Papers, Please has long been one of my favorite games of all time, so the concept of Monthly Dystopia instantly appealed to me. This might not be quite as groundbreaking as Papers, Please, but it gets a lot closer than I would have expected!
As the name suggests, Monthly Dystopia casts you as a drone working for the propaganda department of a 1984-style authoritarian government. Your daily grind is disrupted when a local elderly care center is burned down and your grandfather comes to live with you for a month. Before long, you find yourself caught up in a plot with local resistance forces that could end in you escaping this broken country—if you survive.
Seeing as a big part of the game is focused on the drudgery of day-to-day life in a dystopia, the gameplay isn't always edge-of-your-seat stuff. I spent a lot of time filing away documents at work, cooking soup for grandpa, and making trips to the local market to spend my very limited money on essentials. But those boring tasks make the resistance scheming even more exciting when it breaks up the monotony.
Monthly Dystopia also deserves big props for its lovely black-and-white art style. The dull visuals play right into the themes of the game, and infrequent bursts of unsettling soundtrack also add to the atmosphere. It's great stuff and helps make this one depressing authoritarian regime that's well worth experiencing for yourself.
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