10 Best Video Games Set In A Single Night

4. Inside

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Playdead

Much like Limbo before it, Playdead's 2016 game Inside is a dark, spooky, atmospheric adventure. Unlike Limbo there are actually colors in this one - which if you've seen the gross ball of human flesh in the end stages of the game, you might wish it didn't.

Inside opens, surprisingly, on the outside - with the unnamed main character sliding down a hill and running from flashlight armed guards searching for him. A major aspect of the opening stages of the game is that it is night time, presumably your only chance to escape.

By the time our underage, unnamed fellow joins the disgusting mass of bodies, called the Huddle, he has traveled through much of a farm, a scientific facility, and a flooded, underwater city. But as the Huddle comes to rest, completing its absorption of the poor boy and escaping the facility, the sun has just risen, bathing the coast - and the Huddle - in the light of morning as the end credits begin to roll.

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