And his gender - if that doesn't look like it matches up, it's time for a scan, which will show him or her naked. You need to check his name against the permit and work order, then his passport number against the permit, along with the expiry dates for all four against today's date. It is, in short, difficult.Ī couple of weeks in, if you manage to keep your job for that long, and indeed keep your family alive, things might go like this: Man arrives, offers his passport, entry permit, work pass and identity supplement. But as each day passes, the bureaucracy grows, the required observation and effort on your part increases, and the complexity of correctly scrutinising the papers of every entrant to the country becomes always more elaborate. You're paid per person processed, so speed is essential if you're going to be able to keep your extended family safe under your roof, with food, heat and medicine, and maybe even birthday presents. You play in days, each racing past at a terrifying rate. And yet remains an engrossing, creeping affair, almost rogue-like in its grip on you to last longer, work faster, abandon principles more freely, and compromise integrity with ever-more consummate ease. Its lofi graphics and static setting join its focus on mundanity and repetition under pressure to suggest something that sounds about as far away from "game" as you might imagine.
And secret underground operatives who woo you into their dangerous world of spies. Set in 1982, in the fictional Soviet-like nation of Arstotzka, this is a game of bureaucracy, cruelty and poverty. Which makes it kind of weird that it's so utterly compelling that I've overworked today by three hours so far, and don't seem to be stopping. You're a border guard, and your job is to either let or not let people through. Unless you're reading this in a country for which the dystopian themes of Papers Please's oppressive border controls and poverty-stricken workers are all too familiar, in which case please have some of my Western guilt. Papers, Please is a pretty effective way of having you take a look around yourself, and feel damned grateful for what you've got.
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