OneShot: World Machine Edition

The latter arrive in an unfamiliar world which has been deprived of its sunlight, and eventually aim to restore it by replacing its sun, a lightbulb, at the top of a tower. OneShot received largely positive reviews, with most reviewers praising its narrative and metafictional aspects, comparing it positively to other games such as Undertale. In 2017, the game was nominated for the "PC Game of the Year" Golden Joystick Award. In OneShot, the player controls the child Niko, who is placed into an unfamiliar sunless world. Throughout the game, Niko can rest, causing the program to close; upon reopening, a short dream sequence is played. As is typical for many adventure games, gameplay is primarily composed of solving puzzles involving items; the game lacks a combat system. Throughout the game, the player encounters computers, which signal that the player has to find content outside the game, including in the file system. According to the machine, the world that Niko currently is in is near ruin, and the player's goal is to guide them back to their homeworld. They discover the world's sun, which is the form of a lightbulb, and use it to exit the house, emerging in a barren wasteland. There they encounter a robot, which tells them that they are prophesied to save the world. Niko's goal is to carry the sun through its three areas, and place it at the apex of a central tower, restoring daylight; they are currently in the "Barrens". The robot teaches Niko to communicate with the player, telling Niko that the player is a god of the game's world whose responsibility is to guide the "Messiah" Niko. Niko meets Silver, a more sentient "tamed" robot, who gifts them a piece of amber that Niko uses as a guide to the next area. Now in the arboreal "Glen", Niko converses with the area's residents, including the younger child Alula and older child Calamus, as well as the nature spirit Maize. After gathering materials and creating a feather pen to get past a guard robot, they then enter the urbanized third area, the "Refuge", and travel down to the city's surface with the aid of a lamplighter.