SIDE EFFECTS
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Side Effects
Take your pills. Utilize items in your favor. Watch your resistance. Survive.
Welcome to Side Effects: a tense, turn-based pill roulette game. Each round, you'll be presented with a selection of pills to take. Some are helpful, some are harmful, and some are death. You never know what you're about to consume or what it might do to your mind or body.
Resist
Every pill impacts your resistance. Manage it wisely: zero resistance means death.
Experimental goodies
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.
You’re not alone
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.
The game looks and plays better in the downloaded version
Inspired by Buckshot Roulette
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Development log
- New Update + Steam Wishlist is Live!7 days ago
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This game was fun! Can't wait for a full update with perhaps some backstory.
The update has really beefed the game up, keen for whats in store for the future of the game
this game sucks so much don't buy it
This game reminded of BUCKSHOT ROULETTE. I had a lot of fun playing it.
This game was so fun I'm so buying it when it comes out on steam
playing the update. Also hope to be full time on yt one day
WHY IS HE SMARTER THAN ME?!
check out my video on it
Its awesome that the AI isnt completely stupid. It will send you for a loop at times. I did have one possible bug? I tested a pill and it came back safe, so I took it, but it killed me. Not sure why that happened. Otherwise a pretty fun game. I can't wait to see how it develops over time.
you can softlock the game by using the replicator if your opponent has no items
Other than that, really great game! And I think I'm gonna put a few more episodes out about it!
amazing
love the new update. Keep it up. Plz make a hard mode.
New Side Effect Update and It Gets Weird!
Great horror game.
Já tinha jogado a outra versão e gostei muito das novas mecânicas do jogo e ele é bem divertido.
Fun game! Will be a good time analyzing the optimal strats.
A couple bugs I found: there seems to be a lock that can happen when the opponent uses a mouthclamp (6:19 in my video) and there seems to be minor issues with item selection (11:32). Basically I hovered over the duplicator and clicked, but the selection was still on the mint.
Update: seems to happen after a hammer is used on a known death pill. My guess is the logic to determine when to use the mouth clamp is relying on a list of death pills, but this list isn't getting updated properly after the hammer is used.
thanks for the bug reports! It most probably is that. I thought I updated the list of known pills but must have missed it. Thanks!!
(Edit) It was definitely this. Both the hammer and mouth clamp didn't update their list of death pills. Thanks for finding this!!!
Is anyone else now unable to play on desktop? :(
i cant play on my mac, not sure what the problem is. it says their unable to build the side effect page for mine, ill lyk i fi figure anything out tho!!
That's because it is a game made for windows and only windows, I hope you have better luck playing your next game.
Thank you! I really like this game so maybe it's still developing the update for browser!
I was really hoping taking out one eye or both would have some visible side effect for our vision
still nice feature tho
I love how simple yet exciting it is.
The Game reminds me of buckshot Roulette. Really nice with a strong strategic Element. Hope to see a full version soon. Wanna take a peek at the Gameplay?
I dont know if it was just me but it seemed like the Dude kept getting stuck when he used the Mouth Thing
I have it on My video down below
thanks for playing! That bug should be fixed now
Thank you Im going to go Repost on it now
Love the strategic element in this game, but I would love to see more done with the different pills.
he seems like a nice guy😄😄👍👍😀😐
this was amazing but the changes in the update in my opinion are awful
help God 😭
this is peak, dude!!!!
this is really good! but I found it VERY easy to win with a 50/50
The previous interface for presenting the pills, inside the orange jars, was far superior in my opinion. I feel it is more strategic than Buckshot, an excellent game.
I agree. I felt it fit the mood well, I'd like an option to have it back unless the developer has some game mechanic planned relating to it.
There is a bug where I detected a death pill and forced the other to take it.
After they died, the game is soft locked to the other patient's turn and they don't do anything.
I'm not sure about the reduced health, especially in the context of the new items. (They are really Powerful.)
UI is greatly improved.
I would love to see more switch ups in the pills.
Love to see the full release.
Very nice Buckshot Roulette game. And good update.
Bug report. I had detect a death pill and it was the last pill of the turn, but when I try to use the copy machine, I can't click the pill and there's nothing I can do.
the copy machine is for items
it literally tells you
well then it should have a cancle button cuz it still made me stuck and nothing I can do.
Really enjoyed the new update, this game’s got a lot of potential!
great update, only nitpick imo is to cool it with the shader
the readings on the machines can be an eyesore when they're a little blurry
Very epic. I would like to have more lives and more pills and for them to be random, meaning that the pills don't come in the same order.
Great Game! I love the new update, but when you hover your mouse over a pill, I don't think it should tell you the ratio of the pills. It might be better if that's a setting you can turn on and off.
is the in browser game not loading for anyone else
yes me
very cool