OneShot

OneShot is a 2016 puzzle adventure game developed by the indie studio Future Cat and published by KOMODO. Based on a free version made on June 30, 2014, it was released for Windows on December 8, 2016. OneShot's gameplay and plot breaks the fourth wall and involve metafictional elements. Many of the puzzles involve interacting with the computer's operating system outside the game, but the console version, or the World Machine edition, has a fake operating system inside of the game. Narratively, the player is separate from the protagonist, Niko. The latter arrives in a world without sunlight and aims to restore it by replacing its sun, a large lightbulb, at the top of a tower. OneShot was developed in RPG Maker XP. The game was well-received by critics, who praised the story, art, and metafictional aspects of gameplay, including the relationship between the player and Niko. In 2017, the game was nominated for the "PC Game of the Year" category at the Golden Joystick Awards. A reworked console adaptation, OneShot: World Machine Edition, was released for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One in September, 2022, on Windows and Linux in September 2024, and on Mac in April 2025.