The game’s blurb:
You’re a state-installed landlord in a totalitarian country. Place listening devices, steal and sneak into your tenants’ apartments. Use what you uncovered to report anyone capable of plotting against the state. You MUST! But WILL you?
Imagine the horrible communist dystopia of a really nosy landlord, something that can only happen in a Totalitarian Authoritarian country!
The weird thing about Papers Please is that it’s not from Eastern Europe like these 1984 authoritarian gommulism bad games usually are.
It’s fucking insane that he cites having to travel between Singapore and the US for work repeatedly as inspiring the idea for a passport inspector game, and then he makes it about Communism.
Ideal American swine artist brain.
I’ve seen libs argue that it’s not really about communism, just a fictional authoritarian country.
Which happens to be clearly Eastern European and full of the usual Eastern Bloc cliches.
Yeah it’s just blatantly dishonest, they’re pissing on you and helpfully explaining that it’s merely raining ammonia-rich water.
Have to make it about fake evil European country because Americans can’t point to Singapore on a map.