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Papers, Please, a unique dystopian game of social drama, and political statements, challenging your alertness, attention to detail, and morals with the puzzling and stressful work of an immigration inspector, is available for pre-orders on GOG.com, for Windows and Mac, for only $9.99!

Comrade! As you assume your post at the Grestin Border Checkpoint the Ministry of Admission would like to remind you that your work is crucial to the safety of the People's Republic of Arstotzka. The enemies of the state are many and our borders should remain impenetrable. Stay alert! Terrorists, spies, and miscreants will take advantage of your every smallest mistake to enter our motherland and threaten the people. Be vigilant! Always check and double-check every detail. Never ignore any inconsistency. The safety of our glorious nation rest is your personal responsibility! Oh, by the way, comrade--you will be paid based on the number of people you control each day. And we're raising your rent.

Papers, Please simulates the work of a immigration inspector whose responsibility is to controll the passports and other papers of the people trying to cross the border of your country. Your job gets more complicated daily, as new regulations are passed by the Ministry of Admission and the illegal immigrants get more and more creative in the attempts of tricking you into letting them in. You will face the grim reality of a dystopian communist republic of the early 1980s as you try to support your family and not end up in front of a firing squad as a traitor. Challenging, morally ambiguous, and intense gameplay will blow your mind!

Pre-order Papers, Please for only $9.99 and feel the Ministry of Admission breathing down your neck, as soon as the game arrives (which is expected to happen on August 8).
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Austrobogulator: Do we need to give GOG our passports so they can verify that we are eligible to pre-order this?
Papers, please.

*rummages*

A Kolechian? Please step over here...
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Hi guys,

The mention of "preorder extras" was just because of some internal confusion. Those extras are for everyone.

This has nothing to do with the dev and it's just our own mixup.

Sorry about this!
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gogskel: I thought this was freeware? Or was that only the Beta?
The beta is freeware, yes.
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TurnipSlayerr: snip
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JMich: Isn't there something missing from the "Compatibility" part of the gamepage? Or do we have a Mac Exclusive title?
Yeah, not sure what happened there. It's sorted now.

Thanks for the heads up!
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TurnipSlayerr: Yeah, not sure what happened there.
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JMich: I guess your papers weren't in order.
No entry for me :(
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JMich: I guess your papers weren't in order.
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TurnipSlayerr: No entry for me :(
Because you are Kolechian!
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TurnipSlayerr: No entry for me :(
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JudasIscariot: Because you are Kolechian!
How dare you make such an allegation! I am from Cobrastan.
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JudasIscariot: Because you are Kolechian!
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TurnipSlayerr: How dare you make such an allegation! I am from Cobrastan.
Ohohohoho...


Cobrastan is not a real country!
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TurnipSlayerr: How dare you make such an allegation! I am from Cobrastan.
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JudasIscariot: Ohohohoho...

Cobrastan is not a real country!
Cobrastan is real country! Who are you to say it is not?
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JudasIscariot: Ohohohoho...

Cobrastan is not a real country!
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TurnipSlayerr: Cobrastan is real country! Who are you to say it is not?
Never seen a passport with a duck as the national animal or "pre-approved" written in crayon and I have certainly never heard of Bestburg as it's not on my map. Next!
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Ophelium: Okay, so I played through the beta twice last night. Never thought doing a job and paying my bills would be so interesting. Bonus points for the reoccurring "annoying customer". I enjoyed the little moral issues: do you let a murderer or a human trafficker in because their papers are in order? I'll probably pick this up next weekend when I have a little extra spending cash.
You can detain the human trafficker :D
I'd just like to say that it's really nice and heartwarming to see how many people are appreciative of this game. It looks nothing like the modern gaming standards, it offers a completely obscure gameplay concept, and its visuals--though very consistent and well done--take us back well beyond 1990s. Yet still, so many people see it for what it is: a great, original title.

I played the beta myself for some time, and loved every minute of it. Few games make a lasting impression on me, these days--this one surely did.
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Ophelium: Well, I figured out how to detain the alleged murderer and the human trafficker. I also got a strange coin for letting the wife without entry papers in. I'm sure there are a few more things I've missed in the beta.
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PMIK: Did you ever figure out what the black piece of paper with "Corman Dex" on the back was all about?

I'm currently stopping myself from the playing the beta anymore because I don't want to get too tired of the gameplay before the full version comes out.
I figured out the black piece of paper.

After 20 playthroughs. I am not a clever man.
Post edited August 04, 2013 by JudasIscariot
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JudasIscariot: I figured out the black piece of paper.

After 20 playthroughs. I am not a clever man.
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Ophelium: You must share glorious secret. We must protect Arstotzka from foreign influences!

I played through again and was able to get two coins (they seem to be stamped with each nation's symbol) but I tried almost everything to figure out that piece of paper.
How do I know you aren't a spy for Kolechia?
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JudasIscariot: How do I know you aren't a spy for Kolechia?
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Ophelium: I got papers from a man named Jorji.
That name sounds...familiar.

Cobrastan, right?