Checkpoint Charlie.

AuthorShackford, Scott
PositionBriefly Noted - Papers, Please - Brief article

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A husband and wife arrive at the border of your country, seeking to immigrate. His papers are in order. Hers are not. Do you let them both in? After a humiliating body search, a man is discovered to be smuggling in medicine. He offers you a bribe. Do you have him arrested?

These are some of the dilemmas presented to the players of Papers, Please, a modest indie video game by developer Lucas Pope. Players take on the role of an immigration officer at the border crossing of a fictional oppressive Eastern European nation during the Cold War '80S.

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