History VideoGame / NotTonight

* YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe: The Vicar of the Angels shifts speaketh this way when he talketh unto #112.

** [[spoiler:The tales for undercover cops are if the Cheeser's hat is facing left and is more reddish, the bubbles for Powah Pills are purple instead of cyan, and the shirts worn for the fake Face Drops abusers have longer cyan stripes.]]

* ImposterForgotOneDetail: The undercover cops who show up in an attempt to trap you selling drugs to them have their telling features done slightly wrong: The Cheeseheads have their cheese hats the wrong way and miscoloured, the Power-Pills users have miscoloured/triangle-shaped bubbles coming off their heads and Face-Droppers users have the cyan lines on their shirts noticeably longer.

** For that matter, taking days off work, selling drugs, and taking bribes [[spoiler:hurt your social credit score.]]
** Working for several days straight even with adequate facilities and especially without adequate facilities in your flat so that you run out of HitPoints? [[spoiler:[[CriticalExistenceFailure Die.]]]]

* UnwittingPawn: Jupp makes it clear that [[PlayerCharacter you]] are just a tool for his rise to power, and once your visa expires, [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness he is not exactly unhappy to see you go]]. Should the player supports the Resistance, [[spoiler:[[{{Irony}} Jupp himself becomes one]] as you work for him so that his rise to power brings the Resistance closer to shutting down Albion First.]]

''[[http://nottonightgame.com/ Not Tonight]]'' is a self-proclaimed "dark political comedy RPG set in (a) {{dystopia}}n [[CrapsackWorld Post-Brexit Britain]]". Much like ''VideoGame/PapersPlease'' in gameplay, only instead of being a [[ObstructiveBureaucrat border checkpoint inspector]], you are a {{bouncer}} checking everyone's ID and papers to see if they are in order. Throughout your career, you encounter odd sorts of people while trying to stay in the country through increasingly lucrative work, and eventually discovers resentment toward the ruling government and the reality that "Britain Alone" isn't as great as the leaders claim it to be.

* YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe: The Vicar of the Angels shifts speaketh this way when he talketh to #112.

* FantasticDrug: [=CheeseR=], Powah Pills, and Face Drops are the drugs that you could buy and resell at a big profit at the cost of your social credit score [[spoiler:and increases your chance of getting a guilty verdict at your trial at the end of the game. In fact, the only thing the 10 [=CheesR=]s Ferris gives you are good for is when you want to let Tarquin Futtock-Smyth join your side of the Resistance by first rejecting him entry at the Indie Chunes Festival and then handing him the 10 [=CheesR=]s at your flat by Friday.]]

* FantasticDrug: [=CheeseR=], Powah Pills, and Face Drops are the drugs that you could buy and resell at a big profit at the cost of your social credit score [[spoiler:and increases your chance of getting a guilty verdict at your trial at the end of the game. In fact, the only thing the 10 [=CheesR=]s Ferris gives you are good for is when you want to let Tarquin F. Smyth join your side of the Resistance by first rejecting him entry at the Indie Chunes Festival and then handing him the 10 [=CheesR=]s at your flat by Friday.]]

* {{Bouncer}}: You are assigned this job.

* BenevolentBoss: David Stobart (who later changes his name to Dave Golden), the head of the Kings Head pub, is a great boss to work for and hates any racist discrimination even if he has to participate in it.

** An early sidequest shows that anything not made in Britain is illegal, as shown by the Italian "Dorsecco" bottles and the saleslady who accidentally sold them being blackmailed over it. [[spoiler:This fact bites Jupp hard in the GoldenEnding, as Galahad broke into his office and found that it was filled with Swedish furniture, much to the fury of the Government.]]

* TheGovernment: Albion First, led by [[PresidentEvil Prime Minister Simon Taverner.]]

