Papers, Please

Great game when run in an environment which supports it, however the Mac version no longer works as it is complied for 32bit systems and support for such was dropped circa 2019.

extremely fun and complex game play, deep story under the skin and as a side note, it makes me feel like i'm in the George Orwell book 1984.

If checking immigration papers doesn't sound like fun, you're right. I give this game props for creativity for an unusual gamification, but checking papers really is a boring and as much like work as you would expect. I'm 100% for the retro graphics, but it interferes with the gameplay when you have to determine gender on a blob of pixels. Even if this game has an expansive plot line, if the basic game mechanic (matching text and pictures) isn't fun to you, the game won't be either.

This is one of those games that at first glance, looks about as fun as playing with a shoe. 6 hours later, you long for your homeland of Astroska. This game is addicting, intelligent, driving, and most importantly, insanely fun. And for 10 bucks, you rarely get something with so much replay-ability and character.

It is far more addictive than it has any right to be! Not much in the way of graphics or sound, and the gameplay is relatively simple, but regardless you will have trouble stopping once you get into it! Despite such a simple premise, the game is surprisingly immersive and the underlying 'story' has lots of subtle twists and from the simple Allow or Deny decision you ultimately make for each person will affect how things progress. Very well done and a nice change from the pretty but mindless junk shooters that seems to make up the bulk of games these days!