Of course, you can also simply play as a loyal citizen and get Glory to Arstotzka badge, but I thought that would be too easy. In Papers, Please you’ve got to balance your actions to avoid execution and support your family, while still helping the guys from resistance.
Officers as well as other people might also ask you for favors (such as letting their loved ones in), but you’ve got to be careful, because each of your cover-ups will get you a citation and after a few of those you need to pay a penalty. Soon, you are approached by the members of resistance (called EZIC in the game) and you start helping them sabotage the regime. You work as an immigration inspector who checks documents at the border, stamps Approved or Denied marks and sometimes presses the Detain button. The regime resembles both Eastern Bloc and Orwell’s Oceania with their ministries often acting ridiculously and changing rules every other day. You and your family live in a totalitarian country called Arstotzka. Turned out there’s indeed something about this game that hooks you. But she was really excited by this title from Lucas Pope, so I decided to give it a try.
A game that involves looking through documents at the border checkpoint and searching for discrepancies? Sounds very much like real life paperwork - that is, incredibly boring. When a friend told me about Papers, Please, I was skeptical.
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