#ONE NIGHT STAND GAME JAM FULL#
The game’s brevity may turn some people off, but it only costs $3 at full price, and the experience is rather unlike anything else you’re likely to play. It’s hard to find anything not to recommend, here. Combined with a minimalistic soundscape that features soft music and the occasional sound effect (no voice acting), One Night Stand lands in a sweet spot, leaving something to the imagination while immediately distinguishing itself from most other titles. It sports a visual style somewhere between traditional animation and rotoscoping, and this lends it a wonderfully unique atmosphere. Not much can be said about the game as a whole without spoiling the bulk of what makes one’s time with it fun and surprising, but there’s no question that it looks the part. Many of these are permutations on a few different themes, but it’s a lot of fun trying to find the paths that lead to them, especially given that the game’s strong sense of character makes getting the more positive ones feel important. The game itself is very short, originally being a creation for a game jam, but encourages experimentation in multiple playthroughs given its numerous endings. Some actions are more honest than others (you can choose to rifle through some of the woman’s more personal things when she’s not looking, sift through your own discarded items, or even reveal choice bits of information to a friend of yours via your phone), and the combination of things you choose to say, look at, and do will ultimately bring you to one of the game’s 12 endings. Who is she? Where did you go? What did you do? The formula is fun and mildly stressful: you only have so much time to try putting the pieces together, and you’ll never quite know which actions you take will bring about what results. You wake up in bed with a woman in a strange apartment, apparently having gotten so drunk the evening prior that you can’t remember what happened. One Night Stand is something of a visual novel, and thus explores its questions of sex and human relationships from the standpoint of a short story with branching options. Gary is interested in your situation, but how much are you willing to divulge?
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