In many titles, the gameplay is right there on the screen: jump, run, slash, shoot. But like the best detective games, the real gears of Papers Please are in your head. They're in the connections between clues, the layout of materials, what you're choosing to focus on and, more importantly, what you're choosing to forget. Papers reveals who you'd be in a totalitarian regime; to my chagrin, it showed me how easily I could become a perfect little cog in exchange for “job satisfaction.”