''Papers, Please'' is a
puzzle
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simulation
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video game
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created by
indie game developer Lucas Pope
Lucas Pope (born ) is an American video game designer. He is best known for experimental indie games, notably ''Papers, Please'' and ''Return of the Obra Dinn'', both of which won the Seumas McNally Grand Prize alongside other awards. Pope curren ...
, developed and published through his production company, 3909 LLC. The game was released on August 8, 2013, for
Microsoft Windows and
OS X
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, for
Linux
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on February 12, 2014, and for
iOS
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on December 12, 2014. A port for the
PlayStation Vita
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was announced in August 2014 and was then released on December 12, 2017. A new port for iOS as well as for
Android was released in August 2022.
In ''Papers, Please'', the player takes on the role of a border-crossing
immigration officer
An immigration officer is a law enforcement official whose job is to ensure that immigration legislation is enforced. This can cover the rules of entry for visa applicants, foreign nationals or those seeking asylum at the border, detecting a ...
in the fictional
dystopia
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n
Eastern Bloc
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–like country of Arstotzka, which has been and continues to be at political hostilities with its neighboring countries. The player must review travelers' passports and other supporting paperwork against an ever-growing list of rules using a number of tools and guides. Tasks include allowing in those with the proper paperwork while rejecting those without all proper documents, detaining those with falsified information, and balancing personal finances.
''Papers, Please'' was positively received on its release, and it has come to be seen as an example of an
empathy game
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and a demonstration of
video games as an art form
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. The game was recognized as
one of the greatest video games ever made along with various awards and nominations from the
Independent Games Festival
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,
Game Developers Choice Awards
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Introduced in 2001, the Game Developers Choice Awards were preceded by the Spotlight Awards, which were ...
, and
BAFTA Video Games Awards, and was named by ''
Wired
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'' and ''
The New Yorker
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'' as one of the top games of 2013. By its tenth anniversary, ''Papers, Please'' had sold more than five million copies.
Gameplay
The gameplay of ''Papers, Please'' focuses on the work life of an immigration inspector at a
border checkpoint
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for the fictional country of ''Arstotzka'' in the year 1982.
At the time frame of the game, Arstotzka has recently ended a six-year-long war with the neighboring country of Kolechia, yet political tensions between them and other nearby countries remain high.
As a checkpoint inspector, the player is tasked with reviewing the documents of arrivals — allowing legitimate travelers through the border, denying entry to individuals with insufficient or expired documents, and arresting suspected criminals, terrorists, and entrants with forged or stolen documents. For each in-game day, the player is given specific rules on what documentation is required and conditions to allow entry, which become progressively more difficult over time. One by one, immigrants arrive at the checkpoint and provide their paperwork, which must be reviewed against the scheduled rules. If discrepancies are discovered, the player may interrogate the applicant, demand missing documents, compare the applicant's fingerprints against identity records, and order full body scans. If incriminating evidence is discovered, the player may order the entrant arrested. The player ultimately must stamp the entrant's passport to accept or deny entry, or order an arrest. If the player has violated protocol, a citation will be issued to the player shortly after the entrant leaves. The player has a limited amount of real-time, representing a full day shift at the checkpoint, to process as many arrivals as possible.
At the end of each in-game day, the player earns money based on how many people have been processed (and bribes collected), lowered by citation penalties for protocol violations, and then must decide on a simple budget to spend that money on rent, food, heat and other necessities in low-class housing for their family. Accepting bribes risks being discovered and imprisoned by the government. As relations between Arstotzka and nearby countries deteriorate, sometimes due to terrorist attacks, new rules are added such as denying entry to citizens of specific countries or demanding new types of documentation. The player may be challenged with moral dilemmas as the game progresses, such as allowing the supposed spouse of an immigrant through despite lacking complete papers at the risk of accepting a terrorist into the country. The game uses a mix of scripted encounters interspersed between randomly generated entrants.
Over the course of the game, the player encounters members of an organization called EZIC which plots a
coup d'état
A coup d'état (; French for 'stroke of state'), also known as a coup or overthrow, is a seizure and removal of a government and its powers. Typically, it is an illegal seizure of power by a political faction, politician, cult, rebel group, ...
against the Arstotzkan government. Decisions made to grant or deny entry to EZIC agents has consequences on the ending of the game. The player can also choose to escape to a neighbouring country, Obristan, to start a new life, with or without their family. The game has a scripted story mode with twenty
possible endings depending on the player's actions, as well as some
unlockable randomized endless-play modes.