** [[GoldenEnding Not Guilty verdict]]: [[spoiler:[[ThePowerOfFriendship The player is deemed trustworthy by his associates and Jupp]], and thus the Royal Court [[ThrowTheDogABone acquits the player and decides to investigate the player's claims of Albion First's fraud and wrongdoing]]. Tavener and his party is toppled and many of his xenophobic policies reversed, [[TheGreatWall the London Wall]] falls, people of European heritage have their rights restored, Jupp is [[ReassignedToAntarctica assigned to Siberia]], Harrison gets a new talk show, [[TheReveal the Scorpion is the Minister of Agriculture]] and is [[SoProudOfYou proud of his daughter]], [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Dave comes back home and the King's Head is rebuilt, and the player does one last job for the developers]]. The [[TraumaCongaLine trauma associated with the events]] however may have been too much for some of the exiles, and many decided to [[LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain never speak of this again]]. [[BittersweetEnding The future of Britain is left uncertain, though cautiously optimistic.]]]]

** In the first chapter alone, the medal at King's Head [[spoiler:belongs to Viklav, and eventually introduces the player to the Resistance should it be returned to the rightful owner]].

* FakeBrit: InUniverse: [[spoiler:Inverted with Viklav and Mylarna; they're actually from Basingstoke, but put on a fake accent so law enforcement will underestimate them.]]

** Shannon's story in a nutshell. [[spoiler:Initially, she had to deal with being underage (her birthday being in March). Then, after a TimeSkip, she's now over 18 but now faces her ID having Irish nationality. After another one, she finally got her British citizenship, but her social credit score is piss-poor every time she visits any location. Whether she gets through a venue or is given something she wants (records) [[VideoGameCaringPotential ultimately]] lies in the PlayerCharacter's [[InSpiteOfANail discretion]].]]

** [[spoiler:The tells for undercover cops is if the Cheeser's hat is facing left and is more reddish, the bubbles for Powah Pills are purple instead of cyan, and the shirts worn for the fake Face Drops abusers have longer cyan stripes.]]

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[spoiler:After Viklav loses his case, he and Mylarna decides to bug out to France. Dave follows suit shortly afterwards, [[MyCountryTisOfTheeThatISting having seen how far his country has fallen.]]]]

** One possible VIP Password is [[VideoGame/RType R-Typewriter]].
** It's revealed in the end that [[spoiler:Officer Jupp is a fan of IKEA furniture, much to the fury of the Royal Court.]]

* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: [[spoiler:You help Galahad do this to force the Albion First's New Years' Eve ball into London as part of the Resistance's plan to expose the bomber as one of Albion First's own committing a FalseFlagOperation. This was necessary so that the resistance would know where the party would take place.]]
* TooDumbToLive: Even after the player starts refusing entry for [[FailedASpotCheck various problems with their documents]], there are ''still'' people who try to get in with invalid documents. Partially {{justified}} with The King's Head as the bouncer before the player allowed entry to under 18 patrons. See below for one such patron.

** And of course, there are a selected few who tries to bribe the player into letting them in, or skip the bribe and move straight to forcing their documents into the player's hands. [[EnragedByIdiocy Don't count on either working.]]

** Fortunately, after a TimeSkip [[{{Subverted}} she is no longer underage]]. [[spoiler:[[ForWantOfANail Unfortunately for her]], [[MovingTheGoalPost Albion First passed laws that banned Irish, French, and Italian nationality]], and until October 2018 she was Irish...]]
* UnwinnableByDesign: [[spoiler: If you fail to complete all the necessary steps to bake the poison for the ball during Chapter 3 (which can happen about halfway through the month) the game let you play until the end of the month anyway before giving you a [[DownerEnding Downer Ending]]]].

* ChekhovsGun: ''[[UpToEleven Almost every establishment you visits has something that can help the player in some capacity.]]'' Provided you are head doorman for the establishment, of course.

* FantasticDrug: [=CheeseR=], Powah Pills, and Face Drops are the drugs that you could buy and resell at a big profit at the cost of your social credit score [[spoiler:and increases your chance of getting a guilty verdict at your trial at the end of the game]].

