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Gabrielle Zevin's novel, "Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow" has a character develop a simple game called (I think) "Factory" where you're working in a factory and then it turns out that its WW2 and you're making equipment for the Nazis.

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Yes! The game was apparently inspired by an experimental board game called Train. I like Papers Please more because it doesn’t trick you into thinking that you’re doing something good.

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The game in Zevin’s book was called ‘Solution.’ I thought of this too as I read the description of Papers, Please.

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