- Price$4.99
- CategoryGames
- SubgenreSimulation
- First releasedDecember 12, 2014
- Versions3 archived
- Installable3 of 3
- AvailabilityStill on the App Store
- Seller3909
- Bundle IDco.3909.papersplease
RequirementsCompatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 5.0 or later.
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Report an issueA 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."
______________________________________ 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
______________________________________ 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.
______________________________________ 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.
______________________________________ Warning
This game contains mature themes, non-photographic nudity, and brief moments of pixelated violence.
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Chart History
Ratings Over Time
sampled from 4 archived captures| Date | Version | Rating | Ratings | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 11, 2018 | — | ★ 4.8 | 256 | $7.99 |
| November 23, 2020 | — | ★ 4.8 | 436 | $7.99 |
| December 3, 2023 | 1.4.12 | ★ 4.7 | 850 | $4.99 |
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Archived Reviews
8 of 15I have been playing it for two days, and. it has been a pretty decent fun game. However, i feel like there is way too many bugs that should be fixed. Most important is the citations. Sometimes, no matter how hard i check the documents and how long i take, it still gives me a citation for something that i know I have checked through. I thought this is perhaps an in-game feature where they want to balance out your earnings, but i thought about it and it doesn’t make sense. I feel like it is a bug that should be fixed. Although it’s a fun game, the citations i get kind of kills all the fun. I hope the developers can fix it soon.
Great game
Really enjoying the game so far…definitely makes you dot your Is and cross your Ts. Wish that the passport would self-center under the approve/deny stamp though…
This game was extremely fun, it has a good plot, not too easy, and every choice decides your fate the graphics are good and runs very smoothly. The reason I am not rating this 5 stars is because sometimes your just checking papers and nothing really interesting happens but other than that all of it is fun.
It’s good but in vertical play for some reason it sometimes still gives a discrepancy even tho their response isn’t accurate to their entry permit. It shows as matching data n trying to not get 1 discrepancy bugs me
Honestly the mobile app is even better than the desktop version! I love the app! The swiping to each document is way better than trying to fit them all into the workspace on the desktop game!
We love Arzstotzka it’s all powerful and beneficial all generous
Would be a lot more fun if they made it easier to figure things out, for example having to search people. Shouldn’t take ten minutes to figure out such essential things
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