** [[MiscarriageOfJustice Guilty verdict]]: [[spoiler:Despite identifying the bomber, the player was deemed untrustworthy and instead [[ConvictedByPublicOpinion convicted of the bombing]], spending the rest of his/her life in prison. Albion First blames the bombing on the Resistance and [[DownerEnding enacts policies that turn Britain into a draconian nightmare.]] Again.]]

It is the year 2018. Following Brexit in 2016 and the rise of a [[AggressiveCategorism Europhobic government]], the [[GovernmentAgencyOfFiction Department of Euro Aliens]] has the citizenship of people with less than two generations of British citizenship revoked, and has herded many of them into "relocation camps", with the inevitable outcome of deportation unless they each make £30000 per year (£2500 per month). You are one of them, and have been assigned the job of [[{{Bouncer}} BouncR]] to make ends meet... and to, as [[StateSec Integration Officer Jupp]] said, maybe stay in the country. ''[[FalseReassurance Maybe.]]''

* ActionPrologue: The game starts on New Year's Eve 2018, and you get to control your avatar as you talk to Inpector Officer Jupp, get your things, and start admitting 20 guests for tickets... but you only get five before the Albion First Ball is blown sky high. The game then segues back to about a year prior, which is where the real game begins.

* AlternateHistory: In this game, not only did the British government fully break from the European Union, but has gone further, with the deportation of people who do not have British citizens as parents and grandparents. As a result, the country is experiencing an economic downturn it has yet to recover. In RealLife, British people with a parent or grandparent of European heritage were allowed to stay, as were EU citizens granted settled/pre-settled status[[note]]assuming they pass the background checks when applying, EU citizens who had lived in the United Kingdom for at least five years were granted settled, those present for fewer than that are granted pre-settled, which can then be upgraded to settled once they reach the five year period; either status grants the same rights as when the United Kingdom was in the EU[[/note]] by 30 June 2021.

* BunnyEarsLawyer: Galahad may be an irritating member of the resistance who constantly tries to contact Guinevere, much to her annoyance and leads to her blocking him on social media, and he constantly [[WithCatlikeTread (and loudly)]] shows his support for the resistance, but he's very good at infiltration, having studied and abused a loophole in the Jupp Security rules due to [[spoiler:no one suspecting that Europeans would show up to major events celebrating against them, so there wasn't a rule in the first place preventing Europeans from entering said events if their paperwork was exactly in order otherwise. He manages to literally poison an entire party, putting the resistance's plans into motion and after breaking into Jupp's office after finding it with [[ChekhovsGun a pencil with the address on it]] and turning the anti-Euro government against the former after finding out that it was filled with Swedish furniture.]]
* CheatersNeverProsper: Some pubs require you to reject anyone who is not on the guest list enters the guest lane even if they have valid papers.

** In the first chapter alone, the medal at King's Head [[spoiler:belongs to Viklav, and eventually introduces the player to the Resistance should it be returned to the rightful owner.]]

* CrapsackWorld: The Pound is failing thanks to an economic recession brought on by the departure of UK from the European Union, the subsequent [[AggressiveCategorism crackdown on non-"natives"]], and the isolation of the {{Dystopia}}n Britain due to various tariffs and the government's own policies. There are protests against the government handling of the situation, and [[spoiler:it has gotten to a point that there are secret plots against the government.]]

* FakeBrit: InUniverse: [[spoiler:Inverted with Viklav and Mylarna; They're actually from Basingstoke, but put on a fake accent so law enforcement will underestimate them.]]

** The Food program for Euros in October [[spoiler:is really a ploy by Tavener to get Euros deported ''faster''. And you are helping the effort by doing that job. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Thanks a lot.]] [[IDidWhatIHadToDo Not that you have a choice.]]]]

