12 Games Like Papers Please

Our list of games like Papers, Please features other thought provoking games where players will be completing real world tasks as part of the core mechanics.

Papers, Please is a highly praised and unique indie game that follows the emotional toll that war and ever changing regulations have on an immigration officer in the dystopian country of Arstotzka. The primary mechanic of the game revolves around players inspecting the required documents for entry and then deciding if the documents presented are legitimate or fake. Each day new complexity is added to your daily routine, adding new rules to entry requirements, defending yourself from attackers, defusing bombs and more.

For players that aren’t diligent they’ll find the government levy penalties against them which directly impacts on the livelihood of their family and may result in their death if players cannot bring home enough money each day. To earn extra money players are often faced with moral dilemmas of breaking the rules or helping the resistance movement which all have their own varied outcomes. These outcomes end in one of twenty possible endings and have a direct link to player actions (or inaction).

The games like Papers, Please found below offer a similar experience to that described above. From multiple endings, direct consequences for your actions, dystopian societies, constantly evolving mechanics, cross referencing of information or realistic tasks as a primary game mechanic our list of titles has it all.