Work the register at a dystopian grocery store where you balance serving customers with enforcing state regulations, risking infractions or worse for missteps. The core loop mirrors Papers Please but trades border control for retail, letting you manipulate systems and make morally ambiguous decisions as you manage your station and personal survival. A darkly satirical game with a responsive developer, best suited for players seeking choice-driven narrative experiences with absurdist humor.
About this game
Assigned to station 65, your role as employee 100411 will be to serve and sell products to the people, exercising the controls the state deems necessary to keep the population in line
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What players are saying
▲ Recommended3 hrs
Miss clicked and arrested a innocent civilian and did not get a infraction. Great game.
It's like Papers Please if you were running a grocery store in a dystopian future. While the political satire can be a little heavy handed at times, the core gameplay loop is really fun.
Also worth mentioning the developer is super involved and has been patching bugs within like an hour of them being reported on the forums.
I have no doubts this game CAN be a very good game. However it is missing quite a few QoL features that make the game not that interesting, and in parts frustrating, in the current state.
Some of my current issues:
- There is no way to pin any of the articles in your manual (at least as far as I can see) so constantly getting Violations for an incorrect ID, despite not knowing what I should be looking for or what was incorrect.
- The actual UI/Work Area is messy and not easy on the eye. There is so much space that is unused that is FULL of graphics.
- The buttons/icons aren't self-descriptive so could do with tooltips.
- You get thrown in at the deep end with very little hand-holding. Even for a seasoned Papers Please player, it is quite a learning curve to try and remember where everything is and what to do.
- The UI for the manual is confusing and not user friendly, with tiny buttons to press rather than the titles too.
Again, I think this can be a good game, but I can't recommend it in its current state.
Hello, my dear Nowherians. I hope you're all doing well! ❤️Today I'm excited to share some wonderful news: The State of Nowhere has officially been granted Steam Community Items.This is an important milestone for the game, and it means I'll be working on bringing Steam's community features to The State of Nowhere over the coming months.I also want to sincerely thank all of you for supporting the project since its launch. Every wishlist, every review, and every message has helped The State of Nowhere continue to grow and reach new milestones.Finally, I'd like to mention that a new update with improvements is coming in the next few weeks. I also finished implementing the game's public localization repository, and it will be included as part of this upcoming update.Take care, everyone! ❤️— Abel
