Papers, Please

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Developer: Lucas Pope
Publisher: 3909
Franchise: —
Release date: Aug 8, 2013
Store page updated: Mar 8, 2023
Price: $9.99 · Steam store ↗

Review Analysis Score

92.4/ 100

Based on 369 reviews from the past 1 year

Steam User Rating

Recent 😄 Very Positive 97% of 408

All time 🤩 Overwhelmingly Positive 97% of 80,547

“genuinely fun and engaging gameplay experience”

How it holds up

−50+5

Gameplay

+2.84

Strategy +4.21 · Depth of builds, tactics, and meaningful choices

“requires strategic analysis and simulation of complex situations” (18)

🔒 5 more indicators

Story & World

+4.01

Story +4.15 · Plot, quests, writing, and the ending

“moral choices create real tension and multiple endings” (70)

🔒 2 more indicators

Content Volume

+2.32

Replayability +3.88 · Reasons to play again — runs, randomness, New Game+

“every run different, no run exactly the same, reinstall every few years” (16)

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Visuals & Sound

+3.27

Visuals +2.84 · Graphics, art style, and animation

🔒 1 more indicators

Multiplayer

+3.00

Not enough data — only 0% of reviews mention this.

Playing together +3.00 · Fun of playing with friends, teammates, or rivals

🔒 2 more indicators

Pricing & Fairness

+1.88

Not enough data — only 2% of reviews mention this.

Pricing +1.88 · Whether the price, DLC and microtransactions are reasonable, and how much paying gives you an edge

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Tech & Support

+0.23

Not enough data — only 4% of reviews mention this.

Stability +1.67 · Crashes, freezes, save loss, and game-breaking bugs

🔒 2 more indicators

Scores are the average of reviews that mention each category (−5 to +5). Fainter bars were mentioned by fewer reviews; grey means too few to trust. Tap a category ▾ to see what drives it.

Steam review activity

% positive over time

since launch, by month · major update

Aug 2013Sep 2026

Reviews

per day · 408 reviews, peak 20/day

Aug 20Sep 18

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