Not Tonight
In an alternative Britain where Brexit talks have collapsed, an extreme far-right government has taken power. Citizens of European heritage have been rounded up and exiled. Forced out of your previous life, you find yourself in the midst of a booming gig economy, fighting to scrape by and return to the city you call home. Not Tonight is a post-Brexit management game, fusing a time-pressure RPG with a politically charged story where every decision matters. Will you join the resistance and fight the regime — or keep your head down and hope that one day this will all be a distant memory? Man the doors of pubs, clubs, festivals and parties, finding work via the BouncR app Check IDs, manage guestlists, and stop revellers from becoming unruly Upgrade your apartment, bouncer and equipment to better prepare yourself for the future Decide what lengths you'll go to in order to survive in a Britain on the verge of collapse
Steam User 48
I'm such a slut for alternative history games.... oh wait this is happening now
Steam User 36
A love letter to Papers Please, and a fart in the general direction of Brexit and its proponents.
Great use of pixel art, with a banger soundtrack and funny dialogue. Well executed and thoroughly enjoyable.
Steam User 9
Not to night is not a casual game.It is very unforgivable and punishes average players
I'd wish there's a neutral voting system but I can't so i'd recommend if it's on sale.
Cons
- Very difficult. If you play below average it will be extremely hard to finish the game.
- RNG can make some stage impossible to finish.
- Lack of retry button makes it tedious to restart a stage.
- Can not pick which upgrade you want and will end up getting cosmetic upgrade instead of useful ones.
Pros
- If you like Paper please you will like this game.
- Beautiful pixel art style. Various location.
- Nice music to listen.
- Game play is fun and can be addictive (would've been great if not for the difficulty)
Steam User 21
It's repetitive, but it's fun and I couldn't stop until I got all achievements. As a EURO who used to live in the UK I took this one personally. Love the idea and dark humor of devs. Screw Brexit.
p.s I shazamed more songs that I'd like to admit lol
Steam User 5
This game is okay... story is completly forgettable and it's the usual government bad let's side with the revolution, just like Paper's Please that seems to be the main inspiration for this game. The brexit setting at least is kinda original. Art is nice and the soundtrack is great.
The biggest problem is the extremely repetitive and boring gameplay loop. It arguably worked for Paper's please because it was 30 days and the game gets really more complex with more documents and possible errors to analyze. Here it's always the same documents and errors, the game gets harder by just giving you more people with invalid documents to deny so you get less money, and also by giving you a health score so you need to skip some days to rest, and it lasts for 90!!! days... by the end of it you are just tired of this shit and wants the game to end already, this is wayyy too long and is legit one of the most boring games I have played, you do the same shit for 10 hours and the game ends in a pretty underwhelming way.
I'm recommending because the game is okay and was novel at the start and kinda fun for a bit, but I would say for you to just play one of the other Paper's Please-like instead of this.
Steam User 8
I put off buying this for a while because I'd heard it was a poor man's Papers Please and, yeah, it's very clear where the inspiration came from here. However, the core gameplay of document validation is solid, even if it won't sound like it to newcomers, although it doesn't quite feature the same level of moral dilemma.
Instead of Soviet desperation, the backdrop here is a post-Brexit Britain sliding happily towards becoming a fascist ethnostate; it's quite tongue-in-cheek while also making a point about the direction the real-life island is headed in, which seems to have ruffled more than a few feathers. Your character is a nightclub bouncer rather than a checkpoint border guard, so the stakes don't seem as high, but there are some ongoing threads that keep you involved in the bigger story as a whole.
It's satisfying fun, with some nice retro graphics and some really cracking tunes that the clubs belt out. If you liked Papers Please and aren't outraged by the idea that creeping fascism might be a bad idea, there's plenty to like here, and I've replayed it a few times. The end is a bit shite, unfortunately, but it's not a po-faced polemic so I can overlook a random "...and then everything was suddenly OK" finale.
Would recommend, along with the kooky One Love DLC, and will be buying the sequel at some point.
Steam User 9
Dave is racist just like me