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Papers, Please creator Lucas Pope says he no longer reveals what he’s working on in case it’s stolen or ‘slurped up by AI’
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You know, I feel him there. I can't even imagine how to make a successful follow-up after two games that were not just smash hits, but brilliant and unconventional too. Everyone is basically expecting a piece of genius (me included). Not to mention the step up from Papers to Obra Dinn was so huge in terms of production and scope that it's easy to expect another escalation.
He's in a tricky position but I'd like to see him create anything that he finds interesting. It doesn't need to be as refined as Obra Dinn, but it would be a shame if he didn't release something just because it's 75% as good as Obra Dinn.
Lucas Pope is a much smarter person than me, so I'm sure he'll make the right decision for him. I'm sure just making money doesn't mean all that much to him anymore.
To be fair, the first spawned a genre and the second is a masterpiece, he set an impossible standard. But you could have said that before the second was released.
If I could tell Pope one thing, it's "just make games you think you'll like dude"
It frustrates me that I'll never be able to enjoy Obra Dinn again for the first time. This will probably for ever be a one of its kind game, and it makes me sad
Try the roottrees are dead.
Definitely not the same, but have you checked out Seance at Blake Manor?
What other games came out that were like Papers Please? I only ever played/heard of that one.
The upcoming I Have No Change has a certain Papers-esque feel to it. You're stuck in a kiosk doing mundane things, and narratives are told through the characters that visit your kiosk.
In Soviet Russia, papers check you! /j
I would call Not Tonight a 'paperslike'.
Speaking as Brit who is salty as hell at Brexit, I really enjoyed "Not Tonight". It takes the Papers, Please mechanical framework and applies it to a new socio-economic context for some really effective satire. If you hadn't mentioned it, then this is the one that I would have commented to add
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3419520/Quarantine_Zone_The_Last_Check/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3431040/Thats_not_my_Neighbor/
Those are the closest two I think.
There's others that get more into FNAF type of gameplay, or straight detective sorts.