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AdventureIndieSimulationPoint & ClickPixel GraphicsSingleplayerDystopian

Papers, Please

Congratulations. The October labor lottery is complete. Your name was pulled. For immediate placement, report to the Ministry of Admission at Grestin Border Checkpoint. An apartment will be provided for you and your family in East Grestin. Expect a Class-8 dwelling.

Developer
Lucas Pope
Publisher
3909
Franchise
—
Release date
Aug 8, 2013
Store page updated
Mar 8, 2023
Price
$9.99 · Steam store ↗

Review Analysis Score

92.4/ 100

Based on 369 reviews from the past 1 year

Steam User Rating
Recent 😄 Very Positive 97% of 418
All time 🤩 Overwhelmingly Positive 97% of 80,534
“genuinely fun and engaging gameplay experience”

How it holds up

−50+5
Gameplay
+2.66
Strategy +4.21
“requires strategic analysis and simulation of complex situations” (18)

🔒 5 more indicators

Story & World
+3.95
Story +4.15
“moral choices create real tension and multiple endings” (70)

🔒 2 more indicators

Content Volume
+1.75
Replayability +3.88
“every run different, no run exactly the same, reinstall every few years” (16)

🔒 2 more indicators

Visuals & Sound
+3.35
Visuals +2.84

🔒 1 more indicators

Multiplayer
+3.00

Not enough data — only 0% of reviews mention this.

Playing together +3.00

🔒 1 more indicators

Fairness
+1.88

Not enough data — only 2% of reviews mention this.

Monetization +1.88

🔒 3 more indicators

Tech & Ops
+0.56

Not enough data — only 4% of reviews mention this.

Stability +1.67

🔒 3 more indicators

Scores are the average of reviews that mention each category (−5 to +5). Fainter bars were mentioned by fewer reviews; grey means too few to trust. Tap a category ▾ to see what drives it.

Steam review activity

% positive over time
since launch, by month · major update
90%92%94%96%98%100%
Aug 2013Sep 2026
Reviews
per day · 411 reviews, peak 26/day
02550
Aug 19Sep 16

Steam only gives daily counts for the last 30 days; longer ranges are by month. Months with fewer than 10 reviews are left out of % positive. "Show updates" marks major updates and DLC the developer posted on Steam (since about 2020) — hover a column to see % positive the month before and after.

Review languages

Languages of the 366 reviews we analyzed from the past year — not all Steam reviews.

  • English39%
  • Russian15%
  • Spanish11%
  • Portuguese11%
  • Chinese8%
  • Turkish5%
  • Other13%

🔒 Scores broken down by language — how Russian or Chinese players rate each category — are in the paid dashboard.

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