

When a person enters your booth, they will present their passport, and you will have to click it and drag it to the larger area of the screen to inspect it. A huge line of people is waiting outside to pass through your checkpoint, but you have only a limited amount of time each day to process them one by one. You spend your in-game time in a border checkpoint. There's no need to go through an installation process, and you don't need to worry about any system requirements. It comes in a ZIP archive, and you only need to unpack it and launch it. A free Beta version is available, which you can play up to a certain point in the story, which is enough to see what the game has to offer. Papers, Please is available for purchase for Windows, Mac, Linux, as well as mobile platforms, like Apple's iPad or Sony's PlayStation Vita. It sounds simple on paper, but there's nothing simple about Eastern European-like bureaucracy, especially when you have a family to care for. Your role is to check people's passports, make sure everything is in order, and allow them to pass or deny them entry. It places you in the role of a customs office, in the fictional Republic of Arstotzka, a totalitarian state, which recently ended a war and reopened a border checkpoint. You can call this multi-award-winning indie game a customs officer simulator or, better yet, a bureaucracy simulator. For such purpose, we'll have to pay special attention to both the documentation and the explanations given to us by the people that come to our post.Ī game that, despite being set in 1982, is still fully in force.Papers, Please is one of those games that manages to impress not with graphics and special effects, but with the unique idea behind it. The game has different endings, up to twenty depending on the role we wish to take on: we can be a loyal servant to the communist dictatorship for which we work or we can try to cause its death from the inside. Our mission is to check the documents of the candidates to enter and decide who can come in and who can't, having to identify amongst them conspirers against the regime, terrorists, and all sorts of criminals trying to cross the border. That's the story behind Papers, Please, a dystopian adventure in which our task is to control the immigration trying to get into our country.

Now, as an immigration and customs officer, you'll have to decide who can and cannot enter Arstotska through the border in Grestin. After a long war waged for over 6 years, the Communist State of Arstotzka has defeated its neighboring Republic of Kolechia.
