OneShot is a wildly interesting game. It's a few fairly straight-forward puzzles littered around a moderately-interesting-but-also-dying world. You do puzzles to advance the game, and guide Niko to their destiny. Yeah Niko's a cat-person-child of questionable gender but just go with it. Which is kind of the whole premise of the game: There's something weird that isn't explained, but-yeah-just-go-with-it.

I guess that's also the charm of the game. The characters are wacky and so incredibly charming, led by Niko who is so incredibly well-written that you can't help but love the poor little catperson.

By the end, it's so wildly high-stakes and heartbreaking that you can't help but be drawn in.

KIND OF SPOILERS FOR THIS ONE LINE, BUT NOT REALLY: I will say that the "postgame" was a lot weaker to me and felt unnecessary. I was happy with the ending, and continuing it felt just... it was fine, but unnecessary. END OF KIND OF SPOILERS IS HERE

So yeah, I highly recommend you play it because it's so incredibly good. As a caveat, if you don't find it charming by the end of the first area, the game probably isn't for you, because the game lives and dies on the charm of the characters.

Reviewed on Nov 19, 2023


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