Recent reviews by unfortunate girl

there are planes
there are tanks
sometimes you kill people
sometimes you die
sometimes you sideclimb and then die
its okay

Papers, Please is a wonderfully constructed experience detailing both the banalities and the terrors involved with heavy-handed bureaucracy in a former Soviet Bloc satellite nation.

Pros:

• Simple, yet challenging
  
• Delightfully grim setting
  
• Coherent and engaging plot
  
• Thwart terrorist attacks, human trafficking, and smuggling
  
• Pleasant 耽美的 a e s t h e t i c 耽美的
  
• Fail to thwart terrorist attacks, human trafficking, and smuggling
  
• Upward mobility
  
• Let your anemic son succumb to his cold because Class 5 dwellings don't pay for themselves
  
• Ogle people's supple naked bodies against their will
  
• Jorji Costava™

Cons:

• Gulag
  
• Can't actually visit the Pink Vice
  
• Days are too short to adequately ogle
  
• Your useless, anemic son
  
• Immigrants

If you're a fan of JRPG's, first-person twitch shooters, or racing sims, this is definitely a game you'll grow to love as much as I have. However, if you're looking for relatively authentic recreation of day-to-day bureaucratic tedium, sprinkled lovingly with a carefully realized, thought provoking plot and a distinct art style to match, you may want to look elsewhere.