# Papers, Please

5 Hacker News commenters recommended Papers, Please and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 4 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People recommend it for its many balanced factors, steady stream of new situations, and its stories and moral choices.

## Why people recommend it

- Balances many factors with surprises (1 comments): "makes the player balance a lot of different factors while offering a steady stream of surprises and new situations to consider" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45846961))
- More engaging than Assassin's Creed (1 comments): "engages me in a way Assassin's Creed never could" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45846021))
- Stories and moral choices (1 comments): "It's about the stories and moral choices." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50288443))

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- [Grand Theft Auto (1997)](https://hackerapproved.com/p/grand-theft-auto.md): 28 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Papers, Please", https://hackerapproved.com/p/papers-please/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).