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The office at night: the window over the square, the Supreme Leader's portrait, the calendar on month 1, the clock at twenty to midnight, and the door.

A desk game of decisions

Paranoic Propaganda

Forty-eight months at the desk.

The Leader is dead. You were the safe choice.

You rule a small state under a Supreme Leader, one document at a time, against the light moving across the room - and somewhere in the paperwork is the truth about the people your predecessor erased, and about you.

Coming soon on SteamThe trailerFree demo: 13 months

The trailer

The palace on the morning of the funeral, the Leader's portrait hung under its spire.

The Leader is dead. You were the safe choice.

Soon on YouTube

Every picture in it is the game itself, recorded, and nothing comes from after its first months. Music and titles; no speech.

MINISTRY OF INFORMATIONNO. 0001

THE LEADER IS DEAD

IN SHORT: You were the safe choice. Now the pile is yours.

Every morning the pile is waiting: ministries, petitions, ledgers, the state newspaper's draft with its marker in the tray. Every document costs daylight to open and more to read closely, and the small print is where things hide. Approve, deny, strike a word, let it decide itself at sunset - every stamp costs someone, and nothing says where a consequence came from when it arrives months later.

The red telephone rings when the Supreme Leader wants something. The square below the window answers what you sign, the same day. Your advisors want things from you; so does the old woman who brings your tea. And the files in the archive were never meant to be opened.

STAMPED: Read it

Stamped APPROVED

At the desk

Everything on it does something, and all of it costs daylight.

The stamps

The dead leader's two stamps, set down in your tray on the first morning: APPROVED in green, DENIED in red. A plain yes or no takes one of them. The rest of the pile asks for more.

MINISTRY OF WORKSNO. 2207

Petition: Road Survey, Western Reclamation

IN SHORT: A petition asks to repair the road to a village that is on no map.

A petition from the Western Reclamation requests that a road be resurveyed and repaired 'to the old village above the second ford'. The clerk handling it has noted that there is no village above the second ford on any current map, and has asked whether the petition should be returned as erroneous.

A yes or a no: bring the APPROVED or the DENIED stamp down on this page.

The red telephone

It rings when the Supreme Leader wants something. You can let it ring. Not for long.

The newspaper

The State Herald's draft comes up every week with a black marker in the tray. Strike what must not be printed - and nothing else: a page that is more black than print reads as fear.

THE STATE HERALDDRAFT EDITION

Spring Sowing Begins

DIRECTIVE - EDITION OF MONTH 3

Strike before it is printed: "eleven work"

Strike nothing else: a page that is more black than print reads as fear.

Click a word to black it out; click it again to bring it back.

The state map

Drevnia and its neighbours: Marenia across the southern border, Velikor, the Supreme Leader's land, to the north. Rest the pointer on a region for what your ministries report of it, and send your agents south.

The evenings

When the building empties, the evening is yours, for what it is worth: a walk in the palace gardens, a quiet drink alone, tomorrow's routing slips taken to bed, an hour in the kitchen with the old woman.

The record of months

Every month is kept. Go back to any morning and try again without losing the line you lived; play three reigns side by side, and after an ending, hand a successor what you left.

THE RECORD OF MONTHS1 LINE, 6 MORNINGS
  1. MONTH126.10 13:3312,000
  2. MONTH226.10 13:3314,159
  3. MONTH326.10 13:3314,522
  4. MONTH426.10 13:3316,687
  5. MONTH526.10 13:3318,323
  6. MONTH626.10 13:3320,766

MONTH 6. This is the month on your desk now.

From the Ministry of Information

Every morning the Ministry of Information puts up a poster, chosen by the state of affairs - forty-eight of them to collect.

  • A poster of a rubber stamp coming down on a page: EVERY STAMP BUILDS THE NATION.
  • A poster of an open book under a red star: READ. OBEY. BUILD.
  • A poster of a tractor in a field at sunrise: SOW TODAY, REAP TOMORROW.
  • A poster of an eye over the city at night: VIGILANCE IS LOYALTY.

From the desk

Pictures from the demo, in this page's language.

1 of 8The desk in the morning: the pile of documents on the left, the State of Affairs on the wall, a page from the Palace Administration open in the middle, the red telephone and the green lamp on the right.

The desk in the morning: the pile of documents on the left, the State of Affairs on the wall, a page from the Palace Administration open in the middle, the red telephone and the green lamp on the right.

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Four languages

English, Romanian, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese: the interface and every word of the text, in each of them. The game opens in the language of your Steam account, and OPTIONS, LANGUAGE changes it at any time.

The first 13 months, free

The demo is the beginning of the game: the same desk, from the funeral into the second year. Censor the newspaper, answer the red telephone, approve or deny, and watch the square below the window answer what you sign. It stops after month 13.

  • 13 months at the desk, from the funeral into the second year
  • A newspaper to censor, the red telephone, the square below the window
  • A guided first day, and help for everything on the desk
  • In English, Romanian, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese

The full game goes on for four years, to thirty-nine endings. The demo keeps its months apart, so the full game begins fresh.

Coming soon on Steam

THE DEMO ENDS HERE.

THE REST IS WAITING

The pile is waiting

Paranoic Propaganda is coming to Steam, for Windows. Wishlist it, and Steam will tell you the day it opens.

Coming soon on Steam