In it you were the editor in chief of a newspaper based in the glorious nation of Republia.
THE REPUBLIA TIMES GAME FREE
This week’s roundup of free games is all about life or death situations with dangerous and deadly games about zombies, mysterious monsters and editing a newspaper in an Orwellian country.So did you guess the game for this week? It was The Republia Times from 2012. Our first game this week, I Saw Her Standing There, is a touching tale of boy meets girl. To keep your love safe you need to guide her to a cage on each level without running afoul of the other, presumably less attractive zombies and other obstacles that stand in the way of your love. The Republia Times is an odd but compelling little game about running a newspaper in a dictatorship right out of 1984. To keep the government happy, and your family safe, you’ll need to carefully edit the paper so readers stay loyal to the government without boring them all to death. There’s more to the game than that but revealing too much would be ruining the twist. Regular readers of Free Friday might remember another SCP game from a previous Free Friday column. Like that game, SCP Containment Breach draws inspiration from the SCP Project but this time your main opponent is a deadly statue that attacks whenever you look away. Who fans, but SCP surprisingly got to the concept first and managed to make it even scarier.Get used to screen, this is your whole world. On a bitterly cold, stoically grey Soviet Russian morning in the fictional province of Arstotzka, a tightly-packed group of immigrants band together, ID cards and work permits in-hand, as they face the wrath of the border checkpoint patrol. There are mothers and fathers crossing to meet long forgotten sons, husbands travelling separately to wives, those in need of medical care, and the few who will do anything to get across. Papers, Please is a ‘dystopian document thriller’ developed by indie-mastermind Lucas Pope, responsible for hidden gems 6 Degrees of Sabotage and The Republia Times, the latter of which forced you into a journalistic role torn between your allegiances to either the people or the state. Thus, in Papers, Please, Pope has crafted a carefully unravelling narrative that revolves around the core balancing act of allowing a menagerie of foreign citizens into the ‘glorious’ Arstotzka.Īll of the responsibility of checking the documents of these people falls to you. All major threads are channeled through you, the passport-checking, fingerprint-scanning hardass.
Perhaps when somebody fails to produce appropriately in-date documentation, stating they were in a rush because they need urgent medical care or they’re meeting up with their partner across the border, you decide to let them through? Doing so means repercussions for your family at home should your philanthropic tendencies get the better of you. With the game pulling no punches in regards to neglected family needs leading to permanent death, do the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few? They may go hungry for the evening, or be without medicine should one of them fall ill in your government-issued ‘Class 8 dwelling’. Memorise regions, seals and districts, then hit the red button to highlight non-matching information One that instantly asks a very personal question: could you sacrifice members of your own family to allow for others to flourish? Or would you deny entry to those without adequate papers (even going so far as to detain them for extra cash), so that your loved ones can live more comfortably, or at the very least, survive? With 20 different endings all playing out depending on surviving family members, terrorist/state allegiances, and other story elements best discovered yourself, Papers, Please is a phenomenally intricate piece of art.
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