Development

''Papers, Please'' was developed by Lucas Pope, a former developer for
Naughty Dog
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on the
''Uncharted'' series.
Pope opted to leave Naughty Dog around 2010, after ''
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves'' was released, to move to
Saitama, Japan
is the capital and the most populous city of Saitama Prefecture, Japan. Its area incorporates the former cities of Urawa, Ōmiya, Yono and Iwatsuki. It is a city designated by government ordinance. Being in the Greater Tokyo Area and lyin ...
, along with his wife Keiko, a game designer herself. Part of this move was to be closer to her family, but Pope also had been developing smaller games along with Keiko during his time at Naughty Dog and wanted to move away from "the definite formula" of the ''Uncharted'' series toward developing more exploratory ideas for his own games.
The two worked on a few independent game titles while there, and they briefly relocated to Singapore to help another friend with their game.
From his travels in Asia and some return trips to the United States, he became interested in the work of immigration and passport inspectors: "They have a specific thing they're doing and they're just doing it over and over again."
He recognized the passport checking experience, which he considered "tense", could be made into a fun game.
While he had been able to come up with the mechanics of the passport checking, Pope lacked a story to drive the game. He was then inspired by films like ''
Argo'' and the ''
Bourne'' series, which feature characters attempting to infiltrate into or out of other countries with subterfuge. Pope saw the opportunity to reverse those scenarios, putting the player in the role of the immigration officer to stop these types of agents, matching up with his existing gameplay mechanics.
He crafted the fictional nation of Arstotzka, fashioned as a
totalitarian
Totalitarianism is a form of government and a political system that prohibits all opposition parties, outlaws individual and group opposition to the state and its claims, and exercises an extremely high if not complete degree of control and regul ...
, 1982
Eastern Bloc
The Eastern Bloc, also known as the Communist Bloc and the Soviet Bloc, was the group of socialist states of Central and Eastern Europe, East Asia, Southeast Asia, Africa, and Latin America under the influence of the Soviet Union that existed du ...
state, with the player guided to uphold the glory of this country by rigorously checking passports and defeating those that might infiltrate it.
Arstotzka was partially derived from the setting of Pope's earlier game ''
The Republia Times'', where the player acts as editor-in-chief of a newspaper in a totalitarian state and must decide on which stories to include or falsify to uphold the interests of the state.
Pope also based aspects of the border crossing for Arstotzka and its neighbors on the
Berlin Wall and issues between
East
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Etymology
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and
West Germany
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, stating he was "naturally attracted to
Orwellian
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communist bureaucracy".
He made sure to avoid including any specific references to these inspirations, such as avoiding the word "comrade" in both the English and translated versions, as it would directly allude to a Soviet Russia implication.
Using a fictional country gave Pope more freedom in the narrative, not having to base events in the game on any real-world politics and avoiding preconceived assumptions.
Work on the game began in November 2012; Pope used his personal financial reserves from his time at Naughty Dog for what he thought would be a few weeks worth of effort to complete and then move onto a more commercially viable title.
Pope used the
Haxe
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programming language and the
NME framework, both
open-source
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.
He was able to build up structures he and his wife developed for ''Helsing's Fire'', an
iOS
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game they developed after moving to Japan, as this provided the means to set how much information about a character could or could not be shown to the player. This also enabled him to include random and semi-random encounters, in which similar events would occur in separate games, but the immigrant's name or details would be different.
Much of the game's design was about the purposely-"clunky" user interface elements of checking paperwork, something that Pope was inspired by from his earlier programming experiences from using visual programming languages like
HyperCard
HyperCard is a software application and development kit for Apple Macintosh and Apple IIGS computers. It is among the first successful hypermedia systems predating the World Wide Web.
HyperCard combines a flat-file database with a graphical, ...
.
Pope found that there was a very careful balance of what rules and randomness could be introduced without overwhelming the player or causing the balance of the game to falter, and cut back on some of the randomness he initially wanted.
Pope attempted to keep the narrative non-judgemental about the choices the player made, allowing them to imagine their own take on the events, and further kept elements like the player character's family status screen shown at the end of each day simple so that it would not affect the player's take on these results.
