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2013PCPlayStationSteam Deck verified97 % positive9.75 €

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.

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 Stay. 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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2022PCSteam Deck verified95 % positive9.99 €

Choices with consequences
Dark, serious atmosphere
Strong, story-driven narrative

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.

Stay

Strong, story-driven narrative

You talk with an abducted man trapped in an abandoned house, trying to help him through text conversation and light puzzles. Your choices and the time you take shape multiple endings in this tense, emotional tale.

Do No Harm

Puzzles and brain teasers

You play a doctor in a Lovecraftian world, diagnosing eerie symptoms and treating patients with the help of your medical book. Over 30 days you make morally tough calls about who to save, sacrifice or trust, leading to multiple 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.

Interrogation: You Will Be Deceived

Puzzles and brain teasers

As a police detective you question terror suspects in conversation puzzles while managing your team and its reputation. You choose whether to manipulate, threaten or torture, and live with the moral consequences.

Beholder: Conductor

Puzzles and brain teasers

As a train conductor in a totalitarian state, you watch passengers, report offenses and carry out sensitive Ministry tasks. Moral dilemmas and surveillance drive this spin-off of the Beholder series.

Just Ignore Them

Puzzles and brain teasers

A short point-and-click horror adventure where you guide an eight-year-old boy through a night of monsters haunting his home. Puzzles and decisions determine who survives and how the future unfolds.

Do Not Feed the Monkeys

Strong, story-driven narrative

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.

Downfall

Strong, story-driven narrative

A dark point-and-click horror adventure about Joe, whose attempt to save his marriage on a getaway spirals into madness and murder. Your decisions shape what kind of man he turns out to be.

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