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OneShot: World Machine Edition

PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch • 2024

Should you play it?

A completely self-contained portable version of one of the highest user-rated games. Built on an entirely new engine with new UI, support for Steam Deck, & more. Features world-bending puzzles, intriguing denizens, surreal environments, and a captivating story about the truth of the game's reality.

What works

  • Emotional and immersive story
  • Unique fourth-wall-breaking mechanics
  • Quality of life improvements over original
  • Customizable virtual desktop and collectibles
  • Compatibility with steam deck and linux

Things to keep in mind

  • Less immersive than original due to virtual desktop
  • Some minor bugs reported
  • Short game length
  • Puzzles less impactful without real desktop interaction
  • Limited resolution options

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Grey Instinct

  • Space Pilgrim Episode III: Delta Pavonis

  • What Lies in the Multiverse

  • The Red Strings Club

  • Night Reverie: Prologue

  • Nut City Blues

Less intimate

Games that feels like OneShot: World Machine Edition but with less focus on close relationships

  • Eve of Souls: Static Pod

  • Zzzz-Zzzz-Zzzz

  • Fausts Alptraum

  • Slider

  • tERRORbane

  • Wolf & Rabbit

Less expressive

Games that feels like OneShot: World Machine Edition but with less self-expression and customization

  • Evan's Remains

  • candle flame in the wind

  • The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark

  • Coffin of Ashes

  • UNREAL LIFE

  • My Big Sister

Choose your own criteria ->

Similarity map

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Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

OneShot: World Machine Edition: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Survival, Violence, Competition, Thrill. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Intimacy, Expression, Thrill.

Last update: 04/08/2026