miscreant 🪸4d ago
The Duke of Fall 

WTF is with all the "Papers, Please, but without the dystopia" games? Like... the dystopia is the point. The surveillance state and all the horrible shit it forces upon you is THE POINT.

If you're playing a "Papers, Please" clone and it's in any way cheerful or cozy, you're basically playing fascist propaganda. Pressing a button to "send someone away" because of they failed a paperwork check should never feel fun or silly.

It should feel bad. Every time.

Feb 12 at 3:21pmWeb
Show threadErpelFeb 12
@valthonis there are "paper, please" without distopian shit?

what?

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Show threadThe Duke of Fall Feb 12
@Erpel I'll not link to it, but search Steam for "Nothing to Declare."
Show threadEtchFeb 15
@valthonis
before looking it up i thought your post was an exageration, but no this is the gaming equivalent of pragerU's videos(aimed at children) about the iron dome. lmao.
@Erpel
Show threadLRFeb 13
@valthonis hehe. this is the same reason why everyone argues farcry 2 is the best farcry.
Show threadnawanFeb 13
Heh, its not like these people are taking Papers Please seriously 😌

RE: https://dice.camp/@valthonis/116058339157945887
Show threadnawanFeb 13
@valthonis And I think it’s fine. They’re gamers, not sociologists analyzing the game.
Show threadAlice Feb 15
@valthonis there was a cozyslop airport security simulator, and the same slop company made, and i quote, landlord simulator. With an evict button ​​

edit: rentlord, not landlord simulator. See https://blog.giovanh.com/blog/2025/10/22/a-wholesome-plane-has-hit-the-second-cozy-tower/
a wholesome plane has hit the second cozy tower

more like no thoughts to declare

Show threadRegalia  Feb 15
@alice @valthonis I was trying to figure out what company this was about, but honestly this Steam user tag selection on this simulator is gold enough for me to stop caring
Show threadAlice Feb 15
@[email protected] @valthonis looks like there’s are multiple and i misremembered and when fact checking i just did a search fof landlird sinulator and assumed that’s the one - sorry

I meant the one mentioned in https://blog.giovanh.com/blog/2025/10/22/a-wholesome-plane-has-hit-the-second-cozy-tower/ (went back and found that article), so “rentlord”, and the company is called “rogue duck”
a wholesome plane has hit the second cozy tower

more like no thoughts to declare

Show threadAlice Feb 15
@valthonis @[email protected] (sorry for typos, it’s really late here and I’m half asleep)
Show threadezr (as seen on cellular!)Feb 15
as a game, where's the fun if there's no dystopia?? hello i would like to revise paperwork for discrepancies for fun in my free time and for it to not have any interesting effects on the society around me
Show threadLycaFeb 15
@valthonis "papers please without the dystopia" is as dumb as "dark souls without the bossfights and bleak setting" literally what else is left of the game
Show threadSarahFeb 15

@valthonis

"send someone away"They're going to the farm, it's so fun there they'll never come back.

Your work uniform is colourful and cheery.

Game rated from ages 5 and up.

Show threadziviFeb 15
@valthonis borders should not exist 
Show threadziviFeb 15
@valthonis the state saw that mistreated people would just leave so it made up a system of imaginary bounds people are not allowed to cross without explicit permission under threat of torture camps to keep its slaves locked up. can you imagine. oh right none of us need to imagine that’s fucking reality
Show threadziviFeb 15
@valthonis there are people working day and night to deny others basic freedom of movement to keep them enslaved and those people should be ashamed. all cops should be ashamed. those who think of being a cop as a Fun And Cozy Thing To Do should be ashamed