The limited space for paperwork, for instance, soon ends up being a major liability, with documents piled on top of documents and key information not always on hand. It’s your little scrap of power, for crushing the fools who would dare insult Arstotzka’s finest, or gracing an occasional sob story with administrative pity.Time and again, the details make the experience so much more than it might have been. The limited space and even more limited colour palette make the job feel oppressive but not actively unpleasant, with the ka-chunk finality of the DENIED or APPROVED stamp providing a shortcut straight into the brain of a terminal jobsworth. There’s a real tactility to handling the documents handed over by each person who arrives at the booth in the hope of work, a new life, or simply going home of shuffling them around what passes for your desk to double-check names and details and make sure the name on someone’s work visa matches the one on their passport. There’s more to Papers Please than just spotting a mismatched date or a missing access pass, though it’s impressive how satisfying even those simple slices of detective work can be.
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