As Pope developed the game, he regularly posted updates to the independent development forum
TIGSource, and got helpful feedback on some of the game's direction.
He also created a publicly available demonstration of the game, which gave him additional positive feedback. Pope opted to try to have the game submitted to the
Steam
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storefront through the user-voted Greenlight process in April 2013; he was hesitant that the niche nature of the game would put off potential voters and had expected that he would gain more interest from upcoming gaming expositions. However, due to attention drawn by several
YouTube
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streamers that played through the demo, ''Papers, Please'' was voted through Greenlight within days.
With new attention to the project, Pope estimated that the game would now take six months to complete, though it ultimately took nine months.
One area he expanded on was to create several unique character names for the various citizens that would pass through the game. He opened up to the public to supply names, but ended up with over 30,000 entries, with more than half he considered unusable as they did not figure out the types of Eastern European names he wanted or were otherwise "joke names".
After the Greenlight process, Pope started to add other features that required the player, as a lowly checkpoint worker, to make significant moral decisions within the game. One such design was the inclusion of the body scanner, where Pope envisioned that the player would recognize this being an invasion of privacy but necessary to detect a suicide bomber.
These also helped to drive the game's narrative to provide a rationale for why the player as the passport checker would need to have access to these new tools in response to the larger events in the game's fiction.
After being successfully voted on Greenlight, ''Papers, Please'' was being touted as an "empathy game", similar to ''
Cart Life'' (2011), helping Pope to justify his narrative choices.
Pope also recognized that not all players would necessarily appreciate the narrative aspects, and started to develop the "endless" mode where players would simply need to process a queue of immigrants limited only by the player making a certain number of mistakes.
Pope released the game on August 8, 2013, for Windows and OS X systems,
and for Linux machines on February 12, 2014.
Pope had ported the game to the
iPad
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, and was considering a port to the
PlayStation Vita
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though noted that with the handheld, there are several challenges related to the game's user interface that may have to be revamped. The Vita version was formally announced at the 2014
Gamescom
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convention in August 2014. With the iOS release,
Apple required Pope to censor the full body scanner feature from the game, considering the aspect to be pornographic content. However Apple later commented that the rejection was due to a "misunderstanding" and allowed Pope to resubmit the uncensored game by including a "nudity option". The iPad version was subsequently released on December 12, 2014. The Vita's version was released on December 12, 2017.
By March 2014, Pope stated that he was "kind of sick to death" of ''Papers, Please'', in that he wanted to continue to focus on smaller games that would only take a few months of time to create and release, and had already spent far too much in his mind on this one. He expected to keep supporting ''Papers, Please'' and its ports, but had no plans to expand the game or release
downloadable content
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, but does not rule out revisiting the Arstotzka setting again in a future game.
An updated
iOS
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release and a new
Android port were released on August 5, 2022. The iOS version was free for those that already own the iPad version. Both versions were redesigned by developers to make the game playable on smaller screens without having to zoom, for example.
On the game's tenth anniversary, Pope released a free browser-based
demake
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of ''Papers, Please'', appearing to emulate the game on an LCD handheld console.
Reception
''Papers, Please'' received positive reviews on release, receiving "generally favorable reviews" from 40 reviews on
Metacritic
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.
''Papers, Please'' has been praised for the sense of
immersion provided by the game mechanics, and the intense emotional reaction.
CBC News
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' Jonathan Ore called ''Papers, Please'' a "nerve-racking sleuthing game with relentless pacing and dozens of compelling characters – all from a desk job". Simon Parkin writing for ''
The New Yorker
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'' blog declared ''Papers, Please'' the top video game of 2013. He wrote: "Grim yet affecting, it’s a game that may change your attitude the next time you’re in line at the airport."
Some critics received the story very well:
Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw
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of ''
The Escapist''s series ''
Zero Punctuation
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'' lauded the game for being a truly unique entry for 2013 and even made it one of his top five games for that year; he cited the game's morality as his reasoning by explaining that "
'Papers, Please''presents us constant moral choices, but makes it really hard to be a good person... while you could waive the rules to reunite a couple
..you do it at the expense of your own family... You have to decide if you want to create a better world or just look after you and yours."
