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Papers, Please

Lucas Pope · 2013-08-08

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A grim single-player dystopian document-inspection sim with moral dilemmas and family-management stakes; reviewer playtimes center around 8–11 hours.

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Release: 2013-08-08
Publisher: 3909
Studio: Lucas Pope

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