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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’ (www.videogameschronicle.com)
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[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 128 points 23 hours ago (11 children)

Pope also said he was more wary of releasing a major new game now because he enjoyed such critical success with Papers, Please and Return of the Obra Dinn that he doesn’t want to let players down.

“There’s also the sense that I was pretty happy with Obra Din and Papers, Please and I don’t… you know, maybe I can’t do it again, kind of thing. Do I really want to maybe just go out on a high note? Why drag my myself down with the next thing that people may not like?

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.

[–] Bane_Killgrind@lemmy.dbzer0.com 55 points 22 hours ago (9 children)

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"

[–] DisgruntledGorillaGang@reddthat.com 4 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

What other games came out that were like Papers Please? I only ever played/heard of that one.

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 8 hours ago

In Soviet Russia, papers check you! /j

[–] Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz 7 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I would call Not Tonight a 'paperslike'.

[–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 2 points 4 hours ago

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

[–] Bane_Killgrind@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 19 hours ago

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.

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