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2013 PCPlayStation 9.75 € 👍 97 % Overwhelmingly positive, 74,187 reviews on Steam

As a border inspector in the fictional Eastern Bloc state of Arstotzka, you scrutinize paperwork under time pressure while balancing duty, your family's survival, and the fates of desperate travelers. A bleak, morally gripping game with many endings.

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Choices with consequences
Dark, serious atmosphere
Puzzles and brain teasers
Distinctive, stylised art style

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The closest matches for Papers, Please are Who's Lila?, Home Safety Hotline and Needy Streamer Overload. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Papers, Please special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Who's Lila?

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2022 PC 9.99 € 👍 95 % Overwhelmingly positive, 2,731 reviews on Steam

Choices with consequences
Dark, serious atmosphere
Puzzles and brain teasers

A reverse detective story where you are the suspect under interrogation and control your character's facial expressions instead of picking dialogue lines. The unusual mechanic makes lying, nerves and memory gaps tangible.

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Home Safety Hotline

Puzzles and brain teasers

You staff an eerie home safety hotline, using a manual to tell callers whether the things in their house are harmless or deadly. Its analog horror look and the weight of your judgments build creeping dread.

Needy Streamer Overload

Distinctive, stylised art style

You manage the daily life of streamer Ame, scheduling streams and time slots while trying to keep her fragile mental state in check. Behind the colorful internet-culture look lies a dark story about dependency, with many different endings.

Beholder

Strong, story-driven narrative

As a state-appointed apartment manager in a totalitarian regime, you spy on tenants and make morally heavy decisions. Time, money and conscience are all scarce, and your choices lead to many different endings.

Do Not Feed the Monkeys

Puzzles and brain teasers

You join a secret club that spies on strangers through surveillance cameras and decide whether and how to interfere in their lives. You also have to pay rent and buy food, which makes every moral choice harder.

The Convenience Store

Strong, story-driven narrative

A Japanese-style horror game in which you play a college student working a night shift at a convenience store. Mundane job tasks blend with creeping dread, puzzles and multiple possible outcomes.

Your Turn to Die: Death Game by Majority

Puzzles and brain teasers

A visual novel thriller where a group of strangers fights for survival in deadly games. Puzzles, logic and votes drive a dark, twist-filled story.

The Coffin of Andy and Leyley

Strong, story-driven narrative

A dark, story-driven RPG Maker horror about two siblings starving in a quarantined apartment. Your choices lead to disturbing, macabre and often darkly funny turns across many endings.

Home

Strong, story-driven narrative

An atmospheric pixel-art horror game where you wake in a strange house and piece together a murder. Your own reading of the clues shapes what really happened.

No One Lives Under the Lighthouse

Distinctive, stylised art style

You take over as the new keeper of a remote island lighthouse after your predecessor vanished, and slowly slip into a creepy mix of pixel art, light puzzles and creeping dread. It is a short experience built on mood and mystery rather than combat.

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