One Night Trilogy

Video game series

Released: —
Platforms: —
Genres: Psychological horror
Developers: —
Publishers: —
Modes: Single-player

About

The One Night Trilogy is the collective title for a series of freeware indie psychological horror games developed by Dark Gaia Studios using the RPG Maker VX engine. The games were released over a three-year period across the indie gaming community and elsewhere, have been showcased in PC Gamer magazine twice since their release and consistently feature in countdowns of the best games created with the RPG Maker engine. The three games do not follow in chronological order.

In 2013, a fourth game in the series was announced following a crowd funding campaign but its development has since been rebooted as the first game in an unrelated franchise.

The articlegameplay, story, development, reception

Reception

Since their release in the RPG Maker community, the three games have generated considerable popularity. The third game was featured in the October 2011 issue of PC Gamer in the United States, where it was listed as an "adorable top down horror game". An earlier version of the game also appeared in the magazine in February 2011, where it was commended for "turning survival horror into something that can be idly enjoyed in the afternoon", though with criticism given to its writing a narrative.

Within the RPG Maker community, the series has been stated as "ranking up there with some of the better games from the RPG Maker scene" by Sore Losers Gaming, an RPG Maker developer's blog. The first game was also featured on the official RPG Maker website for Halloween in 2011, with particular mention given to its soundtrack and puzzles, and all three games have been reviewed positively within the RPG Maker community.