Papers, Please

3909 · 4.7 ★ · A$7.99

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Description

A dystopian document thriller.
The award-winning, critically-acclaimed border inspector game.

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"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."
"Glory to Arstotzka."

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Awards

◉ Best Game of 2013 - The New Yorker
◉ Best Game of 2013 - Wired Magazine
◉ Top Indie Game 2013 - Forbes Magazine
◉ Best Strategy & Simulation Game 2014 - BAFTA
◉ Grand Prize Winner 2014 - Independent Games Festival
◉ Excellence in Design Winner - IGF 2014
◉ Excellence in Narrative Winner - IGF 2014
◉ GameCity Prize Winner 2014 - GameCity
◉ Cultural Innovation Award 2013 - SXSW
◉ Best PC Game 2014 - LARA Game Awards
◉ Innovation Award - GDCA 2014
◉ Most Innovative 2014 - Games For Change
◉ Best Gameplay 2014 - Games For Change
◉ Best Game of 2013 - Ars Technica
◉ Best Game of 2013 - PC World
◉ Best PC Game of 2013 - Destructoid
◉ Best Story of 2013 - Destructoid
... and more

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Story

The communist state of Arstotzka has just ended a 6-year war with neighboring Kolechia and reclaimed its rightful half of the border town, Grestin.

Your job as immigration inspector is to control the flow of people entering the Arstotzkan side of Grestin from Kolechia. Among the throngs of immigrants and visitors looking for work are hidden smugglers, spies, and terrorists.

Using only the documents provided by travelers and the Ministry of Admission's primitive inspect, search, and fingerprint systems you must decide who can enter Arstotzka and who will be turned away or arrested.

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Features

Includes the complete original game with all 31 days and 20 endings. Also adds unlockable multitouch support for faster paperwork, an enhanced inspection mode, Game Center achievements, leaderboards, mid-day resume, and more.

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Warning

This game contains mature themes, non-photographic nudity, and brief moments of pixelated violence.

Developer

3909

Developer ID: 541419307

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What's New

Version 1.4.12 · 17 July 2023

Various small fixes

Ratings & Reviews

App Store

4.7

158 ratings

N/A downloads

Google Play

4.7

5,514 ratings

100,000+ downloads

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83%

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Recent Reviews

Jameson Wright

Google Play

as much as I want to like this game I think it's not for me to casual. giving it three stars because I like the pixel art I respect that part about it and the realism of the story.

30 Apr 2026

Emine Sıla Şimşek

Google Play

tabletten oynandığında kırmızı buton gözükmüyor navigasyon işaretlerini ve taskbarları değiştirmeniz gerekiyor onun dışında iyi

27 Apr 2026

Kieran Duffy

Google Play

Incredibly effective game.

18 Apr 2026

Marley

Google Play

I don't normally write reviews ever, but I felt like this game really did deserve it. I've played cloverpit and the frame rate was really iffy, but with this games not a single issue. at first I thought the game would be best in landscape but being in portrait mode was a great decision on their part. I'm seen a massive change in tech and I'm very excited with pc games coming to android. definitely worth the price I like art style the game mechanics and the strategy and story behind the game.

17 Apr 2026

N V

Google Play

A Gem, Well written, moves from the inert sensible seeming rules of state to the visceral horror of a totalitarian state collapsing on itself with disappearances attacks, threats and the desperate hope to find a way out of the system. You may have to break a few of your rules to find the freedom you crave but that's what that system is, a destruction of everything, moral and noble... it leaves you with the understanding of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights what it protects us from.

13 Apr 2026

AngryReviewer9282

App Store

Trash game, here’s why..

[THIS REVIEW HAS BEEN REMOVED BY THE ASRTOTZKIAN GOVERMENT] Glory to Astrotzka.

6 Nov 2024

Cookingshownihaluuu

App Store

Scam

I didn’t see that because of money and it’s so trash and scam

27 Sept 2024

ProGamer_Not

App Store

Very good game but just one thing…

Great game. Loved the story. The only issue is that in endless, there are no days. It will always be the 4th of January forever which is so dumb. They should add a mode where it is like the story mode but without the story and it just has the normal days and the date goes up…. Endless still

4 Aug 2024

ScottHekking

App Store

So Much Fun!

Incredible game! Worth the money - amid so many useless ad filled games out there, I will always prefer to pay for quality work. Hopefully there’s another one in the works!

19 June 2024

XarxisXarexius

App Store

Good Game but a suggestion

Would you add a setting to return the UI to the original The new current UI frustrates me a lot cause I can’t have multiple things on my screen I would appreciate it, gives me anxiety not seeing it properly like it is on pc… still 5 stars

26 May 2024