Can I Run Papers, Please?
Papers, Please is an adventure indie game from Lucas Pope, released in 2013. 3909 published it. It offers a single player campaign. Metacritic places it at 85. Completionists have 13 achievements to work through. Alongside Windows it also ships for macOS and Linux. Steam lists support for 15 languages. Its Steam review count passes 72 thousand, a large enough sample that odd hardware behaviour would be known by now. Cloud saves are enabled. At more than a decade old it predates every current graphics architecture, which helps compatibility and limits how well it exploits a modern card.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | 1.5 GHz Core2Duo |
|---|---|
| GPU | OpenGL 1.4 or better |
| RAM | 2 GB |
| Storage | 0.1 GB HDD |
Recommended requirements
Single source, verify with the publisher source
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Setting and environment
Papers, Please places its action in a deliberately retro presentation, and the player works through self contained puzzle rooms. The publisher supplies 15 storefront screenshots of these environments. It is played through a point and click interface.
Why Papers, Please is demanding
Papers, Please takes about 0 GB of disk space. System memory expectations are modest at 2 GB.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Papers, Please?
Papers, Please targets a mainstream modern PC: OpenGL 1.4 or better and 2 GB of RAM for the minimum. No single part dominates the requirements, so a balanced mid-range build clears it.
Bottleneck: CPU
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Can my PC run Papers, Please?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Papers, Please?
The minimum requirements are CPU: 1.5 GHz Core2Duo; GPU: OpenGL 1.4 or better; 2 GB RAM.
How much storage does Papers, Please need?
Papers, Please needs about 0.1 GB of HDD storage.
What is the bottleneck for Papers, Please?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Papers, Please is the CPU.