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
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.
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~~ nevermind, the healing pills are green vs the normal yellow smiling face so I guess tested pills should be part of the calculated odds).
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.
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 cannot play it bc it keeps saying that its free but I have to pay I'm not bouta fucking pay for thiss dum shit so I kinda will have to fucking leave a bad review and fuckkin tell my kid to play this
This was the first game I played on stream. This game had me stressing especially towards the end! So much fun! Really enjoyed it so much! Gave my review at the end
← Return to game
Comments
Log in with itch.io to leave a comment.
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
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.
Some other things to note:
BUGS
IMPROVEMENTS (I would like to see happen)
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!
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\\
FIRE! Please continue development
Really fun game, would love some extra Feature
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
This is only a prototype as well??? I thought it was a fully developped game xd
love this game <3
good game
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
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.
it's incredible, I like it a lot
I cannot play it bc it keeps saying that its free but I have to pay I'm not bouta fucking pay for thiss dum shit so I kinda will have to fucking leave a bad review and fuckkin tell my kid to play this
click on the gray text above, and why do u even want to download the game u can run it on the browser
i gave u an upvote cause u a tuff ah blud
https://youtu.be/C1AVUbljyN4?si=BbcWKBfVnbOKSBiE
10 likes and I’ll make a part 2
Can't wait for the full game!
Didt work when he hit with a hammer .There are only 2 tablets left, blue and green
A great game! I had a lot of fun!
:D
was pretty fun, but it could be a lil longer
Good
Reminds me of Buckshot Roulette. Love these style of strategy games. Not quite horror, but awesome concept and design!
hey do you also like tower defense? I’d love if you try my grandmother defence
its a mirror guys