Bureaucracy and an authoritarian government compel the player to fight the urge to perform routine and depersonalized border duties with respect to the law in Lucas Pope's Papers, Please. Oh, how every soul who yearns to enter what is seemingly one of the least egregious countries of this faux Eastern European landscape haunts my mind when I stamped DENIED to their faulty documents or simply flawed by human error out of my control or to the excuses (humane or not, true or false), and by ignoring their humanity, I became the model of state control. With its addicting simplicity to an increasingly complex amount of information to scan while adding black humor to the horrific tale of oppression and underground revolution, Papers, Please is no doubt a significant masterpiece of the indie space beginning to burst from the AAA industry during the late '00s and early '10s.