One Night Stand (video game)

Players take the role of a man who has just woken up beside a woman in her apartment. Despite not remembering the events of the previous night, the player learns their character has had sex with the woman. When the woman leaves the room, the player has the opportunity to look around, then question the woman about the various objects found. Based on the player's actions and dialogue choices, they can unlock many different endings, ranging from being angrily kicked out to the possibility of friendship. In the most recent update, there is an ending of her playing the guitar and becoming more than friends with the character.^[1]

One Night Stand is independent video game developer Lucy Blundell's first game.^[2] It is based on a free game that Blundell designed with a friend for a game jam at itch.io.^[3] The inspiration came from a young man she saw on public transportation. While trying to guess at reasons for his miserable-looking state, she found the idea that he was recovering from a drunken one-night stand interesting.^[4] The game is rotoscoped based on footage that Blundell shot of herself via a cell phone.^[1] One Night Stand was developed using the free Ren'Py visual novel software, and Blundell credited its community with supporting her.^[4]

The free version of One Night Stand was released on March 24, 2016. The commercial version was released on October 20 on itch.io and November 7 on Steam.^[2] Blundell credited the free version as making the Steam greenlight process easier.^[3] The free version also acted as a demo, which she said helped to dispel players' fears that the game would be outside their demographic,^[5] though she said the free version's popularity eclipsed that of the commercial version.^[3] Ports for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One were released in October 2019 by Ratalaika Games.^[6][7]