''
Wired
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'' listed ''Papers, Please'' as their top game for 2013, recognizing that the game's title, often coupled with the Hollywood representation of
Nazi
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officials stopping people and demanding to see their identification, alongside the drab presentation captured the ideas of living as a lowly worker in a
police state
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. In 2019, the game was ranked 45th on ''
The Guardian
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Newspapers can cover a wide ...
'' newspaper's The 50 Best Video Games of the 21st Century list.
Some critics reacted against the paperwork gameplay.
Stephanie Bendixsen
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from the
ABC
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ABC or abc may also refer to:
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's game review show ''
Good Game'' found the game "tedious", commenting "while I found the issues that arose from the decisions you are forced to make quite interesting, I was just so bored that I just struggled to go from one day to the next. I was torn between wanting to find out more, and just wanting it all to stop."
''Papers, Please'' is considered by several journalists as an example of
video games as an art form
The concept of video games as a form of art is a commonly debated topic within the entertainment industry. Though video games have been afforded legal protection as creative works by the Supreme Court of the United States, the philosophical pr ...
. ''Papers, Please'' is frequently categorized as an "empathy game", a type of role-playing game that "asks players to inhabit their character's emotional worlds", as described by Patrick Begley of the ''
Sydney Morning Herald'', or as described by Pope himself, "other people simulators". Pope noted that he had not set out to make an empathy game, but the emotional ties created by his scenarios came about naturally from developing the core mechanics.
Awards
''Papers, Please'' won the
Seumas McNally Grand Prize
The Seumas McNally Grand Prize is the main award given at the Independent Games Festival (IGF), an annual event that takes place during the Game Developers Conference, one of the largest gatherings of the indie video game industry. The award is na ...
, "Excellence in Narrative", and "Excellence in Design" awards at the 2014
Independent Games Festival
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Awards and was nominated for the Nuovo Award. The title also won the "Innovation Award" and "Best Downloadable Game" at the 2014
Game Developers Choice Awards
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Introduced in 2001, the Game Developers Choice Awards were preceded by the Spotlight Awards, which were ...
. The game won "Best Simulation Game" and was nominated in the categories of "Best Game", "Game Design", and "Game Innovation" at the 2014
BAFTA Video Games Awards. ''Papers, Please'' also won an Interactive Narrative and Game + Play Peabody Award in 2021.
Sales
As of March 2014, at the time of the BAFTA awards, Pope stated that the game had sold 500,000 copies.
By August 2016, three years from release, Pope stated that more than 1.8 million copies had been sold across all platforms. By its tenth anniversary, the game had sold 5 million units.
Short film adaptation
Two Russian filmmakers, Liliya Tkach and Nikita Ordynskiy of Kinodom Productions, developed an 11-minute live-action film based on ''Papers, Please'', entitled ''Papers, Please: The Short Film'', starring
Igor Savochkin
Igor Yurievich Savochkin (russian: Игорь Юрьевич Савочкин; 14 May 1963 – 17 November 2021) was a Russian theater and film actor.
He died in Moscow on 17 November 2021, at the age of 58 due to liver disease.
Filmography Fi ...
as the passport inspector. The film was authorized by Lucas Pope after Ordynskiy sent him the screenplay via email.
The film premiered at the Trekhgorka House of Culture in Moscow, Russia, on January 27, 2018. The film debuted worldwide via
YouTube
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and the
Steam
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storefront on February 24, 2018. The film received "Overwhelmingly Positive" reviews on Steam upon its release.
The short film's success led Tkach and Ordynskiy to pursue a similar short film for ''
Beholder'', another game set in a totalitarian state. Ordynskiy would later voice Seaman Aleksei Toporov in ''
Return of the Obra Dinn
''Return of the Obra Dinn'' is an adventure and puzzle video game created by American video game designer Lucas Pope, and published by Japanese studio 3909. It was his second commercial game, following 2013's ''Papers, Please'', and was release ...
'', a 2018 video game developed by Pope, which was also a Seumas McNally Grand Prize winner.
See also
* ''
The Republia Times''
* ''
The Westport Independent
''The Westport Independent'' is a simulation video game developed by Double Zero One Zero and published by Coffee Stain Studios. The game was released digitally for Android, iOS, Linux, Microsoft Windows, and OS X on 21 January 2016.
Gameplay ...
''
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