Papers, Please

Papers, Please is a deceptive game in more than one way: it seems dated - especially the graphics -, but being set in the early eighties, the simple graphics really fit! Also, it seems extremely simple... And it is, VERY simple to screw up! I can recommend this game to people who like to test and/or train their perception and attention for detail. The only thing that hardly seems to make sense, is the fact that endless play (the perfect mode to train oneself in) is locked until you've completed the story mode. Fortunately, it's not hard to find the code that unlocks it. Anyway: I'm glad that I spent a few euros to get this marvelous game.

A perfect blend of intuitive storyline, complex gameplay based on simplistic design and right amount of satire, fun and tragedy. God! Why there are not more games like this Check out my game play:https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL30nc4UZkTZqJfKzV0Qitm8yIhDaObg66

Got my wrist and finger hurt as I took my job as the immigration inspector so obsessively. A dark setting that gives you some perspective on the issue of illegal border crossing. Enjoyable nevertheless.

This game was a giant step in this day and age, most games today are so focused on wars or killings, not creative or challenging at all. But still, after playing this game for several days and becoming a genius at it, you still end up missing things and getting citations, giving you more to improve on. Your thought has to expand and your eyes with it, a deeply motivated game! The graphics aren't the prettiest but that adds to the charm, I heard one person make complaints that they cant differ between the faces or the picture, the graphics are made to where that's hardly even possible unless your eye sight is bad. I highly recommend this game if you want something new and dark. It also does a good job at recapturing a stalinist, communist-fascist country; I myself am a communist, a leninist/marxist in fact and I do not take offense to the portrayal of the country or its governments. One reason I did not give it 5 stars was, it needs more content. I played to unlock endless mode, afterwards I got bored, I could go back and unlock the other multiple endings but I don't feel motivated to.

This is an example of people WANTING to love an indie game just because it is different. Different does not equal GOOD. It just means different. This game is different. No doubt about it. You sit and sort through passports, ID Cards, Work permits etc... ad nauseam. There is a story there... but it is a sliver of a story. Basically - try to get your family out by earning enough money. Other small plots show up, but they are basically 1 offs. A thank you for saving me is it. A good choice for a spy mission... Nothing else to look at... nothing else to do. Merely stamping passports. Graphics are horrible. But then, the game does not need them, or pretend to have them. The story could have saved this. If they would hold a couple of story lines through the game, it would keep you engaged. But alas, they show up, and roll out. Never following up a plot. If you still want to try the game... please watch a review online. Any review will show you the nuts and bolts. You look, you compare, and you stamp. That is it. There is zero story. There is zero entertainment... Yuk.