History VideoGame / OneShot

* AnAesop: With the Solstice update: [[spoiler:just because something like a robot, a world, or a character isn't real, doesn't mean the bond one forms with it isn't worth appreciating. As Rue puts it with regard to robots, it is a [[WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief "complete suspension of disbelief"]] where, even knowing it isn't a real person, one forms a bond with it as if it is]].

[[caption-width-right:350:'''[[YouAreTooLate [=[You're already too late]=]]][softreturn][[ItIsBeyondSaving [=[The world isn't worth saving anymore.]=]]]''']]

''([[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou a pop-up appears on]] ''[[InterfaceScrew your]]'' [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou computer]])'' You only have [[TitleDrop one shot,]] [[HelloInsertNameHere [YOUR_NAME].]]

''([[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou a pop-up appears on ]]''[[InterfaceScrew your]]''[[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou computer]])'' You only have [[TitleDrop one shot,]] [[HelloInsertNameHere [YOUR_NAME].]]

''(a pop-up appears on ''your'' computer)'' You only have one shot, [YOUR_NAME].

[[Music/{{Eminem}} This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo]]

''[=OneShot=]'' is an UsefulNotes/RPGMaker 2014 Puzzle/Adventure game where you, the player, must guide a lost child through a strange world, utilizing items, characters, and the environment to progress. The game was created by Eliza Velasquez and [=NightMargin=] (Casey Gu) and was entered in the 2014 Indie Game Maker Contest. An UpdatedRerelease made using RPG Maker XP was released on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} on December 8, 2016, followed by a large content update on March 26th, 2017.

On ''[=OneShot=]'''s 5th anniversary, a new UpdatedRerelease titled ''[=OneShot=]: World Machine Edition'' was announced [[https://twitter.com/NightMargin/status/1468581839623180289 by NightMargin]] for the UsefulNotes/{{Nintendo Switch}}, UsefulNotes/{{PS4}}, and UsefulNotes/XboxOne, which was released in September 22, 2022.

* SekaikeiGenre: [[TheChosenOne The the only one who can save the world]] is a young child named Niko, who has been transported to this world and can only return home once the sun (a giant lightbulb) is returned to the top of a tower. [[spoiler: At the end of the game it is revealed that the only way for Niko to return home is to smash the lighbulb - which would destroy the world. The player - whom [[BreakingTheFourthWall Niko has been talking with directly throughout the game]] [[SadisticChoice has to choose between saving the world and letting Niko return home]]. The [[GoldenEnding true ending]] lets you do both, but this was released after the original game and requires getting one of the other endings first.]]

* WhamShot: Before the 1.003 version[[labelnote:note]]Since this update, the game will only erase your save file and you'll only have to start from the beginning.[[/labelnote]], if you launched an unsaved game (if you forced it to stop before Niko reached the save point), [[spoiler:the light bulb on the title screen would be broken and only Niko's hat would remain on the ground. After that, you had a shot of the bedroom they first woke up in [[NothingIsScarier with nobody in it]], then a Windows error would occur:]]