
A twisted trial of pill roulette for up to 4 players (solo or online). Pick your poison. Use experimental items to shift the odds. And remember: only one of you can survive.
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Welcome to Side Effects: a tense, turn-based medical roulette game. Each round you'll be presented with a selection of pills. Some are helpful, some are harmful, and some mean instant death. You never know what you're about to consume or what it might do to your mind or body. Winning means outlasting – AKA, outliving – your opponent across the table.
Every pill impacts your resistance. Manage it wisely: zero resistance means death.
Between rounds, you can choose from a range of experimental items and treatments that can shift the odds in your favor, from vaccines to mouth clamps.
The other patient wants to outlast you. They’ll bluff, adapt, and use everything at their disposal to keep breathing one dose longer than you.
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A single player mode
A multiplayer mode (2-4 Players)
15+ unique items
6 pill types to test
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Languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese
Engagement
Hours played at review time, across 40 reviews with recorded playtime.
Reviews
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Reviews
I played a few hours expecting a great and fantastic game, but that greatness was only short lived. The game is the same loop over and over again after the first hour. It does not take long to unlock all of the different abilities and items. This game is basically a knockoff of Buckshot Roulette, only worse. Multiplayer lobbies practically don't exist. You will wait for one to show up longer than the round lasts. The only way you can get a lobby is if your friends also buy this game, but I wouldn't want them to waste money on this game. It also doesn't help that this game feels like a quick cash grab. The devs uploaded the game, took the money, and went completely silent. No updates, no patches, no communication, nothing for years. If you want a refund, you will know quickly, because the boredom kicks in fast. Skip it.
I became a druggie. Much recommended to get hooked with friends ---{ 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 just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☑ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☑ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☑ Floppy Disk ☐ Old Fashioned ☐ Workable ☐ Big ☐ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☑ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☑ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☑ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☑ Short ☐ Average ☐ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☑ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☑ Never heard of ☐ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☑ 7 ☐ 8 ☐ 9 ☐ 10
but u should buy it at a discount
Veryyyyyy enjoyable !!!!!! I had fun in single player but I thought I may get bored later. When I played with friends, WE HAD LOTS OF FUN AND SHARED LAUGHS !!! Really it became one of "Must play with friends starter pack" Please add more content, Keep it always fresh :)
Это игра похоже на бакшот рулет но и там есть другие штуки, впрочем это игра просто имба
Отличная игра там где ты играешь с ботом и ешь таблеточки мне нравится!
I guess i'll review this game. This game doesn't have much goin on for it. There's single player and multi player just seen someone hostin a lobby but i did'nt enter even though there was room for 1 more. There's no trophies to hunt (achievements) so there isn't a lot of replayability. From what people are saying the multi player is fun but idk cuz ive never tried it. This game had some potential to really be fun but from what others saying is that the devs abandoned it and movin on to a different game. The game is SO SO but ima give it a thumbs down just because of the fact they didnt add the easiest of things which is the trophies. If you're looking for the type of game that gambles the characters life and play with someone go play Bucksot Roulette i had fun playing that with my nephew and using the items that are given to you. You can strategize better in that game and also at least it has some kind conversations happening in game with the character you goin against in one player mode. it's not a long game but it's fun for the short amount it takes to beat it. It can turn long once you go into Double or Nothin mode.
i love forcing my friends to eat cyanide pills
I didnt play the Multiplayer yet but the single player is lot of fun. for the same price you could buy a bag of chips which doesent last that long.
some drugs yummy, so,e drugs bad, but all drugs make me feel funny
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