🛃⛔ Checkpoint Sims ⛔🛂

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Black Man Underwear

Black Man Underwear

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Congratulations. The October labor lottery is complete. Your name was pulled. For immediate placement, report to the Ministry of Admission at Grestin Border Checkpoint. An apartment will be provided for you and your family in East Grestin.

Games like Papers Please, That's Not My Neighbor, Shift At Midnight, Not Tonight, and Contraband Police have created a niche genre: checkpoint gameplay.

Discuss.
 
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EDIT: Everyone should have a friend like Jorji from Papers Please.
 
Black Man Underwear said:
Games like Papers Please, That's Not My Neighbor, Shift At Midnight, Not Tonight, and Contraband Police have created a niche genre: checkpoint gameplay.
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I only played the first two and enjoyed them both. I will say that That's Not My Neighbor is extremely easy, and has less pressure compared to something like Papers Please.
 
I am autistic enough that now I hope someone has made a TSA simulator because I would play it and I would enjoy it.

(Relatedly, airport travel has somehow managed to get a lot smoother since the days after 9/11, despite the new rules and whatnot. I was surprised.)
 

I think Home Safety Hotline qualifies in this genre. You are basically taking calls at a 411 where people are describing their issues and you are trying to figure out of it's supernatural and which kind of monster it is. I watched a playthrough of the Christmas themed DLC and found it really interesting and this thread reminded me that I want to pick up the base game to play for October.
 
I played a little of Papers Please but I'd always wind up drifitng off before getting to any depth or plot points. One thing that really bothered me about it was the entire premise of having your pay docked for fucking up. That directly implies that you have another checkpoint or supervisor right over your shoulder doing your job but somehow not interdicting these people. I know it's just a game mechanic, but the thing is, the whole game is driven by its premise and theming. The whole pathos of it is supposed to be "I want to do right but if I do my job incorrectly my family suffers." So it's not just a break from reality, it's a huge hole in the logic that makes the thing work. I reckon for most people it doesn't matter but it does to me. I think it could have been something instead like, if you fuck up there's a CHANCE you get caught, and you don't KNOW if you've been caught/if a file's being built against you, so it's always uncertainty and paranoia.

I'm real interest in No, I'm Not a Human, initially dismissed it as flavor of the month zoomerslop (like Buckshot Roulette) then at some point got hooked on the idea of it and have spoiled some of it for myself.

Plugging my thread that's Papers Please related:
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You niggas would like I'm on Observation Duty. They're piss cheap spot the difference (like user said up-thread) puzzles with supernatural theming. You're watching cameras. Ghosts and shit move chairs, leer at you, you can actually die but this isn't Five Nights at Freddy's like, it's more like watching sucky YouTube videos of "ghosts" with a checklist so you can report to your boss "yeah the poltergeist is knocking over flower pots again"

 
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