

While not The Walking Dead by any means, the game certainly forces you to choose between heavy options. Accidentally accept a bribe and can’t explain it? Another ending. Will you make enough money to pay for tomorrow’s rent? If not, theres an ending. The game has 21 different endings based off of how you choose to play. Papers, Please certainly puts a weird spin on the story of an, otherwise, basic premise.

All the while, you try to make enough money to pay for rent, keep your child healthy, and pay for heating–while never interacting with them, you truly feel a connection to keeping the family healthy and happy. This isn’t done through heroic efforts of battle, but instead, through the mindless red tape and paperwork of a border control agent. Taking control of the East Greslin, you are given the task of protecting the fictional soviet Arstotzka. Papers, Please by Lucas Pope seeks to recreate the strife of the day-to-day comrades of a soviet system. Have you ever wondered what it felt like to live in Soviet Russia during the good ol’ days of the Cold War? Well good news! Now you can simulate the Khrushchev years without the KGB or bread lines.