** While something of an InUniverse CallBack, the bombing at New Year's Eve Ball [[spoiler:hints at the bombing of King's Head mid-way through Chapter 1.]]
** Guinevere mentions having her father in the government [[TheMole as a Resistance mole]], and she and [[BunnyEarsLawyer Galahad]] mentions having a mole in the government. [[spoiler:In the ending where Albion First is deposed, The Scorpion is revealed to be the Minister of Agriculture and is "proud of his daughter", heavily implied to be Guinevere.]]

** Euro #112 gets roped into this mess [[MultipleChoicePast because]] they had a secret Nordic grandfather with an inconveniently-missing immigration form / their grandmother surrendered her British heritage during a divorce which uprooted the family tree / they're considered Spanish despite being born in Britain.
** Shannon's story in a nutshell. [[spoiler:Initially, she had to deal with being underage (her birthday being in March). Then, after a TimeSkip, she's now over 18 but now faces her ID having Irish nationality. After another one, she finally got her British citizenship, but her social credit score is piss-poor every time she visits any location. Whether she gets through a venue or give her something she wants (records) [[VideoGameCaringPotential ultimately]] lies in the PlayerCharacter's [[InSpiteOfANail discretion]].]]

** [[spoiler: The player [[ForWantOfANail is injured while helping Mylarna move a piano]], and a subsequent operation [[HarmfulHealing does more harm than good]], forcing the player to juggle his/her health while still working jobs. Albion first meanwhile uses the January bombing to start building the London [[UnusualEuphemism Flood]] Barrier, and later rigs the summer election in their favor.]]

** All this [[spoiler:culminates in the New Year's Eve Ball, which is [[GambitPileUp where the next government-sponsored terrorism takes place]].]]

* HarmfulHealing: [[spoiler:The person who "treats" you after you drop a piano on your toe [[BackAlleyDoctor admits to not being a real doctor and says that he removed "several unused organs" while operating on you]]. He says that [[AggressiveCategorism real doctors are reserved for British people only]]. [[SpannerInTheWorks This permanently damages your health so that you no longer have the unlimited stamina you used to have before your accident and surgery]], and gives you a LifeMeter that you must take care of. [[FromBadToWorse Furthermore]], since you are considered a Euro, you have no health insurance coverage under the NHS and have to pay your hospital bills.]]

** [[spoiler:Whether the Royal Court will listen to the player depends purely on the character and relationship of his associates and peers. If the player has good standing, Albion First will be [[HoistByHisOwnPetard investigated and eventually toppled for committing fraud and conspiracy ]]''[[HoistByHisOwnPetard purely ]]''[[HoistByHisOwnPetard based on his/her claims.]]]]

* LighterAndSofter: The One Love DLC has a much milder plot with Dave trying to find love in France, or risk losing a lot of money due to a scam of he doesn’t.
* LuxuryPrisonSuite: Your flat if you have upgraded its walls with the wooden panel walls, upgraded your heater and bed to the best models, bought the radio, and bought the best refrigerator and coffee maker possible is one of these. It is still in the ghettoes that Albion First has set up for those who have European heritage.

* NonstandardGameOver: The player can die from overworking or get deported from low social score. [[DownerEnding Both leads to a generic ending where deportation of those with European Heritage continues to its logical conclusion.]]

* BackAlleyDoctor: [[spoiler:The person who "treats" you after you drop a piano on your toe admits to not being a real doctor and says that he removed "several unused organs" while operating on you. He says that real doctors are reserved for British people only. [[HarmfulHealing This permanently damages your health so that you no longer have the unlimited stamina you used to have before your accident and surgery.]] [[FromBadToWorse Furthermore]], since [[AggressiveCategorism you are considered a Euro]], you have no health insurance coverage under the NHS and have to pay your hospital bills.]]
* BadBoss: Officer Julian Jupp requires you to work for him from time to time. If you fail any jobs, [[spoiler:[[YouHaveFailedMe it's off to Europe for you.]]]]

* BittersweetEnding: In the GoldenEnding, [[spoiler:Everything and everyone involved with Albion First gets investigated and is subsequently abolished. The London Wall falls down and the Euro Relocation Blocks are closed down. Europeans as a whole are finally free, but the events that year have heavily traumatised everyone and those already deported as well as Mylarna, Viklav and Dave likely won’t ever return to England.]]

