As that happens, your decisions start to become far more difficult as a moral component starts to come into play. You need to deny people access who don’t have the right documentation, while allowing those that do through the gates.Īt first this is straightforward enough, but then some terrorist event start up, and the requirements for entry become increasingly more stringent. Your task is simple make sure the only people that can enter the country are those with their correct documents in place – their passports must be valid, their visa information must match the passport, and of course they must look like their passport photo. At least, it’s a utopia according to the propaganda that you’re exposed to – you never actually see your homeland beyond your customs booth. You play as an unnamed customs officer, warding the militarised gates standing between the rabble of the outside world and your fictitious utopia homeland. If ever there was proof that “fun” is no longer a criteria in producing an interactive work of art that we like to call “games,” then this one is it.
It is a brutal, depressing, and frank deconstruction of so many of the social structures that we try and tell ourselves don’t exist in the world.īut it’s a game that you absolutely should play, because it’s brilliant. It’s most certainly not the kind of game that you should be playing to set yourself in the mood for the season. The theoretical maximum of 5 documents occurs on day 26 as the following combination: passport + entry permit + identity supplement + work pass + certificate of vaccination.Papers, Please is not the kind of game that would ever feature in a Christmas countdown. It is only until very late in the game that Vaccination Certificates and the complex Access Permit are required. Identity supplement, Access Permit, or Identity cardĭuring the early game, each entrant will have no more than 3 documents (passport and foreign visa documentation or ID card, and possibly a work pass, for example).There are three main classification groups of document: Near the end of the game, two of the documents are consolidated into one, making the process of checking them simpler. This increases the complexity of checking between them for discrepancies. As the game progresses, gradually more documents are added according to immigration protocol, each containing more features or fields of information. The checking and handling of documents occurs on every day and is the core mechanic of the game.ĭocuments must be crosschecked to ensure the information on each one of them is consistent and valid, or if an apparent discrepancy is discovered that evidence is found that either proves that the discrepancy does not exist, that the document with the discrepancy is erroneous due to matching fingerprints which override the erroneous information, or the discrepancy is corrected. For other papers and things, see items and the listed subcategories.ĭocuments in Papers, Please, are the papers that contain information that identifies and verifies an entrant's ability to enter Arstotzka, allowing the inspector to grant them an entry stamp.
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