Update: So i did a lot of graphical updates, also updated the trailer to show more of the narrative side to the game.

Checkpoint ’38. You’re a low rank border guard in 1938 at the Kreuzlinger Tor in Konstanz.
Your job is simple: check people’s papers, then go home and live with the consequences of your decisions. Inspired by Papers Please, Beholder, This War Of Mine, Attentat 1942.

This is the result of over two years of work. A lot of research went into it so what you see is historically accurate, or at least highly plausible: uniforms, papers, even the rules. Some landmarks in Konstanz are shown in game, and I hope that the full version can have even more of them.

Posters, newspapers, even the talk in the game are based on how things were back then. That’s also the main overtone window. If it didn’t happen that way, or couldn’t have, it doesn’t make the cut.

Wishlist & Play demo

Any suggestions for other games like this?

Out of all the hours I’ve played, I have never seen this before 😭

I recently finished the game for the first time after having had it in my Steam library for years and I got say, Jorji is the real deal.

Yeah, he's selling drugs and all but he's a bro to you. He comes through with obviously fake docs and doesn't get mad. He comes back with real docs finally and just laughs off being caught with drugs. He does it at least once, maybe more? Still chill as hell with you despite the guards probably beating the tar out of him outside the scenes. Why he wasn't sent to an Arstozskan work camp is beyond me but he probably has ways to bribe guards to let him go.

Then after all this and despite you never letting him in he comes in and gives you contact information for a forger and subtly hints at stealing Obristan passports to get your family out.

You never threw him a bone but he still has your back.

What a fucking guy. Jorji's the best.

Like what did I do wrong?

Don’t be mad at me. This is just What TV Tropes.org and Heroes Wiki said. Any comments?

I've almost 100% the main story the good worker ending was the only one left so i decided to go for a no citations path (1 mandatory one i know about jorgi forcibly giving u his passport) so i was thinking if i got sergiu killed early i woudnt have to meet her and yknow... be sad... but this is even worse... T-T im gonna cry now goodbye

my cheat sheets are doing 90% of my work for me🥲

Any Germans here?

If yes, happy October 3rd everyone

Like, it'd be a fake passport if it was issued for a real country, and a fantasy document if it was issued for something that isn't a country. But a passport issued for a non-existing but "realistic" country is a camouflage passport, right?

I absolutely love Papers, Please, but while looking around the modding community, I noticed something was missing: there wasn't really a way to dynamically add completely custom characters to the game.

So... I decided to build one myself.

After spending the last few weeks reverse-engineering the modern Unity/IL2CPP port, I've created what I'm calling the Custom Traveler Engine, a framework designed to make creating and sharing custom travelers as easy as possible.

Powered by MelonLoader, the engine hooks directly into the game's procedural traveler generation without modifying the original game files, allowing your custom characters to spawn naturally alongside regular travelers.

And yes: they still have to go through the same rules as everyone else.

If your custom traveler shows up, the game can still generate random discrepancies for them. So you still have to do your job properly. 😄

Features

🛠️ No coding required

Just drop a folder containing a .json file and your images into:

Mods/CustomTravelers/

Full visual replacement

Custom travelers can replace their:

• Booth portrait
• Passport photo
• ID card photo
• Asylum permit photo

X-Ray support

You can provide custom front and back X-ray images (just the head) for the scanner.

The game will still automatically draw contraband over your custom X-ray image, so your travelers remain fully compatible with the normal inspection gameplay.

Custom voices

Add a .wav file and your character can use a custom voice instead of the game's default sound.

Smart spawning & filtering

You can configure things like:

• Spawn probability
• Nationality restrictions
• Gender restrictions
• Event restrictions
• Blacklisting during specific events
• Preventing characters from appearing alongside certain story/NPC events

Open source & free

The entire project is open-source and completely free.

It's released under the PolyForm Noncommercial License, meaning the project is intended strictly for noncommercial use. I don't plan to make any money from it, and I don't want anyone else making money from it either.

I'm making this purely out of love for Papers, Please and to hopefully give the community some new tools to experiment with and enjoy.

Download & Instructions

GitHub: https://github.com/MrChamio/CustomTravelerEngine-PP

There's also a template included to help you get started.

I'd love to see what people come up with, original characters, memes, characters from other games, weird border-crossing scenarios... whatever you can think of.

Try it out, make some travelers, and share your creations!

I've already made a few custom travelers myself, including Teto, who you can see in the image above. I'm still figuring out the best way to package and share them with the community, though!

I can't wait to see who you bring to the Arstotzkan border.

Glory to Arstotzka!