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Papers, Please is a puzzle simulation game developed and published by Lucas Pope through his production company 3909 LLC. Released on August 8, 2013, for PC via Steam, the game puts players in the role of a border inspector at the East Grestin checkpoint in the fictional, communist state of Arstotzka, freshly out of a six-year war with neighboring Kolechia. Reviewing travelers' passports and paperwork against an ever-growing list of rules, players decide who to admit and who to turn away or arrest, with each daily decision feeding into one of 20 possible endings across the game's 31-day story.
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Congratulations.
The October labor lottery is complete. Your name was pulled.
For immediate placement, report to the Ministry of Admission at Grestin Border Checkpoint.
An apartment will be provided for you and your family in East Grestin. Expect a Class-8 dwelling.
Glory to Arstotzka
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.
The October labor lottery is complete. Your name was pulled.
For immediate placement, report to the Ministry of Admission at Grestin Border Checkpoint.
An apartment will be provided for you and your family in East Grestin. Expect a Class-8 dwelling.
Glory to Arstotzka
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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About Papers, Please
Papers, Please is a puzzle simulation game developed and published independently by Lucas Pope through his production company 3909 LLC. Development spanned nine months across 2012 and 2013, beginning as a solo project first announced on the TIGSource forums before reaching Steam Greenlight in April 2013 and releasing on August 8, 2013, for Windows and macOS. Linux, iOS, PlayStation Vita, and Android ports followed in the years afterward.
Set in the fictional communist state of Arstotzka, the story opens just after a six-year war with neighboring Kolechia has ended, with Arstotzka reclaiming its half of the divided border town of Grestin. Players take on the role of an immigration inspector newly assigned to the East Grestin checkpoint, checking passports and supporting documents against a rulebook that expands almost daily, denying entry to those with improper paperwork, detaining those carrying falsified documents, and navigating an increasingly complex web of political and personal consequences tied to every decision made at the booth.
The core gameplay loop revolves entirely around document verification, using a growing set of tools and reference guides to cross-check names, dates, photographs, and stamps against official records. What starts simple grows steadily more layered as new rules, tools, and moral dilemmas are introduced across the game's 31 playable days, with the inspector's own family and finances directly tied to how well or poorly each shift goes. Twenty different endings are possible depending on the choices made throughout, with an Endless Mode unlockable after reaching one specific ending.
Papers, Please is widely cited as an example of video games functioning as a legitimate art form, frequently categorized as an "empathy game" for the way it puts players directly into morally complicated situations rather than simply telling them about them. The game won the BAFTA Games Award for Strategy and Simulation in 2014, and a Russian-produced live-action short film based on the game, authorized by Lucas Pope, was released in 2018. Papers, Please holds a Metacritic score of 85 and an Overwhelmingly Positive rating on Steam.
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System Requirements
Minimum
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS
- Windows XP or later
- Processor
- 1.5 GHz Core2Duo
- Memory
- 2 GB RAM
- Graphics
- OpenGL 1.4 or better
- Storage
- 100 MB available space
- Additional Notes
- Minimum 1280x720 screen resolution
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- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
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This key is available in multiple regions. Select your region at checkout to confirm availability for your country. If you are unsure whether your country is supported, check the activation details on the product page before completing your purchase.
The game has 20 different endings, determined by the decisions and interactions made throughout the 31 playable days of the story.
No. Papers, Please is a single-player-only game with no multiplayer or co-op component.
Endless Mode is an unlockable mode accessed by entering a specific code obtained after reaching one particular ending in the story. It removes the fixed narrative structure, letting players continue running the checkpoint indefinitely.
No. The game includes brief pixel-art violence and pixel-art nudity, alongside mature themes involving crime, smuggling, immigration, and border control, and is intended for a mature audience.