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Buckshot Roulette clone fails miserably.

Roulette Club is a game that released on August 25 and went completely under everyone’s radar, except people in China evidently. A 1:1 straight up ripoff of the popular and beloved suicide game Buckshot Roulette, Roulette Club is available for a mere 99 cents on the Steam store and launched to a peak concurrency of 26 players. There are 0 players on as I’m writing this article with a 24 hour peak of 6.

Virtually all of the reviews are negative and all of them are Chinese, with one of only a few positive reviews being a sarcastic “you can get this piece of shit for only 6 yuan.” The reviews point to the game having no functioning matchmaking, which makes sense since next to nobody is playing the game period. The matchmaking also apparently doesn’t connect at all, even with friends, and the game is as poorly built as you’d expect from a crappy Chinese knockoff with animations clipping through the models.

Going by (machine translated) reviews, while the game claims to have its interface translated to simplified and traditional Chinese, Chinese players are claiming that the game isn’t actually available in Chinese and is only in English. This leaves the game with a 14% negative rating across 21 reviews, and seemingly no hope of catching on to a bigger audience. An audience that the developer certainly doesn’t deserve releasing a ripoff of a beloved and innovative game.