Papers Please

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Godville, Aug 28 2026

Hey there, deities with undocumented heroes! Not long ago Godville turned 16 — old enough to drive and fake responsibility. And yet in sixteen years, not a single hero has ever been issued so much as a library card. Let’s fix that with paperwork — nothing says “grown-up” quite like a stamped form.

Meet the ID
Today the newly founded Godville Bureau of Heroic Affairs is rolling out official ID for every hero. Behold the beauty:


A hero, finally presentable in high society — share accordingly.

The more decorated your hero’s record, the more stamps and marks crowd the pages — bureaucracy forgets nothing and spares no one. The IDs update automatically with every fresh achievement of your hero, and he will happily announce each update in the diary.

Impatient gods can fast-track the process: just spend a few invites at the Bureau to get a fresh card any time. Or grab a temporary ID in a minute — it looks less grand, but it’s free, and you can try it right now.

Mobile Profile Refresh
Since IDs live on hero personal pages, we used the opportunity to refresh those mobile pages too. Their design, unloved and unchanged for literally fifteen years, finally isn’t an eyesore anymore.

New Crosswords
The newspaper crossword has been running on the same two dozen grid layouts for so long that solving one had become muscle memory. That streak is over — the grid pool just tripled, so expect some unfamiliar-looking crosswords in the coming days.

Comments (44)
DeepDishPizzatron 5 Aug 28 2026 15:29
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Thank you

Thorbjoern 7 Aug 28 2026 15:32
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Finally my hero can show his id when the guard stops him.

Cinisi 7 Aug 28 2026 16:52
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This is so cool!!

Ab-Ashanti 4 Aug 28 2026 17:31
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O! THIS is fun!

(And thank-you for updatig mbl users’ experience too!)

Octavia221 4 Aug 28 2026 19:45
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Papers, please! Due props to another fun game 😂. Can hardly wait for my hero to be processed for his I.D. Thanks.

Impression-sunrise Aug 28 2026 20:17
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Thanks devs!

Sophie The Woo 5 Aug 28 2026 20:21
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Thanks Devs

Orgm 6 Aug 28 2026 21:05
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thanks for giving me a good photo to frame in my desk.

Eicca 6 Aug 28 2026 22:06
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I didn’t know I missed this so much!

NebulousOne 7 Aug 28 2026 22:40
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Wow! A real ID. I can’t wait to be able to get into all the bars and taverns throughout Godville! Thanks Devs!

Bibliophile 4 Aug 28 2026 22:48
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Very cool ID papers! My heroine is all grown now. Thanks, devs!

Raven 7 Aug 28 2026 23:03
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That’s wonderful!

The Alpha - Omega 6 Aug 29 2026 00:07
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Yessssss

Thirteenth Flower 6 Aug 29 2026 00:47
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Happy sweet 16!

Zeddie 4 Aug 29 2026 01:30
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Sweet! Now we can illegally drink and delay our quests

Cham Almighty 7 Aug 29 2026 04:18
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What a delightful update!

Cotzbalam 7 Aug 29 2026 06:41
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That looks beautiful! And it comes fully laminated, cool! Thanks so much for this ♥️

Pwned Yours 5 Aug 29 2026 11:18
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Excellent update! Shame my lv 74 pet diededed a few months short of the ID feature, would’ve been epic 🥲

Akashi-sama 4 Aug 29 2026 12:56
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Woah, looks amazing!

Jimbob64 7 Aug 29 2026 17:52
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Nice. This implies that all this time they’ve been piloting these giant arks and running businesses without so much as an ID. Not that anything will make a hero accountable to anybody but the person with the god remote, and even then only sometimes.

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