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Papers, Please - A Dystopian Document Thriller - Now on Steam!
Jairo:
dear god I hope this game gets greenlit
Frontrox:
Haha this is fun, hope it gets greenlit.
Chrono:
--- Quote from: MegaScientifical on April 12, 2013, 12:47:45 AM ---You approve or deny depending on matching data. Early on, if data doesn't match, they just go. Later on, there is stricter procedure. They might turn up missing documentation if you question them instead of straight denying them. As the game goes on, there can be more discrepancies with their documents, and you have to be keen on all of them. It's fun in a challenging way. You look over a paper, let them in, get in trouble. "What? Damn it, the one time I didn't check gender." xD
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I got a penalty because the height didn't match up.
But yeah, at first glance I didn't think this would be a game I would enjoy. But after playing it, and realizing the condition of your family, you realize how hard this actually is. I was piling those documents all over my desk like a champ and investigating every single obvious detail at once, then checking the more challenging details shortly after. I get so proud when I can afford the food, heat, and medicine.
But yeah, then they bitch at me because one guy's height didn't match up. Who the hell would forge a completely legitimate document, one that they could obtain normally through their daily life due to the fact that everything was correct, except their damn height? Did the guy grow or did his legs get chopped off or something? I don't even know if he was too tall or too short for what was written.
Bloody Mary:
Pretty neat little game. The money system needs a large overhaul though. Maybe a streak system where your payment increases slightly for every consecutive correct choice? This would discourage just rushing through the approve/deny process in hopes of getting more cash. Of course, there would also need to be a streak difficulty curve too. (IE: the larger streak you attain, the harder the visas are to decode).
Chrono:
The dev is going to change it so that the opposite type of streak happens. If you make too many consecutive wrong choices, you will lose more money (instead of just 10 every time) and potentially lose (at about 5 wrong guesses in a single day).
I was also thinking, maybe someone should make a mod for this where you're Badspot at the account creation office and you have to approve or deny Blockland registrations and make sure not to let any Glass or Plaz alts in.