
Sometimes the morally right choice is legally wrong, and vice versa.This aesop is elaborated on in this video. Put a man in both, and you have the story of Papers, Please. Power breeds corruption, but so does desperation.It doesn't help that some of them have names generally associated with the opposite gender as well. This triggers a strip search scan that can either clear the discrepancy or incriminate the entrant enough to merit detainment. Sometimes, the game acknowledges the fact that an individual looks much like the opposite gender and lets you classify it as a discrepancy. However, if you check for discrepancies, you will be able to determine their gender. Ambiguous Gender: Due to the artistic style, it can be difficult at times to determine the gender of an individual just by looking.It's left completely ambiguous whether any of these are good or bad endings, or which are better outcomes than the others. Ambiguous Ending: Not counting the various endings where you are killed or jailed for life, there are effectively three possible "final" outcomes in the game: EZIC brings down the wall and rises to power with you becoming an agent of theirs, EZIC is foiled and a deal is reached with Kolechia with you remaining a loyal inspector, or you and some or all of your family escape to Obristan.Ambidextrous Sprite: If the entrant provides documentation with their pictures, their images will likely be flipped, though there's no discrepancy there.


United Federation token: On the instructions of the father of one of his victims, confiscate Simon Wens' passport but allow him entry, then give the passport to the father when he returns. Kolechia token: Keep the love note an entrant gives you (this requires you to admit them), then give it to the depressed entrant. Hold on to the watch he gives you as collateral, give it back to him when he returns with correct papers, then return the bribe he gives you when he complains the watch is scratched. Republia token: Admit Danic Lorun when he has invalid papers but promises to return with the correct ones. Obristan token: Admit Jorji Costova at any point.Īrstotzka token: Distribute all four of Messof Anegovych's business cards. Impor token: Admit a woman who says she is excited to see her son, but has a discrepancy in her papers.Īntegria token: Admit a woman who comes directly after her husband, but has a discrepancy in her papers (the husband's papers are correct). A list of the tokens with unmarked spoilers: Click to expand Several of them are for taking the "morally right" action in a situation even though you receive a citation for doing so.

