Sitting in the cramped border control office of a bureaucratic cold war state, an endless line of grim faces trudging by your armoured windows, may sound more like a concept for a dense Russian novel ...

While the premise of Papers, Please might sound a bit heavy, its minimalist approach to game design helps reduce its heavy subject matter, while also helping tell better player stories. The premise ...

Paperwork is never really "exciting." It's monotonous, it can be stressful, and it's rarely very rewarding. Compared to the power fantasies we often experience in games, Papers, Please strips you of ...

Mat Jones reviews the year’s best soviet bloc checkpoint sim. One of Papers, Please’s biggest successes is how it turns the deeply mundane into something exciting. It asks that you inhabit a very ...