Platforms
- PCAug 8, 20138.6playscore8.316 Critics9.537.4K Players
- AndroidAug 5, 2022NAplayscoreNA1 Critics9.43.50K Players
- iOSAug 5, 20229.0playscore9.18 Critics9.4934 Players
- PS VitaDec 12, 2017NAplayscoreNA0 Critics8.0187 Players
26 critic reviews · 23 community reviews across all platforms
Critic Reviews
- Papers, Please holds up as one of the best indie games ever made and a landmark accomplishment in narrative design.
Tim Rattray · Aug 03, 2024 Reviewed on PCRead full review - Papers, Please is a unique 2D simulation game in which we play as an immigration officer tasked with closely inspecting immigrants' passports and documents for any discrepancies.
Cian · Feb 23, 2023 Reviewed on iOSRead full review - Papers, Please holds up extremely well. I had a hard time sitting down and playing it for more than one shift day at a time, but that's just a testament to how well it still delivers its message.
Campbell Bird · Aug 29, 2022 Reviewed on iOSRead full review - Papers, Please may be a few years old now, but it’s still unlike anything you’ll have ever played. The title’s unique gameplay has been reworked nicely for the PS Vita, and while your workspace can feel claustrophobic on a 5-inch screen, that’s actually a big part of the game’s appeal. Its bleak setting won’t be for everyone, but by marrying moral quandaries to arcade-like gameplay, it offers something that will live in your memory long after you’ve filed your last piece of paperwork.
Sammy Barker · Dec 21, 2017 Reviewed on VitaRead full review - Papers, Please really shouldn’t work as well as it does, given it’s mostly a lot of busy work, but it’s gripping stuff. A plentiful supply of different endings, as well as an Endless Mode, means it’s great value for money, too.
Jennifer Allen · Dec 16, 2014 Reviewed on iOSRead full review - Papers, Please continues this years great line-up of PC ports to iOS. It has a great subtlety to it, and its message to players can be interpreted in so many different ways. Will you toe the line and deny everyone who does not have the proper paperwork for the sake of feeding your family, or will you take pity on the lost souls who are trying their best to simply survive and risk your job.
Brittany Vincent · Dec 16, 2014 Reviewed on iOSRead full review - Papers, Please may not be what you'd typically describe as a fun video game, but it's an incredibly clever experiment in storytelling that succeeds in what it sets out to do in ways you won't expect.
Eli Hodapp · Dec 15, 2014 Reviewed on iOSRead full review - All in all Papers, Please has surprising depth and is definitely worth your time. For a game that looks and feels oppressive it has a way of drawing you in, its unique approach and art style is its saving grace, the bland style and SNES era graphics apply well to the feeling of old fashioned oppression. It’s a game that will frustrate you, but will challenge you like you haven’t been challenged in a while. At its cheap Steam price you should pick it up as soon as you can.
Daniel Bowes · Dec 04, 2013 Reviewed onRead full review - Papers, Please is not trying to be a relaxing experience at all. From the beginning, when the game’s powerful —yet menacing, title score starts playing, it is clear that Papers, Please, much like the dystopian government of Arstotzka, has an agenda. Players will learn what it feels like to be a small piece to a mighty, controlling political machine. A machine that rumbles on to glory, at whatever the cost may be.
Tom Christiansen · Aug 27, 2013 Reviewed on PCRead full review - Papers, Please will stress you out. At times it may even make you hate yourself. And while it's weird to call such an experience "enjoyable," the gameplay itself is not a miserable time. It's worthwhile for the same reasons a depressing novel or a bleak movie can be worthwhile. There are lessons to be learned from Papers, Please, if only to remind ourselves how much worse off we could be
Britton Peele · Aug 14, 2013 Reviewed on PCRead full review
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About the game
Trailers & Screenshots:
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. In the dystopian document thriller Papers, Please, your job as an 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 MoA's primitive computer dispatch system you must decide who can enter Arstotzka and who will be turned away or arrested.
Developer: Lucas Pope