It is year 2018. Following Brexit in 2016 and the rise of a [[AggressiveCategorism Europhobic government]], the [[GovernmentAgencyOfFiction Department of Euro Aliens]] has the citizenship of people with less than two generations of British citizenship revoked, and has herded many of them into "relocation camps", with the inevitable outcome of deportation unless they each make £30000 per year (£2500 per month). You are one of them, and has been assigned the job of [[{{Bouncer}} BouncR]] to make ends meet... and to, as [[StateSec Integration Officer Jupp]] said, maybe stay in the country. ''[[FalseReassurance Maybe.]]''

Currently has a [[https://nottonight.gamepedia.com/Not_Tonight_Wiki wiki]].

* BribingYourWayToVictory: InUniverse. Noncitizens who earn £30000 a year (£2500 per month) get to maybe stay. ''[[FalseReassurance Maybe.]]'' [[spoiler:Jupp grants the player a one-year work visa after the latter scrapes enough to pay for it.]]

** Failing to pay the £2500 visa renewal fee? [[spoiler:It's off to Europe for you.]]

* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: Yes, the launch price for ''Not Tonight'' is determined by the events occurring in the server. [[spoiler: The launch price is $17.99 outside UK, and £15.49 in UK.]]

It is year 2018. Following Brexit in 2016 and the rise of a [[AggressiveCategorism Europhobic government]], the [[GovernmentAgencyOfFiction Department of Euro Aliens]] has the citizenship of people with less than two generations of British citizenship revoked, and has herded many of them into "relocation camps", with the inevitable outcome of deportation unless they each make £30000 per year (£2500 per month). You are one of them, and has been assigned the job of [[{{Bouncer}} BouncR]] to make ends meet... and to, as [[StateSec Integration Officer Jupp]] said, maybe stay in the country. ''[[FalseReassurance Maybe.]]''

Currently has a [[https://nottonight.gamepedia.com/Not_Tonight_Wiki wiki]]. [[NeedsWikiMagicLove Needs some love.]]

* BribingYourWayToVictory: InUniverse. Noncitizens who earn £30000 a year (£2500 per month) get to maybe stay. ''[[FalseReassurance Maybe.]]'' [[spoiler:Jupp grants the player a one-year work visa after the latter scrapes enough to pay for it.]]

** Failing to pay the £2500 visa renewal fee? [[spoiler:It's off to Europe for you.]]

* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: Yes, the launch price for ''Not Tonight'' is determined by the events occurring in the server. [[spoiler: The launch price is $17.99 outside UK, and £15.49 in UK.]]

** Guinevere mentions having her father in the government [[ReverseMole as a Resistance mole]], and she and [[BunnyEarsLawyer Galahad]] mentions having a mole in the government. [[spoiler:In the ending where Albion First is deposed, The Scorpion is revealed to be the Minister of Agriculture and is "proud of his daughter", heavily implied to be Guinevere.]]

* ReverseMole:
** [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname The Scorpion]] is a Resistance agent working inside the Albion First government. [[spoiler:He turns out to be the Minister of Agriculture, and Guinevere is implied to be his daughter.]]
** You can also become one in game.

* BunnyEarsLawer: Galahad may be an irritating member of the resistance who constantly tries to contact Guinevere, much to her annoyance and leads to her blocking him on social media, and he constantly [[WithCatlikeTread (and loudly)]] shows his support for the resistance, but he's very good at infiltration, having studied and abused a loophole in the Jupp Security rules due to [[spoiler:no one suspecting that Europeans would show up to major events celebrating against them, so there wasn't a rule in the first place preventing Europeans from entering said events if their paperwork was exactly in order. He manages to literally poison an entire party, putting the resistance's plans into motion and after breaking into Jupp's office after finding it with [[ChekhovsGun a pencil with the address on it]] and turning his beloved anti-Euro government against the former after finding out that it was filled with Swedish furniture.]]

