10 Best Video Games Set In A Single Night

1. Night Trap

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Night Trap, the 1992 controversy-laden interactive film that helped to get the US Senate to create the ESRB (Entertainment Software Ratings Board) is, by modern standards, pretty tame, honestly. You can see wilder stuff on primetime TV, nowadays.

Regardless of whether or not you're entertained by the B-movie antics of some girls being kidnapped by dudes in terrible rubber suits, or the fact that you play as a member of an elite police force known as S.C.A.T., or even the fact that Night Trap is technically a vampire game by theme.

The plot, for what it's worth, is that you have to save a group of teens from getting kidnapped by the aforementioned dudes in rubber suits - called Augers, they are basically vampire drones.

From the time the girls being getting picked off, to the end of the game is all played in real time with roughly 30 minutes of playtime. That's right, Night Trap only lasts 30 minutes... and that's still 29 minutes too long for some people.

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