Russian Roulette: Online

Russian Roulette: Online is a multiplayer game built around a single risky premise, so the appeal is mostly in tension, bluffing, and watching a round swing on a tiny choice. By our assessment, that narrow focus is also its main strength: the whole session can move fast, with almost no setup and very little to learn. The downside is equally clear, because there is not much room for variety once the idea is understood, and the joke of the format can wear thin quickly. In practice this kind of game lives or dies on the group playing it, the chat around it, and how much they enjoy high-variance nonsense. It sits closer to a novelty party game than to a deep competitive title, and that is both its point and its ceiling. Russian Roulette: Online is not a long-haul game; it is a short burst of nerves and repetition.