** In the first chapter alone, the medal at King's Head [[spoiler: belongs to Viklav, and eventually introduces the player to the Resistance should it be returned to the rightful owner.]]

* FakeBrit: [[spoiler:Inverted with Viklav and Mylarna; They're actually from Basingstoke, but put on a fake accent so law enforcement will underestimate them.]]
* FalseFlagOperation: [[spoiler:The bombing on King's Head is orchestrated by Albion First. Eventually the Resistance discovers that they are also planning to attack the New Year's Eve Ball.]]
** The Food program for Euros in October [[spoiler: is really a ploy by Tavener to get Euros deported ''faster''. And you are helping the effort by doing that job. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Thanks a lot.]] [[IDidWhatIHadToDo Not that you have a choice.]]]]

* UnwinnableByDesign: [[spoiler: If you fail to complete all the necessary steps to bake the poison for the ball during chapter 3 (which can happen about halfway through the month) the game let you play until the ball itself before giving you a [[DownerEnding Downer ending]]]].

* UnwinnableByDesign: [[spoiler: If you fail to complete all the necessary steps to bake the poison for the ball during chapter 3 (which can happen about halfway through the month) the game let you play until the ball itself before giving you a [[DownerEnding Downer ending]].]]

* [[{{Bouncer}} BouncR]]: You are assigned this job.

* FailedASpotCheck: Since Albion First does not expect people of European heritage to be in the queue for their events, Jupp Security does not consider banning them. Should the player support the Resistance, [[spoiler:Galahad will arrived at the October Ball, and his papers will be in order ''[[ExactWords precisely]]'' because nationality is not being checked. This is useful for the Resistance as he can enter the place, and [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight no one will bat an eyelash at someone wearing a Resistance sweater screaming "Viva La Resistance", and carrying the poison manufactured by the player]].]]
* FakeBrit: [[spoiler: Inverted with Viklav and Mylarna; They're actually from Basingstoke, but put on a fake accent so law enforcement will underestimate them.]]

* ForWantOfANail: Shannon's story in a nutshell. [[spoiler:Initially, she had to deal with being underage (her birthday being in March). Then, after a TimeSkip, she's now over 18 but now faces her ID having Irish nationality. After another one, she finally got her British citizenship, but her social credit score is piss-poor every time she visits any location. Whether she gets through a venue or give her something she wants (records) [[VideoGameCaringPotential ultimately]] lies in the PlayerCharacter's [[InSpiteOfANail discretion]].]]

* KangarooCourt: [[spoiler:Viklav will always be convicted of the King's Head bombing even when the footage from the USB drive exonerates him and even if the player gives Mylarna money Dave raised to help him.]]

* MonumentalDamage: The Buckingham Palace got its dome blown off during the prologue. [[spoiler:Which turned out to be the flashback for the bombing at New Year's Eve, at the end of the game.]]

* MoodWhiplash: Players who do well enough but are on their last incident may find the music [[LettingTheAirOutOfTheBand suddenly die out]] if they make their failing incident.

** [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname The Scorpion]] is a Resistance agent working inside the Albion First government. [[spoiler: He turns out to be the Minister of Agriculture, and Guinevere is implied to be his daughter.]]

** The player character was born in the UK but missed citizenship because of their parentage/visa-issues. When dismissed or addressed as a foreigner (Dave of the King's Head, Mylarna, Viklav), they will initially attempt to explain this, but they are never allowed to get more than an "Actually..." in.

* [[YouAreNumberSix You Are Number 112]]: The PlayerCharacter.

* AlternateHistory: In this game, not only did the British government fully break from the European Union, but has gone further, with the deportation of people who do not have British citizens as parents and grandparents. As a result, the country is experiencing an economic downturn it has yet to recover. In RealLife, the Brexit process is still ongoing as of this writing, and Britain hasn't gone full Europhobic. [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment And that's all we will say about that.]]