When it comes to video games that will make you think, few are as cerebral as “dystopian document thriller” Papers, Please, a Mac game released in 2013. It casts the player as a passport inspector for a fictional Soviet bloc state who must keep track of increasingly arcane rules to let people in or out of the country … even when a mistake can cost him his life.
We declared Papers, Please one of the best freakin’ Mac games of 2013, but if you didn’t play it then, good news: It’s coming to the iPad this week.
According to a tweet from Lucas Pope, the game will be released on iPad on December 12.
December 12th pic.twitter.com/jczO9zbmah
— Lucas Pope (@dukope) December 11, 2014
Pope went on to tell his followers that the game is iPad-only, but will run even on a first-gen iPad. He also said that, unlike the original game, he had to take out some of Papers, Please‘s (very artful) nudity, since it breached “anti-pornography” App Store review guidelines.
Papers, Please is a fantastic game, but just like FTL, it feels like a game that is better played on the iPad than the Mac. If you’ve never played Papers, Please, you’re in for a treat.
Source: Twitter
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
