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Modeled estimate, not a reported figure. How we estimate →
Prices
The United States storefront in every case, so this compares stores and not countries.
Prices
Each in the currency that store quoted — not converted: the gap between two rows is the publisher's pricing, not an exchange rate.
Every market we collect.
Discounts
Every price cut of more than 20% we have observed, in each market that quoted one, with this game's chart position on either side of it. These are episodes, not a model: a sale is one event, and one event cannot tell you what the next one will do.
Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 8.71/day in the week to Aug 10 → 23.43/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 22 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 9 places towards #1, and the 2,513 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
About
Genres
Sums Steam only; GOG publishes no volume signal, so the true total is higher by an unknown amount.
| Store | Price | Audience | Score | Chart | Est. revenue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SteamYou are here | $9.99 | 80.6Kreviews | 97% | — | $13.7M |
| $9.99 | 1.5Kratings | 92% | #159 | not modelled |
Matched by title — a reused name can pair the wrong games. * is a critic aggregate. Prices and positions are each store's United States storefront; Epic charts worldwide. Audience and Score too, except Steam's, which is worldwide.
Updates
Build ids and update times come straight from Steam's PICS — the same source SteamDB reads. Patch history grows as we record new builds.
Engagement
Reviews
Themes across 1627 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
Fantastico
Great game even 13 years later. Glory to Arstotzka!
After having downloaded this game off of random sites multiple times over the years, I've finally decided to buy Papers, Please to just have it whenever I want to play it. As with a large chunk of the people who've played this game, I first discovered it on YouTube I don't even know how long ago. Over time, I've played quite a lot of this game, and I gotta say that I absolutely love it. It's a very simple game with a pretty interesting little story and message behind it. I guess the only thing that annoyed me is that at some point you WILL run into money shortages which are a PITA to deal with. The point of the family is to eat the credits you may need late game, and add pressure on you to seek out corruption money. It's valid reasoning, but I don't like how bad it aways ends up getting so I just use the easy mode and the extra 20 credits is enough. Like I said though, that pressure is part of the narrative the game is trying to set. If you like games of this nature, where you just relax and do something simple but engaging, Papers, Please is for you.
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Stats
All-time low is the lowest price we've recorded for this game since we started tracking it.
Languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Ukrainian, Czech, Simplified Chinese +3 more
Hours played at review time, across 1.6K reviews with recorded playtime.
positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
The game is more than perfect, but it would be even better if we could reject or deport Indians, Pakistanis, Palestinians, and Iranians. Final note: 9.98/10
Fun classic game
Glória à Arstotzka.
:)
GLORY TO ARSTOTZKA
goo goo gaaaa gaaa this gamey looky goodie yayayay gooo gooo maaamaaa thiiissss sooo gooodyyyyy egegeuuughhhehhhe, MAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMA me a bebe! guuuggaaaagaaaaggaa
Gloria a Arstotzka
Active players
Estimated daily and monthly active players (DAU/MAU) modeled from peak concurrency.
Players by region
Where this game's players are, estimated from review languages.
Players also reviewed
The games this title's players most often review too — audience affinity.
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| $13.7M | 24.9K | 83% | $29.99 | |
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