Papers, Please
Developer Lucas Pope
Papers, Please is a 2013 puzzle simulation video game by Lucas Pope, developed and published independently through his production company 3909 LLC. The game was released on August 8, 2013, for Microsoft Windows and OS X, for Linux on February 12, 2014, and for iOS on December 12, 2014. A port for the PlayStation Vita was announced in August 2014 and was then released on December 12, 2017. A port for Android,… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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60 of 100 · most liked firstHorror game today! Papers, Please but you're in a lighthouse and the eldritch horrors are lining up out the door to get inside! www.youtube.com/live/gqanjzX...
unlabelledView post →My man looks like his favorite game as a child was called "Papers, Please"
unlabelledView post →Everyone cites Undertale as the "kindness is hard mode" game, but Papers Please did it earlier.
unlabelledView post →War game in the style of Papers, Please You're a staff officer charged with wrangling NCOs, processing (possibly faulty) intelligence, and managing requisition requests for more ammunition (there is no 155mm in this sector, they gave us drones that don't work)
unlabelledView post →Evangelion game but its like Papers Please mixed with Dispatch and you're a random NERV lackey on da computa
unlabelledView post →Game developer Lucas Pope (@dukope.bsky.social) will receive this year’s GDCA Pioneer Award. The creator of IGF Award-winning games 'Papers Please' and 'Return of the Obra Dinn,' Lucas is a true pioneer in how he experiments with the interactions of mechanics, narrative, and art. #GDCA2025
unlabelledView post →HoloCon 1999 Release Trailer (A Papers Please Hololive Fan Game) Link: qeian-tea.itch.io/holocon huge thanks to qeiantea and byb for making this project a reality haha #HoloJam #inART #ぺこらーと #gawrt #graveyART
unlabelledView post →My pitch for a new Star Wars game for #MayThe4th: IBOSH. Imperial Bureau of Occupational Safety and Health. It's a very stream-friendly inspection game in the vein of Papers, Please or Quarantine Zone. You're going through checklists on unsafe imperial work environments, while dealing with /
unlabelledView post →Meanwhile, a game like Papers Please could only be experienced by playing it. Because you can't appreciate the story if you don't feel experience the gameplay yourself.
unlabelledView post →You will like our indie game if you like: - Papers Please🛂 - Severance🏢 - Pokémon Cards🎴 - Taskmaster💌 🎮Play the Demo: s.team/a/3940840 #indiedev #gamedev #indiegames #cozygames #steam
unlabelledView post →Who wants to make a PAPERS, PLEASE-style game about getting your child ready for each day of school, using the crumbs of information from the principal, the teacher, and the calendar, in their emails, PDF attachments, and assorted apps?
unlabelledView post →Chain Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah How To Blow Up A Pipeline (book and film) Come And See (film) Roadside Picnic by Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky Papers, Please! (video game) The Shape of Punk to Come by Refused (album)
unlabelledView post →The Mailroom is a cute little horror-comedy game about sorting mail Papers Please style for Mephisto. The experience is definitely elevated by the guy what delivers you the mail to sort. I love me a good Creepy Watson.
unlabelledView post →I really racked my brain and figured out the most appropriate game to stream today starting my first playthrough of PAPERS, PLEASE in an hour!
unlabelledView post →The creator of "Papers, Please" want developers to make weirder, more personal games www.theverge.com/games/651376... #gamedev #gamedevelopment #indiedev #gamedesign
unlabelledView post →#GameIdea: Papers Please but you're a board games "rules lawyer". Observe as some NPCs play board / card game and point out and correct it any time someone plays it wrong by referring to the game's rule book.
unlabelledView post →Game Idea: "Papers Please" but for vehicle inspection. New cars roll into the garage each day and it's your job to inspect and verify that all parts work as they should and everything is road-safe.
unlabelledView post →Lucas Pope (Return of the Obra Dinn, Papers, Please) has released Moida Mansion - a free Game & Watch style mystery game for Halloween, out now. (Read more: Thinky Games)
unlabelledView post →Papers, Please, Return of the Obra Dinn dev Lucas Pope won't talk about current game in case it "gets slurped up by AI" www.gamesindustry.biz/papers-pleas...
unlabelledView post →"Bear Talks Games: Haha Funny or Funny Peculiar?" There's a game I played two years ago, Lil' Guardsman, on the Switch. I'd caught the trailer and thought, "yeah, alright, Papers, Please as a comic fantasy. I've heard worse ideas for a game." Wounded up blocked by its director on twitter.
unlabelledView post →i was curious about the first indie game i ever played, so i checked my purchase history and found that i had bought Sword & Sworcery on the App Store in 2012, followed by Papers, Please and Hotline Miami on Steam in 2014. it’s the perfect starter set, and i’ve always loved all of them :)
unlabelledView post →Hard facts about #LilGuardsman - Single-player - Narrative driven - 100% fully voiced - 100+ characters - Fantasy + comedy + surprisingly heartwarming - Adventure game + Papers, Please-like mashup - No live service features - No microtransactions - Made by humans
unlabelledView post →Was trying to workshop the worst (or best) idea for a licensed anime game and came up with either Attack on Titan Papers Please or Interspecies Reviewers Warioware.
unlabelledView post →It's oddly satisfying to think how disappointed my PhD advisor would be if he knew that three of my most-cited journal articles are about (in descending order) zombies, vampires, and the game Papers, Please.
unlabelledView post →Hey #TeaseYaGame, you'll love our game if you like: - Papers Please🛂 - Severance🏢 - Pokémon Cards🎴 - Taskmaster💌 - Plarbo😍 🎮Play the Demo: s.team/a/3940840 #indiedev #gamedev #indiegames #cozygames #steam
unlabelledView post →Respectively, however, its writing and design owe a large debt to the Monkey Island series and Papers, Please; a fact that wasn't just promoted in the game's marketing but outright referenced in-game as a set of winking self-aware meta-gags.
