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OneShot: World Machine Edition will bring the quietly beloved RPG to Steam DeckHandy
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OneShot: World Machine Edition Steam Teaser TrailerWatch on YouTube
OneShot: World Machine Edition Steam Teaser Trailer
This edition has been available on Nintendo Switch since 2022, but it’s coming to Steam on September 30th. It has been “completely rebuilt for modern portable consoles,” say developers Future Cat. “With an entirely new engine, new UI, new hidden collectibles, support for more platforms, and more.” Owners of the original game will get it at a 50% discounton Steam(but only during the first week after launch). There’s also a gallery with character backstories, a “music box”, a viewer for game art, and a selection of wallpapers for a fictional operating system that will now exist in-game.
OneShot was originally made in RPGMaker, and pushed the scrappy DIY engine to strange limits that - at the time - felt novel and sometimes vaguely unsettling. It exists in the same realm as self-aware games likePony IslandorDoki Doki Literature Club, repeatedly breaking the fourth wall and reaching out to you as a player and controller of your computer’s environment. But these PC-centric quirks meant it wasn’t playable on consoles. This edition is basically a remaster to address that.
“I’ve never played a game like OneShot”, said John inour review. “It’s also been a really long time since I’ve cared about a game’s main character quite so much, to the point where decisions really mattered to me. Which is rather a lot to say of a game made in RPGMaker. But then this is a game that does stuff with that cutesy engine that I would never have thought possible.”
