Review: Headliner: NoviNews (Nintendo Switch)

Review by Matt S.

Papers, Please is a masterpiece that will endure on for its ability to put you in a position of moral hopelessness. Playing as an immigration official, you need to make sure the right people enter your country, and that those people have the right paperwork. Your family’s well-being depends on this. But then you start hearing the desperate stories of people for whom getting into your country is a life-or-death matter, and the game’s great ability is how effective it is in making you want to break the law to let them in. Headliner: NoviNews tries to do emulate that kind of experience, only by casting you in the role of the editor of a newspaper.

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