Papers, Please
Players on Steam at last update
260
Source: Steam Web API, as of 05:21 UTC on November 8, 2026.
Compared with the highest reading100%
05:00 UTC reading on November 8, 2026: 260, 100% of the highest recorded by Statcade (260 on November 8, 2026, 17 readings since October 17, 2026).
- Rank by players
- #278of 309 Steam games with a player count
- Highest reading
- 260on November 8, 2026, 17 readings
- Copies sold
- 2.3 millionPC
- Metacritic
- 85out of 100
- Release
- Aug 8, 2013
Papers, Please on Statcade: players online on Steam, copies sold, facts and charts.
At a glance
| Developer | Lucas Pope |
|---|---|
| Publisher | 3909 |
| Release | Aug 8, 2013 |
| Platform | PC (Steam) |
| Genre | Puzzle, Simulation, Adventure, Indie |
| Players online on Steam | 260 (as of 05:21 UTC on November 8, 2026) |
| Players at the 05:00 UTC reading | 260 (November 8, 2026, taken at 05:21 UTC) |
| Copies sold | 2.3 million (PC) |
| Metacritic | 85 |
About the game
The description from Steam and the story of the game are available in Italian on the Italian page.
Steam price
Price check of November 8, 2026 on Steam Italy (euros). The lowest price is the lowest one Statcade has seen since it started tracking the game (October 17, 2026), not Steam's full price history; free-to-keep periods do not count.
Speedruns
World records and best times in the main categories of Papers, Please on speedrun.com.
Ending 1 (PC) (new tab)
| Pos. | Player | Time | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Record | tearzed | 3:22,127 (new tab) | |
| 2nd | Pitouu | 3:22,133 (new tab) | |
| 3rd | MartinCaita | 3:22,367 (new tab) |
Ending 2 (new tab)
| Pos. | Player | Time | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Record | fofofo | 18:24,100 (new tab) | |
| 2nd | DJpro39 | 18:31,530 (new tab) | |
| 3rd | HowToCantaloupe | 18:32,433 (new tab) |
Ending 3 (new tab)
| Pos. | Player | Time | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Record | fofofo | 59:05,700 (new tab) | |
| 2nd | Rua_Yamabuki | 59:14,067 (new tab) | |
| 3rd | CookieJar | 59:18,300 (new tab) |
Source: speedrun.com (new tab), license CC BY-NC 4.0 (new tab); data selected and reformatted by Statcade (default category and subcategories, updated on a rotating basis). All records: Speedruns.
Italian sentiment
Share of positive Steam reviews written in Italian, compared with the share across all languages.
- In Italian98% positive reviews924 positive out of 943 reviews
- All languages97.3% positive reviews78,592 positive out of 80,771 reviews
In line with the rest of the world: the difference (+0.7 points) stays below the 10-point threshold.
Source: Steam, user reviews (all purchases), checked on October 18, 2026. What counts is the language the review is written in, not the reviewer's country; “all languages” includes Italian too. All games: Italian sentiment.
When to play to find the most players
Busiest: 21:00–24:00 (on average 399 players) Quietest: 09:00–12:00 (191 on average)
| Time slot | Average players | Compared with the daily average |
|---|---|---|
| 00:00–03:00 | 325 | 111% |
| 03:00–06:00 | 272 | 93% |
| 06:00–09:00 | 195 | 67% |
| 09:00–12:00 quietest | 191 | 65% |
| 12:00–15:00 | 251 | 86% |
| 15:00–18:00 | 325 | 111% |
| 18:00–21:00 | 376 | 129% |
| 21:00–24:00 busiest | 399 | 137% |
Source: Statcade hourly readings from the Steam Web API GetNumberOfCurrentPlayers, since October 18; times in Italian time (CET/CEST).
How we calculate it
Every hour we record the players online on Steam. We convert each reading to Italian time (daylight saving time included), average each hour over all days and then average each 3-hour slot (00–03, 03–06, … 21–24). Hours in which the reading is anomalous for the whole catalogue are excluded. Players come from all over the world, not just Italy: the slot shows how many people are online on Steam at that Italian time.
Data: Wikipedia (en), “Papers, Please”, Wikipedia, Steam.
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