Comparison

Space Papers vs Papers please

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Space Papers

Become a galactic border agent tasked with checking traveler documents and identifying illegal aliens and interdimensional parasites. Earn points to upgrade equipment and unlock new abilities to protect the galaxy from invasion.

Highlights
  • Intergalactic border agent simulation
  • Check traveler papers and identify threats
  • Arrest illegal aliens and parasites
  • Upgrade equipment and unlock abilities
  • Offline gameplay
Features
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Welcome to the Intergalactic Customs Department! As a galactic planetary border agent, you'll be tasked with protecting the galaxy against bad paperwork, illegal aliens (literally), and the greatest threat of all - a transdimensional intergalactic Parasite! They are the main galactic threat and will do anything for universal domination. How good are you at identifying and arresting them? Play Space Papers: Planet’s Border and prove yourself the best intergalactic officer to protect the galaxy against the secret invasion. MISSION: INTERGALACTIC AIRPORT SECURITY As an officer of the intergalactic border patrol, your mission is only one: keep the space airport security. Check all the traveler's papers, please, and stop The Parasites from dominating the galaxy! The more enemies you can arrest, the more points you earn to upgrade equipment, the space airport scanner and even unlock new abilities and planets. Grab your space suit, prepare your intergalactic equipment, and secure the planet's border! TARGET: THE PARASITES The main threat to the planet's border security and the galaxy, The Parasites wants to dominate the universe. As a border patrol officer, check all the traveler's papers, please, and find them. They can use dangerous objects, like bananas... THAT'S RIGHT, BANANAS! Use the space airport scanner and secure the planet border. The Parasites must be arrested as soon as possible! Download Space Papers: Planet’s Border now and keep galaxy security. *Space Papers: Planet’s Border is a free offline game. However, the game has purchases of extra features and add-on packs that are optional for gameplay.

About

Papers please

A doorman horror game where you must verify visitors to an apartment building. Decide whether to let them in or turn them away based on their identity documents and suspicious behavior. Earn money to unlock new buildings and face increasingly clever fakes.

Highlights
  • Verify visitor identities
  • Inspect identity documents
  • Listen to visitor stories
  • Build and upgrade apartment blocks
  • Collect character catalog
  • One-handed mobile play
Features
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Someone is knocking. Before you touch that lock, ask yourself: is it really them? Let Them In? is a doorman horror game. You run the night shift of a crumbling apartment building where doppelgangers knock on the door wearing your tenants' faces. Your job: verify every visitor and decide — let them in, turn them away, or worse. HOW A SHIFT WORKS - Watch the peephole as each visitor walks up to your door - Talk to them: name, phone number, their story - Demand the identity document and compare every field - Dial their number on the lobby phone and see if the line matches - Smell the air, check lip color, watch for anything… off - Complete the checklist and make the call: approve or refuse Every correct decision pays. Refuse a real human and the neighborhood turns on you. Let a doppelganger inside and you will hear what happens to the tenants through the walls. BUILD YOUR BLOCK Earn money on every shift, unlock new buildings across the map, fill apartments with verified tenants and grow from one creepy lobby to a whole district. New days bring new tools — and smarter fakes. A CATALOG OF FACES Every character you meet is registered in your catalog: the honest, the suspicious and the things pretending to be people. Collect them all — if you dare to open the door long enough. Inspired by the paranoia of document-checking classics, tuned for one-handed mobile play. Short shifts, heavy dread, no filler. Would YOU open the door? Privacy Policy: https://aplicativossociaiseconsultas.blogspot.com/2026/07/privacy-policy-let-them-in.html Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Space Papers4 screens
Papers please4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Papers please at 4.5 against Space Papers's 3.8. Papers please also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 6) and update cadence (every 9 days vs every 2 months). Space Papers's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and monetization model there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Space Papers sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Papers please asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Papers please holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 14 and 19 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 40% of Space Papers's written reviews are positive against 33% of Papers please's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Space Papers ships an update every 2 months, Papers please every 9 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Space Papers versus Papers please: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpace PapersPapers please
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.8 (14 ratings)4.5 (19 ratings) — better
Positive reviews40.0% of reviews — better33.3% of reviews
Number of ratings1419 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 9 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size273 MB105 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperTapps Games - Jogos EletronicosJESSICA NASCIMENTO

Customer experience

Space Papers

All ratings14 ratings
Positive57.1%
Neutral35.7%
Negative7.1%
Written reviews25 reviews
Positive40.0%
Neutral24.0%
Negative36.0%

Papers please

All ratings8 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative66.7%

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Space Papers

One-time6
  • Hard Currency Pack 01$1.99
  • Hard Currency Pack 02$4.99
  • Hard Currency Pack 03$9.99
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  • Hard Currency Pack 04$19.99
  • Hard Currency Pack 05$49.99
  • Hard Currency Pack 06$99.99
None

Papers please

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Space Papers free?
Space Papers is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Papers please free?
Papers please is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Space Papers or Papers please?
Papers please is rated higher. Space Papers averages 3.8 out of 5 from 14 ratings, while Papers please averages 4.5 from 19 ratings.
Do Space Papers or Papers please have ads?
Papers please shows ads; Space Papers does not.
Which is updated more often, Space Papers or Papers please?
Space Papers ships an update every 2 months, and Papers please every 9 days. Most recently, Space Papers was updated on October 24, 2026 and Papers please on October 24, 2026.

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