# Papers, Please **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [October 16, 2013, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/papers-please/671437 "2013-10-16T21:39:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2013, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/papers-please/671437/1 "2013-10-16T21:39:11Z")
Didn’t see a thread on this already. I picked this game up the other day when it went on sale (to the low low price of $6 from its usual price of $10), thinking I’d just play half an hour or so before bed, and wound up spending four hours on it. The graphics look like something from a 1990s-era Carmen Sandiego game, but the gameplay is surprisingly enjoyable. You play a border agent in Arztotska, some kind of Eastern European dictatorship or the like. As visitors and immigrants come through your checkpoint, you examine their papers for discrepancies. If everything is OK, you green-stamp them through. If not, you give them the red stamp and keep them out. Meanwhile, you have the option to accept bribes and other nefarious sources of income, which are important to keep your family warm and fed. It’s really a very simple game, but there’s quite a bit of storytelling in it, and I’ve been having a lot of fun with it and wanted to throw out a recommendation. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/papers-please/671437)._