
Take over the duties of a border guard inspector in a communist country of the 80's. Smuggling, corruption and forgery are the order of the day here. Be vigilant and earn the respect of your superiors.
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The United States storefront in every case, so this compares stores and not countries.
Prices
Each in the currency that store quoted — not converted: the gap between two rows is the publisher's pricing, not an exchange rate.
Every market we collect.
Charts
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No United States chart position — it charts only in the markets below.
Discounts
Every price cut of more than 20% we have observed, in each market that quoted one, with this game's chart position on either side of it. These are episodes, not a model: a sale is one event, and one event cannot tell you what the next one will do.
Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 5/day in the week to Aug 14 → 15.57/day in the week after.
About
The year is 1981, and as a young officer trainee, you are assigned to work at a border post in the mountainous region of Karikatka. Entry into the Acarist People's Republic is strictly regulated by the party and your every move is monitored! The situation at the border escalates when your comrade is killed during one of the interventions...
Document control
Every visitor must have a set of valid documents. Even the slightest discrepancy means refusal of entry. Over time, the number of documents will increase and errors will be more difficult to detect.
Smuggling detection
Our intelligence regularly provides information about suspicious drivers. Search their vehicles using a UV flashlight and then use the appropriate tools to extract the smuggled goods. No amount of contraband should cross the border!
Shootouts
In some situations you will be forced to use firearms. Your station is a constant target for Oberankov's gang attacks, and every away mission carries the risk of a clash with the enemy.
Police chases
Desperate smugglers may attempt to escape from the control zone. It is your duty to stop and arrest them! Buy and upgrade police cars to improve the effectiveness of your pursuit.
Post management
Upgrade your police station to increase its defenses and improve subsequent inspections. However, keep in mind the rising cost of maintaining your station. Successful inspections, foiled smuggling and successful interventions are a few ways to earn cash.
Special assignments
Always be ready to intervene in an emergency. Solve crime puzzles, support your comrades and thwart the Blood Fist rebels. Make decisions that will determine the future of Acaristan.
Genres
Add-ons
Each DLC is estimated with the same model as a game, then summed — a modeled figure, not reported DLC sales.
Sums Steam only; PlayStation publishes no volume signal, so the true total is higher by an unknown amount.
| Store | Price | Audience | Score | Chart | Est. revenue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SteamYou are here | $29.99 | 24.9Kreviews | 95% | — | $24.1M |
| $29.99 | 2.2Kratings | 86% | — | not modelled |
Matched by title — a reused name can pair the wrong games. * is a critic aggregate. Prices and positions are each store's United States storefront; Epic charts worldwide. Audience and Score too, except Steam's, which is worldwide.
Updates
Build ids and update times come straight from Steam's PICS — the same source SteamDB reads. Patch history grows as we record new builds.
Engagement
Reviews
Themes across 1166 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
Decent game. I like denying people from entering my lovely country. Unfortunately my mate Mr Munns got a bit too political during his playthrough and is now sat in HMP awaiting his release (won't be until 2065). He did some atrocious acts to a man and his truck of cows but we no longer speak about this. True patriot and he loved his country but I fear for his fellow inmates as our Munns can be aggressive at night.
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For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 26 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 7 places towards #1, and the 2,400 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
Stats
All-time low is the lowest price we've recorded for this game since we started tracking it.
Languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Thai, Turkish, Japanese +6 more
Hours played at review time, across 1.2K reviews with recorded playtime.
positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
Игра отличная, после того как ты прошел компанию, ты можешь дальше проверять машины в бесконечной смене но, с другими случаями пропуска. Ждем длс на Кагастам. И еще, даже на моем довольно слабом ПК тянет на средних настройках графики!
Хороший симулятор, хороший. Тільки досягнення душнаваті Цікавий факт в Акарістані живуть тільки чоловіки, ні одної жінки. Якась гачі мучі країна Розробники додумались додати жінок, тільки в длс (длс ще не вийшло)
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In Contraband Police spielt man ganz im Sinne von Papers Please auf einem Grenzposten einen titelgebenden Grenzpolizisten Anfang der 80er. In einem Land welches mit eiserner Hand den Realsozialismus lebt und liebt. Die Aufgabe unserer Spielfigur ist denkbar einfach: Die passenden Papiere kommen durch der Rest nicht und nebenbei verübt man auch mal seine polizeilichen Aufgaben im Landesinneren. Umgesetzt wird das Ganze insgesamt recht solide. Gespielt wird in der Ego-Perspektive mit immer wieder wechselnde Anweisungen, die beachtet werden müssen, kleine Zwischenevents und Charaktere, die den Gameplayloop aufrecht erhalten, paar Sammelstücke und eine einfache, aber nette Story mit multiplen Enden. Grenzposten kann man auch upgraden und weitere kleine Details, die das Gameplay positiv beeinflussen. Gameplay demensprechend gut. Für seine Grafik fande ich es überraschend Ressourcenintensiv, aber naja, sie ist nix super tolles, aber das ist ja bei den meisten eh kein Dealbreaker. Das Sounddesign ist ok, ebenfalls nichts besonderes. Dieses hat mich aber am Meisten irritiert, weil ich nicht Musik, die während Schießereien spielt, erwarte, wenn ich mir meine Menge an Küchenmessern im Lager anschaue und am Ende dann doch Nichts passiert. Insgesamt ein solides 3D Papers Please mit eigenem Charme, was im letzten Viertel der Story ein bisschen an Fahrt verliert, wem das reine Kontrollieren an sich gefällt, wird damit sicherlich keine Probleme haben. Vollpreis finde ich für ~11h Story und einen Endlosmodus + Multiplayer bisschen dolle. Das Spiel kann man sich dafür gut und gerne mal im Sale ziehen. Gibt ne Empfehlung :).
I took all the bribes :D 10/10
I'm sad to mark this as a no, because I love games like this in general! I just found this one tried to do too much, and then everything it did wasn't polished enough to be fun.
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прошёл полностью за повстанцев заняло 11.7ч, полное прохождение за обе стороны по идеи будет 22-23 часа, концовка довольно слабая пришёл по убивал всех и всё и даже не рассказали судьбу главного героя тем кто хочет поиграть мой совет не берите жигули худшая машина по управляемости и в целом по полезности, вы даже на буханке всё успеете и так а по оружию рекомендую автомат (ппш) стандартный пистолет и снайперскую винтовку на ней есть киллкам как в sniper elite итого в целом игра стоит своих денег лучший из симуляторов вообще
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