10 Gutsy Video Games That Tackle Polarising Subject Matter

10. Papers, Please

Immigration is a tough one to approach in real life. Often people will hold varying views that change as fast as their favourite TV personality demands.

So thank God Papers, Please came along to make it as simple as stamping passports and moving people along; no weighty choices or morally questionable decisions to be made here, no sir.

Or at least that's how it starts out. At first the player will make their way through Papers, Please in a rather haphazard manner of stamping passports with no real thoughts. The goal is simple, deny all foreigners, and glory to Arstotzka.

The game works so well because it puts the player in the position of a man with no real importance but one who directly influences the lives of countless people. Eventually the player must make choices that range from allowing refuges entry without the proper paperwork to allowing assassins in to end the current dictatorial regime.

No matter what choices the player makes however they always find their way back to that small box on the edge of the country, stamping passports and deciding the fates of countless immigrants.

Remember: Deny all foreigners, and glory to Arstotzka.