer then loads them in a random order and then places the shotgun in front of you to start.
From here, you are then give two items from a pool. These can range from handcuffs you apply to your opponent to skip their turn, magnifying glasses you use to see what round is next, a saw to saw off the shotgun and do more damage for a turn, and a few others. So there is some strategy to it to be sure. The Dealer also genuinely seems to not know what order he loads the shotgun as well as I had several attempts in which he ended up shooting himself.
As you go through a run and take turns having goes at it your "chances" go down by one for every hit you take (or two for the sawed off) and there are defibrillators that "bring you back" somehow lol. When you get to the final round though and below a certain amount of "health" the circumstances change and you can no longer see how much health you have left or do anything to be revived and such. However, when you "die" in this game you come back to do it all again and you get to start from the round you died in. Generous little thing.
All in all it makes for an addicting lil risk/reward experience. It's probably as much fun to watch as it is to play so I'm guessing it's bigger for streamers than anything. After you beat the game you get a screen in the starting bathroom that shows your stats for runs and overall. You get items too that can affect the game but this is basically the core of the game.
It's enjoyable enough for the $3 it costs. I got a successful run after one death and all under like 30 minutes. Would love if they added like a multiplayer or something but I won't hold my breath. Definitely something I'll play around with when I have some time to kill now and then or if I wanna show friends something fun. Easy recommend too do to the low time and cost commitments. Simple and effective.
It starts you off in a rundown bathroom in a night club. The mirrors are so dirty you can't see into them and one has "AFRAID" scrawled across it in like a black spray paint or something. The world has this brown gradient look to it that really sells the idea of being in a seedy place. You kick the door open and find yourself on a walkway above what is clearly a night club. Music pulses and lights flash from below. A guy is peering over the railing on the path ahead of you. You walk past him, kick open another door and find yourself face to face with The Dealer. He's a grotesque floating head with holes for eyes and needles for teeth. He pulls himself forward from his end of the table that fills the room and has you sign a waiver. Then the game begins.
So the core gameplay, as I mentioned, is taking turns with a shotgun either using it on "the dealer" or yourself. How it works is each "round" the table gives X amount of live shots and "blanks" (blanks here being dummy rounds as actual blanks would have more of an effect than what's on screen). The dealer then loads them in a random order and then places the shotgun in front of you to start.
From here, you are then give two items from a pool. These can range from handcuffs you apply to your opponent to skip their turn, magnifying glasses you use to see what round is next, a saw to saw off the shotgun and do more damage for a turn, and a few others. So there is some strategy to it to be sure. The Dealer also genuinely seems to not know what order he loads the shotgun as well as I had several attempts in which he ended up shooting himself.
As you go through a run and take turns having goes at it your "chances" go down by one for every hit you take (or two for the sawed off) and there are defibrillators that "bring you back" somehow lol. When you get to the final round though and below a certain amount of "health" the circumstances change and you can no longer see how much health you have left or do anything to be revived and such. However, when you "die" in this game you come back to do it all again and you get to start from the round you died in. Generous little thing.
All in all it makes for an addicting lil risk/reward experience. It's probably as much fun to watch as it is to play so I'm guessing it's bigger for streamers than anything. After you beat the game you get a screen in the starting bathroom that shows your stats for runs and overall. You get items too that can affect the game but this is basically the core of the game.
It's enjoyable enough for the $3 it costs. I got a successful run after one death and all under like 30 minutes. Would love if they added like a multiplayer or something but I won't hold my breath. Definitely something I'll play around with when I have some time to kill now and then or if I wanna show friends something fun. Easy recommend too do to the low time and cost commitments. Simple and effective.