Papers, Please

Papers, Please

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All Endings, Sorted
By Charly
This guide references all numbered endings, sorted by type for better readability, and quickly explains how to get them. When you achieve a numbered ending for the first time, the corresponding grey square in the upper right corner of the story menu will permanently turn to white. This guide also describes non-numbered endings, although they give no achievement or whatsoever. Obviously, spoilers ensue.
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Carelessness endings (1-2)
  • Ending 1: run into debt
  • Ending 2: let all your family die by not paying enough food, heat and medicine
Arrested by M. Vonel endings (3-4)

M. Vonel is an East Grestin Division special investigator working for the Office of Investigation under the Ministry of Information. He can end the game by arresting you on two occasions.
  • Ending 3 (Too Honest achievement): give him a document from EZIC (day 12)
  • Ending 4: throw Stepheni Graire out (day 14) after accepting a huge bribe (end of either day 12 or 13)
Illegal shot endings (5-10)
From day 16, each terrorist attack gives you the opportunity to shoot with a tranquilizer gun (and also a sniper rifle from day 23). Shooting at least one terrorist grants you 20 credits, and shooting without hurting anyone (even if the attack is finished) grants you 10 credits. If you shoot anyone else, you will be arrested and the game will end immediately.

Target
Weapon
Ending number
Penalty
EZIC reaction
random entrant
sniper
5
death
random entrant
tranquilizer
6
forced labour
guard
sniper
7
death
guard
tranquilizer
8
death
man in red (day 23)
sniper
9 (Hired Rifle achievement)
death
moves family to safety in Obristan
man in red (day 23)
tranquilizer
10
forced labour
moves family to safety in Obristan
Arrested by Dimitri endings (11-12)
Dimitri is the divisional authority of East Grestin operations from Ministry of Admission and your supervisor. He visits you each 10 days to report how many citations you have received and evaluate your work at the border. He can end the game by having you sentenced to forced labour on two occasions.
  • Ending 11: have something illegal hanging on the wall when he visits you on both his second and third visits (days 20 and 30)
  • Ending 12: detain Shae Piersovska (day 25)
Fleeing to Obristan endings (16, 18)
You will be given the opportunity to flee to Obristan from day 29; each fleeing person will cost you 25 credits and one confiscated Obristan passport.
  • Ending 18 (Snowier Pastures achievement :-): all the surviving family makes it to Obristan
  • Ending 16: some of the surviving family is left behind
Having your sister arrested on day 21 is unavoidable and won't prevent you from getting ending 18. Furthermore, if you don't adopt her daughter, she will NOT count as a member of your family. Dead relatives won't prevent you either from getting ending 18, unless you let everybody die (ending 2).
Day 31 specific endings (13-15, 17, 19-20)
At the end of day 31, two EZIC agents kill all the guards and the upper one tries to bomb the border wall, while the lower one may throw a grenade at you if you attack the upper one or have completed less than 4 EZIC tasks (see below). This attack may result in 6 different endings, depending on the number of EZIC tasks you have completed and wether or not you defend the wall by shooting the agents. However, according to your personal situation, you can still prevent these endings by being killed on the job or triggering a previously mentioned ending (1, 2, 5, 6, 16 or 18).
EZIC tasks completed
Wall status
Ending number
Government
EZIC status
0
intact
20 (Glory to Arstotzka achievement, Endless mode code :-)
grateful
mute
1-3
intact
17
executes you
mute
0-3
blown
13
arrests you, sends family back to village
mute
4-5
intact
14
executes you
displeased and weak
4-5
blown albeit defended
15
overthrown
displeased and strong
4-5
blown and not defended
19 (Member of the Order achievement :-)
overthrown
grateful and strong
Non-numbered endings: die on the job
You can die on the job on several occasions. If it happens, the game will end immediatly and cut back to the opening menu with a flash of light (no ending number, no achievement etc.).
  • Day 15: fail to disarm the bomb
  • Day 20: touch the poison powder
  • Day 21: let the motorcyclist attack your booth with a grenade
  • Day 31: let the EZIC agent attack your booth with a grenade (he won't if you have completed enough EZIC tasks and don't attack)
EZIC tasks
If you complete at least 4 EZIC tasks, they will treat you as an ally on day 31: an EZIC messenger will come as the second entrant to warn you about the upcoming attack, and unless you shoot an EZIC agent, they will let you survive the attack and make you a member of the order after overthrowing the government. There are 5 EZIC tasks, which means they allow you to fail up to one task:
  • Allow Mikhail Saratov (day 11)
  • Allow Stepheni Graire (day 14)
  • Allow Marie Escalli (day 17)
  • Poison Khaled Istom (day 20)
  • Allow Kordon Kallo, but confiscate his passport and give it to an EZIC agent (day 27)
Shooting the man in red (day 23) does NOT count as an EZIC task for day 31 since it will lead immediately to ending 9 or 10. Accepting a huge bribe at the end of day 12 or 13 does not count either as a task.
9 Comments
idie4mista Dec 7, 2022 @ 9:28am 
Tip: when going for ending 16, Remember to get only 4 passports, and be sure to not adopt the niece. This will ensure that your mother in law is left behind. Why? because Fuck Her that's why!
Charly  [author] Nov 2, 2022 @ 4:33pm 
@mateusz Are you suggesting that having any single family member die will prevent you from getting the Snowier pastures achievement? Since almost all the sources I consulted specifically state the contrary, I can't just trust you on this.
Randommanon_internet Nov 1, 2022 @ 12:15pm 
The Snowier pastures achievement only works with whole family
ZzCristianzZ Mar 30, 2022 @ 12:19pm 
Thank You Bro :longhaul:
hypoxia ⛧ Dec 30, 2020 @ 11:41am 
so true :steamthumbsup:
Usuário de Waterloose Dec 22, 2020 @ 10:48am 
thanks my man:steamthis:
tf2 pomson enjoyer #FIXVACPLS Nov 12, 2020 @ 5:05pm 
VV idk
SantaClaus Aug 16, 2020 @ 1:44pm 
I got ending 18 but no Snowier pastures? i even got the game to tell me "ending 18"
LemonPie Jan 10, 2020 @ 9:39am 
Zura
Thanks:musicnote: