Metascore
71

Mixed or average reviews - based on 10 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 10
  2. Negative: 0 out of 10
  1. Sep 5, 2018
    81
    All talk, conjecture, and analysis aside Not Tonight is great. As I stated before, if you liked Papers Please you’ll love this game. You don’t even need to be into the graphics or politics to get a kick out of this game. Not Tonight delivers pure-bred fun and challenge in a way that rarely, if ever, feels cheap. The game is well worth your time picking up if you can manage to push through the massive pool of levels.
  2. Sep 10, 2018
    80
    Not Tonight is a good, solid game. The mechanics are fun, the characters are memorable, and the setting is well executed. However, for its satirical approach, it should have gone a few steps further, and taken the risk in order to become the truly biting, funny, and meaningful social commentary that it wants to be.
  3. Aug 19, 2018
    80
    Not Tonight is a surprisingly deep and engaging game that will suck you in. If you let it. Of course, the politics aren't to everybody's liking, but the game more than makes up for it with great wit, as it tackles - to an extent - deep subjects. The gameplay can be artificially difficult at times, but is still as engaging as the obvious inspiration: Papers, Please. Should you play Not Tonight? Yes, yes you should.
  4. Mar 11, 2019
    75
    Papers, Please with a Brexit twist! Fun game with come nice humor and atmospheric music, with cute pixel visuals.
  5. Aug 28, 2018
    71
    Social commentary delivered with baseball bat subtlety, Not Tonight owes a huge debt to Papers, Please, but finds its own voice in the bit-parts of post-Brexit Britain.
  6. games(TM)
    Oct 4, 2018
    70
    A flawed but enjoyable rework of Papers, Please. [Issue#205, p.84]
  7. CD-Action
    Jan 9, 2019
    65
    The developers took on a difficult subject and tripped. They managed to conjure a proper dystopian setting, but the story is too shallow to make a proper impression. [11/2018, p.79]
  8. Sep 3, 2018
    65
    Not Tonight is Papers, Please-like set in a post-Brexit GB; it sounds good, but it misses some points.
  9. Sep 11, 2018
    60
    It’s hard to recommend Not Tonight, which is a shame as I like the idea. If the execution had been better, this could have been a great game. As it is, it’s a competent clone of a better game.
  10. Aug 18, 2018
    60
    Not Tonight proves that the Papers Please formula can work in a less soviet setting, but the experience is slightly diminished by the transplant. Yet it’s eccentricities remain endearing, with characters, landscapes and a haunting sound of muffled music that will be rambling around my skull for a little while yet.
User Score
6.6

Mixed or average reviews- based on 32 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 17 out of 32
  2. Negative: 7 out of 32
  1. Sep 13, 2018
    9
    This game feels like Papers Pleas and plays similar to Papers Pleas. Game play is easy and story is rich.
  2. Mar 12, 2022
    4
    This game is way too long considering how slowly they introduce new mechanics if ever.

    Story and tone-wise the game is all over the place
    This game is way too long considering how slowly they introduce new mechanics if ever.

    Story and tone-wise the game is all over the place and even if done so by choice it makes the whole thing rather en-engaging.

    Last but not least is the misuse of music and sound in this game, what a big missed opportunity.
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  3. Jul 22, 2021
    10
    it's like paper please but set in a dystopian post Brexit world. the game-play is fun and easy to understand for casual gamers . it has a goodit's like paper please but set in a dystopian post Brexit world. the game-play is fun and easy to understand for casual gamers . it has a good story plot and funny conversations. the characters are well thought out . the art and music of the game is truly amazing. would recommend buying it, especially on sales. Full Review »