Inspection games where you check papers and catch fakes

Inspection games give you a desk, a rule book and a line of people, and every yes or no has a cost. Papers, Please made the genre famous in 2013, and Quarantine Zone: The Last Check sold more than 500,000 copies in its first week in January 2026. Here are the best ones and what each asks you to catch.

The classics

Papers, Please (Lucas Pope, 2013). Be a border officer in the fictional country of Arstotzka. Check papers against rules that change every day, and feed your family on the pay. On PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad and Android.
That's Not My Neighbor (Nacho Sama, 2024). Work the door of an apartment building and check every resident for doppelgangers. Wrong face, wrong ID, wrong answer.
Contraband Police (Crazy Rocks Studios, 2023). A first-person border post in Acaristan, a fictional communist country, in 1981. Check documents, search for contraband, chase smugglers who run. On PC, plus PS5 and Xbox Series since November 2025.

New in 2025 and 2026

The best inspection games add one new rule each day. Learn the rules, then watch for the person who almost follows them.

No, I'm Not a Human (Trioskaz, September 15, 2025). Answer the door at night during a solar disaster and decide which visitors are human. Let in the wrong one and you pay for it. On PC, with PS5, Xbox Series and Switch versions planned for 2027.
Quarantine Zone: The Last Check (Brigada Games, January 12, 2026). Run an evacuation checkpoint during a zombie outbreak and check every survivor for signs of infection. Published by Devolver Digital, on PC and, since July 2026, Xbox Series.
Security 51 (Alawar, August 12, 2026). Check staff clearance at an Area 51 checkpoint while the protocols keep changing. Inspired by Papers, Please and SCP paranoia. On PC.

Inspection games on Roam

Roam is a free iPhone app with desk-and-decision games like these. Pass or Purge is a border checkpoint: check the rules, check the traveller, choose. Airport Security Scanner sends every bag across your screen, and nothing gets past you. Stamp Or Sink is a wartime cipher clerk puzzle: decode the message, choose the stamp, live with it.

Repair & Report is a dystopian repair shop: fix the phone, or report the owner. Don't Feed Them puts you on a night shift at a shawarma kiosk, where some customers are wrong.

Play it on Roam

Make your own checkpoint game with Roam

Describe the desk, the rules and the fake you are hunting. Roam makes it playable, and you can add a new rule each day by asking.

Try: "checkpoint at my school gate, check student IDs, one of my friends is an impostor every day, 5 days, the rules change each morning"

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Questions people ask

What games are like Papers, Please?

That's Not My Neighbor, Contraband Police, No, I'm Not a Human and Quarantine Zone: The Last Check all build on checking people against rules.

Is Papers, Please on phone?

Yes. Lucas Pope's game came to iPhone and Android in 2022, and it is also on iPad and PC.

Who made That's Not My Neighbor?

Nacho Sama, who released it in 2024. You check residents at a door and turn away the doppelgangers.

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