Not Tonight

A downloadable content game called Not Tonight: One Love was released for Steam on 25 June 2019; the DLC later came bundled up for the Take Back Control Edition at the time of the game's release. A sequel, Not Tonight 2, was announced in August 2021, and was released on 11 February 2022.

Publication is recorded by No More Robots. The recorded date of publication is 2018. It belongs to the series Not Tonight. It is associated with United Kingdom. Recorded genres are adventure video game, role-playing video game and simulation video game. The recorded subject matter is Brexit.

• Title — Not Tonight • Developer — PanicBarn • Engine — Unity • Publisher — No More Robots • Released — Microsoft Windows 17 August 2018 Nintendo Switch 31 January 2020 • Genre — Adventure, role-playing • Director — Tim Constant • Platforms — Microsoft Windows Nintendo Switch • Modes — Single-player

The gameplay of Not Tonight is based on the responsibilities of a bouncer, working in Albion (England) as a person of European heritage who was newly stripped of his or her British citizenship and has become stateless. As a bouncer, the player must analyse various parts of the guests' identification cards, checking whether they are under age, have provided expired documents, have provided fraudulent information, are hiding contraband, or have an incorrectly matching photograph, and determine whether to allow entry to an establishment. As the game progresses, the player must undertake additional measures as requested by larger venues or by the state. This includes: stopping various nationalities from entering, those who wear certain clothing, individuals who are not on the guest list, people without tickets, and various other rules as gameplay becomes more challenging. Additionally, the player can also accept bribes or sell recreational drugs which will immediately gain money at the expense of losing social credit. Failing to pass a mission will also result in social credit loss, which can prevent the player from gaining more jobs, damage their progress and even end the game in deportation if the score drops to 0. After every mission, the player returns to their flat to interact with other characters, pay any outstanding rent, and to purchase any items that they may need. While playing the game, the player must make decisions which will affect the story through various characters that can be encountered.

Not Tonight takes place primarily in England, which increasingly falls under the control of the nativist Albion First party and Prime Minister Simon Tavener. Taking advantage of social upheaval following a post-Brexit economic crisis, the British government has stripped citizenship from all Britons found to have ancestors from EU countries in the style of the Nuremberg Laws, relocating them to slum-like housing blocks in preparation for mass deportations. The player is one of those residents, stripped of their identity and referred to only as "Person of European Heritage #112" or #112 for short.

On 31 December 2018, #112 is working as a bouncer taking tickets at a New Year's Eve ball at the British Museum when a terror bombing suddenly occurs. The game then returns to 1 January 2018. Using their government-issued phone, #112 must take bouncer jobs in order to please his immigration officer Jupp and delay his seemingly-imminent deportation. As time progresses, #112 can make various decisions to either support the government or the resistance building up against Albion First. Jupp also conscripts the player into supporting his side hustle Jupp Security. If #112 survives and avoids deportation by the end of the year, he is arrested following the bombing and sent to a televised court hearing. Due to a lack of evidence, the judge summons a group of witnesses to assess #112's character, the last of which is Jupp. If most of the witnesses describe #112 positively, the judge chooses to investigate his accusations against Albion First. The judge finds Jupp guilty of illegally importing furniture and accuses Simon Tavener of conspiracy and electoral fraud, bringing down the Albion First government.

Not Tonight 2 was released on February 11, 2022 for Windows with a Nintendo Switch port released two years later on March 27, 2024. It has similar themes and gameplay to the original, but is set in a future, dystopian and collapsing United States that has been ravaged by a second secession of the South, the effects of climate change and a pandemic.