No game in the history of games has ever sounded so ludicrously unappealing as Papers, Please does, yet it bagged itself quite a number of accolades last year after turning out to be a lot better in practice than on, well, paper. You take the role of a border control officer for a fictional country called Arstotzka, and must take on the thrilling task of... inspecting the documentation of immigrants wishing to make a new home in your glorious homeland. In the game, you are strictly punished for missing small details that mark documents as fake, creating a meticulous and draining experience that, against all odds, utterly gripped everyone around the globe. With a family at home that needed feeding and occasional dramatic events requiring tough prioritising decisions, this border control simulator asked just how far you would go in making sure your family survived, winning the hearts of gamers despite it looking like the most soul-crushingly dull minute-to-minute gameplay experience out there.
A young man with a hairy face. Will often tell you that winter is coming before retreating to his mancave to play video games with a wooly jumper at the ready, just in case.
