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Not Tonight: Take Back Control Edition
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? Not Tonight: One Love is a full, extra chapter that follows on from the main Not Tonight storyline. King's Head Dave has had just about enough of everything happening in Britain, and has decided to pack up and move to France, in the hope of finding true love.
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15 reviews found90
Pure Nintendo
Feb 3, 2020
Not Tonight is a simple yet effective game that is sure to resonate with anyone living through the chaos of Brexit.
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Digitally Downloaded
Jan 30, 2020
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GamingTrend
Jan 31, 2020
Not Tonight: Take Back Control Edition is equal parts stressful and fun. The risk and reward approach had me questioning my decisions while the perfect difficulty curve made sure I was never bored. The story is simple but effective and very fun. Not Tonight is simply fantastic in all regards. Excellent Not Tonight: Take Back Control Edition Not Tonight: Take Back Control Edition is equal parts stressful and fun.
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Critical Hit
Jan 27, 2020
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FingerGuns
Jan 31, 2020
Not Tonight begins as it means to go on. You’re quickly introduced to your protagonist, a British national with European lineage. They’re stuck in the Britain that no longer sees them as worthy inhabitants of their proud nation, keeping them around only to work the menial jobs and live in the crappiest of accomodation built specifically for those ‘Euros’. Your job as a character who is most assuredly British but just ‘doesn’t look like it’ is that of a bouncer, going from pub to pub working for landlords who are either going to be decent to their ‘Euro’ or not. Your overall task is to earn enough money to earn the right to stay in the country, and even then there’s no guarantee.
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Switch Player
Jan 31, 2020
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CGMagazine
Feb 4, 2020
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Eurogamer Italy
Jan 30, 2020
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COGconnected
Feb 10, 2020
Overall, Not Tonight is incredibly fun – repetitive, but fun. The different conditions in each level keeps the monotony of the task interesting, and the strange situations that challenge your moral reasoning makes each hour spent more entertaining than the next. With its satirical tone and quirky storyline, the game mocks political movements and stereotypical characters while presenting to us a simulation game for adults to enjoy. After spending hours playing this game, I feel like I could probably work as a pretty efficient bouncer in real life now.
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NintendoWorldReport
Feb 10, 2020
Not Tonight is the video game equivalent of a protest song – a piece the artist releases to the world with the intent to elevate a social movement or perceived injustice. I suspect the story will act as a Rorschach test of your political alignment depending on whether you love or hate it. Some could critique it as being too on the nose, but the lack of subtlety feels genuine in this moment. I don’t have enough of a personal insight into Brexit to know whether this is an accurate portrayal of Great Britain’s current trajectory.
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