I actually played Paper's Please, and it was a fun, if not mechanically simple, game. And when I say fun, I mean as fun as stamping various forms of documentation can be. But when I was asked by a man to stamp his wife's expired passport, I was engaged a moral quandary: Do I allow this man's wife to pass the border so that they can be together, or do I receive a demerit, and possible loss of income?

I mean, my child's sick, and I haven't paid the electricity bill, so my family is freezing. But if I deny this woman's stamp, what will happen to her? I mean, where do denied refuges go when their home country is currently in a state of civil war?