Side Effects

Play pill roulette. Two Test subjects participate only one survives

Take your pills. Use your items. Watch your tolerance. Can you survive this medical trial?

The game looks and plays better in the downloaded version

Inspired by Buckshot Roulette 

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Disclaimer 

This is a prototype build. There is probably bugs, there are missing sounds and the enemy AI might not be working as intended. We made this in 10 days and might work on this more

Published 14 days ago
StatusPrototype
PlatformsHTML5, Windows
Rating
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(147 total ratings)
Authorshi rohun, Mr.Pootsley, Jaybooty
GenreStrategy
Made withUnity
TagsCreepy, Dark, Horror

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This game is literally so amazing!! Love it <3

Me and bro eating my grandma's dementia meds

NICE GAME BRO

its FUN to play! just like buckshot roulette 

A good school bathroom simulator

i recommend it!

Estoy deseando que haya mas niveles y opciones, al principio me parecía difícil pero me acabo gustando

As a fan of Buckshot Roulette i can't wait to see more out of this game, great concept

Bug: When the other subject has one life left and destroys the last good pill while the player knows both two pills left cause death they kinda just.. sit there-

Great game, i hope itll be longer in the future. Everything looks well done, and plays smooth. I look forward to playing this again.

Great game, just wish the AI was slightly more smarter.

played this with another game and it was so fun and tense! The character is really unnerving, the way their eyes roll creeped me out! I would love to play a longer version of this if that was ever something that would happen! Also, picking the wrong pill made me so mad haha 

Great game! Adding more visual/audio/music effect after taking different pills would be amazing

Honestly was a lot of fun in my short time playing, wish I picked up on the tolerance mechanic earlier but I will definitely be keeping up on the progress of this game, very intrigued for what the future has in store 

I think there's potential for Side Effects to present a fresh take on Buckshot Roulette type games but two things come to mind that I wish I saw:

1) Taking certain pills having some visual/auditory/gameplay effects

2) Balance changes. For instance in Buckshot Roulette, a new round of shots are made when there's only one guaranteed outcome (e.g. only live rounds in the gun). When there are multiple poison pills in play, I feel cheated by the game when I successfully avoided poison but now both of us got to take it

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Randomly hit a softlock at some point, dunno what triggered the AI to just never take a turn, maybe it got confused with something or maybe some weird animation timings with prior actions are locking up the AI behavior. Dunno but I guess that means I’ve reached the better ending, we’ve both agreed to peacefully stop the experiment at the detriment of our employers.

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Some other things to note:

BUGS

  • When duplicating an item, said item will retain the increased size from hovering over the item until hovered again.
  • AI locking up (suspicions are that if the AI duplicates any item that has been previously replicated, it locks up)
  • Pills can fall outside of the table! This makes it impossible the player to select in any capacity, thankfully, the AI is not bound by those rules so such a situation does not result in a softlock.

IMPROVEMENTS (I would like to see happen)

  • Duplicators can duplicate duplicators, this serves no purpose and doesn’t make much sense.
  • Players can get the same item 4 times in the item pick between rounds, I feel like the rng should be tweaked to not entirely be true random since that does create some… awkward situations.
  • Pill descriptions show the safety of the pill (if tested) or the odds listed on the original bottle of the pills, not the current odds, I’d prefer it to describe the current odds (not taking into consideration any tested pills, since safe pills make no distinction between placebo and healing pills).
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Might I make a small reccomendation; Have Pill combo's thrown into the mix cause different effect's As the rounds climb, I've noticed more and more pills are added to the mix to pick between.

Why not have the medicine act differently depending on the pill? Such as one Red + One Blue come supresses 1 death or causes the Green Pill to cause death after taking it; basically having medicine have a good reaction or bad reaction with each other.

Would very much like to see this be a mechanic of the game!

A must play for anyone who is into Buckshot Roulette or that similar style of gameplay, it has it's own unique style and gameplay that evolves how one would play and makes you strategize on what to use and how to use it and with only being a prototype I feel this game is heading in good directions!

I LOVED THIS GAME!! I loved the concept, the whole idea! Can't wait for more!!

loved this game !!!

😊👍

very cool game, liked the idea of it and cant wait to see more!!

Pretty Cool game, Would like some jump scares.

VERY COO;L HGAME\\

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FIRE! Please continue development

Really fun game, would love some extra Feature

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Cool game but it depends too much on luck, at this level its just gambling with extra steps

I'm sure it will be more strategy based in the future, but for now I agree

That's the whole point of these type of games

sick short game .. 2nd in video! drop a like if u laugh!

Gameplay en español
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This is only a prototype as well??? I thought it was a fully developped game xd

love this game <3

good game

I had so much fun playing this! Please continue development. Awesome concept!

we have one problem , one blue pil get block outside the screen like invisible wall

I literally love this game, It's so fun ! Whoeevr made this is a genius. <3

🚀 Complete Gameplay🎉

Its like buckshot roulette but drugs, its an interesting game tbh, hope to see more updates in the future!

I love The art style and Game mechanic, very cool.

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