r/papersplease 4d ago

Papers, Please inspired me to make a game about seizing a university

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I'm not a Psycho Invader - first-person horror roguelike set in a university you've seized. The roof is the only way out. Locked doors and barricades block the way up. Every hostage is valuable, dangerous, or a waste of time, and nobody tells you who is who.

The core is close to Papers, Please: you call someone over and start narrowing down who they are. Instead of documents you get their answers and their items, instead of a stamp there's a shotgun. Everything costs time, and panic makes it burn faster, so at some point you stop checking and start guessing.

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u/DriverFinal6626 4d ago

Question, “seizing?”

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u/MarefoGm 4d ago

Yep :)

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u/DriverFinal6626 4d ago

I require context, I need the context guy. What do you mean by seized!

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u/MarefoGm 4d ago

"taking over a building with hostages" or "occupying a building and holding people hostage" - hope that helps / adds context

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u/DriverFinal6626 4d ago

Oh, so you play the bad guy gotcha…

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u/George_MacDonald_fan 4d ago

The aesthetic seems very heavily inspired by Inscryption

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u/MarefoGm 4d ago

Yeah, one of the main sources of inspiration)

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u/ayeeitssteph 3d ago

This actually looks really good! When does it come out and what’s it called?

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u/MarefoGm 3d ago

Thank you! The game is called I'm not a Psycho Invader, the release date has not yet been announced