Papers, Please

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About this game

A dystopian document thriller.
The award-winning, critically-acclaimed border inspector game.

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The communist state of Arstotzka has just ended a 6-year war with neighboring Kolechia and reclaimed its rightful half of the border town, Grestin.

Your job as immigration inspector is to control the flow of people entering the Arstotzkan side of Grestin from Kolechia. Among the throngs of immigrants and visitors looking for work are hidden smugglers, spies, and terrorists.

Using only the documents provided by travelers and the Ministry of Admission's primitive inspect, search, and fingerprint systems you must decide who can enter Arstotzka and who will be turned away or arrested.

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Warning

This game contains mature themes, non-photographic nudity, and brief moments of pixelated violence.

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Awards

◉ Best Game of 2013 - The New Yorker
◉ Best Game of 2013 - Wired Magazine
◉ Top Indie Game 2013 - Forbes Magazine
◉ Best Strategy & Simulation Game 2014 - BAFTA
◉ Grand Prize Winner 2014 - Independent Games Festival
◉ Excellence in Design Winner - IGF 2014
◉ Excellence in Narrative Winner - IGF 2014
◉ GameCity Prize Winner 2014 - GameCity
◉ Cultural Innovation Award 2013 - SXSW
◉ Best PC Game 2014 - LARA Game Awards
◉ Innovation Award - GDCA 2014
◉ Most Innovative 2014 - Games For Change
◉ Best Gameplay 2014 - Games For Change
◉ Best Game of 2013 - Ars Technica
◉ Best Game of 2013 - PC World
◉ Best PC Game of 2013 - Destructoid
◉ Best Story of 2013 - Destructoid
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Ratings and reviews

Good game, great atmosphere, engaging twists and turns in the plot and has replay value. It would be nice if Endless Mode had day breaks and household management like Story Mode does. Not sure why I have to disable vibration every time I start the game? The other options save without issue.. mildly annoying but the game is great overall.

Great game, and as good a mobile port as you could probably have, but ultimately I feel like the small space of a phone isn't as nice as a big screen. Going through the various documents you have is a bit clunky. In the desktop port, the player can organize as they see fit, but here we're forced into a certain organization that's intentionally slightly inconvenient. Gripes aside, it is still enjoyable and is great to pick up and play a few minutes anywhere.

One of my favourite PC games comes to Android mobile at last and the experience does not disappoint. All of the controls translate well to the mobile version; some have been adapted appropriately to touchscreen inputs, allowing smooth gameplay despite the compact screen viewing area (a challenge even at the original computer version's inception). Overall, still a very fun, engrossing, challenging, visually unique experience whose story is thought-provoking and full of heart. A true achievement.

What's new

Various small fixes.