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I'm getting married next year, which means I can reasonably expect to sleep with one person for the rest of my life - barring any situations involving car keys being placed into a bowl, that is. Not that I have a car. Anyway, my point is that it's been a long time since I had a one night stand, so I wasn't quite sure what to expect when jumping into One Night Stand on Steam. What I got was an extremely potent flashback to my bed-hopping early twenties and all the feelings of awkwardness, vulnerability and faux-Catholic guilt that characterised that period. I realise that doesn't sound like the most ringing endorsement for a video game, but bear with me. One Night Stand is a game in which you wake up naked in a stranger's bed, unable to remember what happened to you the night before. As the minutes tick slowly by, you attempt to piece together what happened last night by talking to your former bedfellow and - whenever she nips out to do something - snooping around her bedroom.
The items you find in the room open up new dialogue options, many of which hint at there being more to this tale than a simple drunken hookup - issues of consent, identity and the burning question of what comes next are all raised. You can also play as a complete pig, if you want to - I don't know many games that will let you attempt to steal someone's underwear in the first two minutes, but One Night Stand certainly isn't afraid to go there.
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