Have you ever wanted to beat the bad guy, save a princess, stand up for the less fortunate? No?





What’s that you say? You’ve always wanted to stand in a cramped booth in balls-cold eastern Europe, ruin the lives of the poor and have your life threatened daily while your family starves to death? Then Papers, Please is for you!





You work as an immigration officer that approves or denies entry into the country of Arstotzka. People will give you their passport, permits, bribes, and tear-jerking sob stories and you have to decide who goes in and who gets turned away. Some people are truly evil. Sometimes you have to do some truly evil things just to keep your job. Every day you’ll struggle to make ends meet while your family is fighting to stay alive with the little money you bring home.



Why not just throw up all your middle fingers to the government and let everyone in? If you do that, your family dies. Not to say the government keeps them at gunpoint. No,no. You have an incredibly downtrodden life that you must work your ass off to maintain.

Possibly a first in a new “Fuck my life” genre.