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Papers, Please (2013)
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Papers, Please is aptly summed up by its marketing tagline: "A dystopian document thriller". Everything that can go wrong will go wrong in this 'simulation' of being a border crossing agent in the clearly-Soviet-in-all-but-name Arstotzka.
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Morality and shades of gray are front in center in this puzzle game, but transparency of choice is not; what you do may make be ethical but its outcomes vary wildly in the face of a political system so obfuscated as to be completely labyrinthine. Papers, Please does more to simulate the atmosphere of Soviet politik than even a good read of Solzhenitsyn, but that isn't just why it's popular: it's also a darn strong puzzle game.
Relevant links!
- Document types in the game
- Caustic Soda, a podcast about gruesome or weird stuff by lovable Canadians
Relevant games!
- The Westport Incident by Double Zero One Zero (the newspaper version of Papers, Please
- The Tomorrow Children by Q-Games
- Calm Down, Stalin by Cartboard Games (no, not Cardboard Computer)
- This War of Mine by 11 bit studios
- Ekranoplans, by Russia Itself, GiantBomb'd here
- The entire Metro series by 4A
The theme this week is "Duck Wings Going Down in Smoke and Flames" by Duck Boy, a free album download from chipmusic.org off of his new album Unknown Command. Also from chipmusic, the WILL'S GAMING MINUTE(tm) theme is, fittingly, "Wienerhype" by jaar.
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