One Night Stand could easily be broken down into a choose your own adventure short story if it wasn’t for the redeeming factor of the art style moving on screen. You’re expected to fill in the blank and while that may lend itself well to recreating a terse atmosphere akin to waking up with someone you don’t know, it does not lend itself well to something you’re going to playthrough multiple times. Your counterpart comes off as shallow and impersonal the more and more you get to know her because it becomes clear she doesn’t want to share much of anything. Right when you’re about to piece together what happened, the narrative shifts focus onto something else or ends entirely.
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This is perhaps the most interesting part of the game tho it never pans out to full disclosure. In between major scenes when you’re speaking with the mysterious stranger you’ll have opportunities to scavenge the room for clues and get your detective on. As an insight into a taboo-ish topic One Night Stand offers a cool reminder of how people come together but as a game it fails to challenge or introduce any interesting hooks. There are twelve conclusions to be had and they range from leaving the situation immediately upon waking to somehow ending up naked on the street. There’s not much game to be had as a playthrough mostly consists of reading dialogue and making choices in between scenes that eventually lead to an alternate ending. One Night Stand sounds sexy, but it quickly reveals itself to be much more innocent. The choices that arise are spot on with the questions that come after a wild night but as a game you get to experience it in the comfort of your own home with minimal to no embarrassment. You’ll click through text and occasionally get a chance to choose between three dialogue trees. A woman lies next to you and you’re given choices on what to do next. You wake up in a stranger’s bed and attempt to navigate the situation under amnesia and a wicked hangover. Whether or not you’ve been there first hand, this text adventure with multiple endings will serve as a reminder of awkward moments or a vision into what those would be like. This experience has become an almost rite of passage in the sexual revolution of recent times.
One Night Stand is a game about just that.
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