unlabelledView post →You'll love our Indie Game if you love: - Pokémon Cards🎴 - Papers Please🛂 - Frog Fractions🐸 - Taskmaster💌 - Severance🏢 🎮Play the Demo: s.team/a/3940840 #IndieDev #GameDev #IndieGames #CozyGames #Steam #ScreenshotSaturday
unlabelledView post →There’s a video game called “Papers, Please” that’s legit about this kind of bureaucracy. It’s kind of nuts
unlabelledView post →What do you say to a survival horror game in the same style as "Papers, Please"? 🤔
unlabelledView post →While researching an article I came across this fantastic devlog of the localization of "Papers, Please". There really aren't many developers who are willing to share their experience localizing a game from their perspective. dukope.tumblr.com/post/8317728...
unlabelledView post →The most surface level Papers Please imagineable. There's a reason Papers Please didn't have a funny cheery tone like this store page and general vibe of the game give off. Also, "suddenly find yourself in 2206", "crushed by unexplained debt" is such a lazy premise. Why was this made?
unlabelledView post →In Papers Please, you have a family to feed. But in my game you have a pet wolf to take care of. Wishlist my game here - store.steampowered.com/app/3955230/... #indiegame #gamedev #screenshotsaturday
unlabelledView post →Papers, Please is 50% off on GOG. If you haven’t played it yet, now’s the time. Glory to Arstotzka. 🛂 af.gog.com/en/game/pape...
unlabelledView post →Someone could make a game in the stylistic tradition of Papers Please about trying to navigate the US healthcare system, the oppressive atmosphere would be spot on
unlabelledView post →I know what the shirt is, but my brainrot thought it was "Papers Please" game merchandise
unlabelledView post →6. Papers, Please is a serious game designed to create empathy for immigrants. Although immigrants say it feels true to their experiences, there's no evidence that it changes non-immigrants' empathy or attitudes toward immigration papersplea.se
unlabelledView post →💀🔵Spooky Sunday Double Feature🔵💀 🕔5pm CST / 6pm EST🕕 Its a Double Feature game night! "They Came for Blood" & "Symptoms of Infection" Both are Papers Please-Likes with Horror Twists! ▶️ www.twitch.tv/pankraru ◀️ #vtuber #vsky #horror #spooky #theycameforblood #symptomsofinfection
unlabelledView post →Papers, Please but it's just correctly identifying which people on your flight are game developers (easy)
unlabelledView post →also insanely tonedeaf weirdos who are like 'uuuuu Papers Please would be so fun but i need a cozy version the Dystopian Nightmare World That Is The Entire Point Of The Game is so uncozy vwv'
unlabelledView post →Cozy TSA simulator is tasteless but the bad part is bastardizing Papers Please which is game with actual things to say
unlabelledView post →I can't think of a greater moral rot in society than game devs looking at Papers, Please grim social satire... and thinking- "This needs a pastel makeover! That'll fix it."
unlabelledView post →outside of an RPG setting, Adventurer's Guild Steward would be an amazing Papers, Please style game
unlabelledView post →Papers, Please! I don't know if it counts as deeply obscure, but it shaped me. It was my first proper video game, and really spoke to me in its melancholy and shaped my personal perception of ideologies, morality and activism.
unlabelledView post →Lovely feature from @pocketgamercom.bsky.social about LG coming to iOS and Android this fall! Re: "the inspiration from Papers, Please, a grim and dystopian story of abuse of power, being translated into a cute and cosy game about, well, abuse of power is certainly an interesting angle"...
unlabelledView post →I've been playing Security 51 but won't have column space to write about it soon, so I'll just say that there's something abjectly horrifying about taking a game like Papers Please—a near-perfect blend of gameplay and theme—hollowing out every ounce of meaning, and leaving just mechanics behind.
unlabelledView post →I have the theme for the game "Papers Please." Playing in my head for some reason... Glory to Arstotzka.
unlabelledView post →The Communist regimes of the 20th century arguably inspired a little video game called "Papers, Please", IIRC.
unlabelledView post →I know im late to the party, but it is fascinating that he made this point useing the game, "Papers, Please" Neither he nor ICE deserve moral consideration. May they harm each other as much as humanly possible.
unlabelledView post →Like supporting indie studios? Loved Papers Please? Want to play a fully voice-acted puzzle game with a beautifully written branching story? You can do all three at once by buying Switchboard while it's on sale - less than £10! store.steampowered.com/app/3931650/... #indiegame #indiedev #steamsale
unlabelledView post →Anyone who recognizes Papers, Please as an appropriate game for this political moment deserves to win
unlabelledView post →Papers, Please is great game name
unlabelledView post →Papers, Please is an amazing game.
unlabelledView post →Papers Please is a game that’s done this well
unlabelledView post →Papers Please Cozy Game...
unlabelledView post →god I can already see myself being extremely normal about a game like this gonna scratch my organization itch like Papers, Please scratched my QA itch
unlabelledView post →makes me imagine a Papers Please kinda game, but you are the editor at a newspaper
unlabelledView post →Papers Please? Alright here is my Passport. May i be permitted to enter? This awesome YCH based on the fun game Papers Please made by TekBot0507 over on Twitter!
unlabelledView post →Papers Please style indie game but it's about allowing our blocking new followers on bluesky
unlabelledView post →New video of Shift At Midnight, the new co-op gas station horror game! It's like Papers Please meets The Closing Shift meets Supermarket Sim! Thank you to @guillotine.agency for the key! 🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4gB...
unlabelledView post →Untitled Goose Game Papers Please
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