Papers, Please: A Game Review

Congratulations.

The Octobor labor lottery is complete. Your name was pulled.

For immediate placement, report to the Ministry of Admission

at Grestin Order Checkpoint.

An apartment will be provided for you and your family in East Grestin.

Expect a Class-8 dwelling.

Glory to Arstotzka.

Papers, Please is a game where you are put in the perspective of an inspector in a checkpoint. The goal of the game is to accept people into the checkpoint who have correct papers (no errors such as mismatching pictures, mismatching gender, and more) and deny people who have these mistakes. Later in the game, you have the option to detain people if they have these mistakes.

The game has a feel to it as if you were actually there, not in the way of virtual reality, but at the end of the day, your score depends on how many people you have accepted and denied. If you have made a mistake and accepted someone that was a criminal or something else, you would get a warning, another warning, and a penalty of 5, which gradually increases. You also have to pay for heating, rent, and food for your family and the penalties if acquired.

In some specific days the player plays on, the day is cut short by terrorist attacks, some are easily avoided by checking the weight of people. If the weight doesn't match with the specified weight, then it's a smuggler or a terrorist. If you do not have a specified weight, then this does not matter. 

When these terrorist attacks happen, the guards try and fight back. Later in the game, you have to shoot them with one of two weapons: a sniper rifle, and a tranquilizer. There is also 32 days, and 20 endings to achieve.

My review is that this game is kind of worth the $10, the price could of been around $5. The gameplay is repetitive however, but rewarding later in the game. The game can be quite challenging later in this game because of how many papers you have to check before approving. I'd recommend this game for people who have a good eye and can detect problems very quickly. I'd recommend this game to my friends.

I'd give this game a 8/10.

The Mega Reviewer, out.