I remember having tried the demo/alpha. Seems less rich than Papers, Please but who knows. :P
Yeah, it's almost one 1€ here. That's always a pity seeing an indie game take that route. *shakes head*

10 euros is a bit high indeed, plus why need open GL 2.0 ? yup it certainly does. i got a little dejavu feeling aswell, but papers please had some colors? didnt it? Thats what i thought when i read the discription and watched some playing videos of the alpha version on youtube
but is doe not have to be playing in banan republic settings cause even today in the 2015's we had some things that were left out of the news aswell :D , and who knows what will be left out more. :D
So basically this can fit any setting in any timeperiod, beiing it in the 50s or even in 3000's :D

The game looks interesting but ...

It is a little bit expensive, its very very small : only 52.5 mb?
it has no colors, (i assume the music can be turned of seperately ?)


Processor: 1.8 GHz Processor is a little high for such a simple looking game ?
Memory: 1 GB RAM

Graphics: Open GL 2.0 Compatible Graphics Card ----> why open GL 2.0?

i have : OpenGL Support 3.0 so basically that should work, i did notice that in the past some programs i had that prefered open gl would give problems, so i wait a while for a sale

wishlisted for now

https://www.gog.com/game/punch_club has the same amount of credit: [url=http://www.an-ovel.com/cgi-bin/magog.cgi?ver=671&scp=gdspur&dsp=ipgfsorlcmbaxyzXhDFGHTP0512348&ord=&flt=tcs~punch~&opt=&myf=ThuJan211900332016_empty_ySZQTQ8EoisuV]in its case, base $9.99, UK $10.09, least $3.19 in ex-Soviet countries, most $10.89 in parts of continental Europe.[/url] Probably the UK gets its own region because of Sterling (and our VAT rate?), despite ending up close to the base/USA price.

Make a drinking game out of it.

Each time you reflect on the creeping existential dread of clinging to a dying good in a market economy, praise an economist of your choosing, and take one drink.

Each time you have to lay off an employee to make ends meet, ponder their fate and imagine their next Christmas, like the Cratchit family. Take two drinks.

Each month you successfully afford medical insurance, thumb your nose at cirrhosis, take three drinks, and go to bed for the evening.

FUN!

Do you really have to point that out at every game ?

maybe thats to give the Retro feeling?
i did notice that the last months /years, tons of 8/16 bit games clones were released, little blocky limited color pixels, with the old 70-80s metallic , low quality beeps and music.
But maybe its because my eyes got used to watch clear and bright (no pixelsoup) images that are being used in most modern casual games i own, and maybe they have to re adjust to get used again to watch the old blocky graphics.

Blame Zoidberg :P

In case you care, that's not an accepted definition for the term. "a small nation, especially in Central America, dependent on one crop or the influx of foreign capital." or "a ​small ​country, ​especially in ​South and Central ​America, that is ​poor, ​corrupt, and ​badly ​ruled" are better definitions.

Though I agree that the term certainly sounds like something that should have a soundtrack of Yakety Sax

Yes. Several of the developers and publishers are reading the release threads and they should know why I don't buy their game. Not buying it without telling them why wouldn't send a message.

So... it's a game about ethics in journalism?

Cute:)

What does qualify this as "good old game", if I might ask?
In other words, are there objective criteria for adding brand new games to gog's catalog?

From the looks of it - and a few minutes worth of internet research about this game - I wonder if that's the right place to put it. The visuals are lifted straight from Lucas Pope's Papers Please and the gameplay is, according to a Steam review, a "carbon copy of Pope's earlier gamejam game - The Republia Times".

Add to that the regional pricing, the less than stellar Steam reviews and I'm left to wonder how this particular title even made it through the "curation" system.

Thanks for correcting me, I guess. Although indeed the term should be most used for states in South America, since it is precisely there that bananas are produced, I do believe the term can be also in a more general context in the way I just described. For example, your first definition, "a small nation, [especially in Central America], dependent on one crop or the influx of foreign capital.", other than the Central America part, holds mostly true e.g. for Greece, as it is rather small in comparison to others, and in the 19th century it did mostly depend on raisin exports (the raisin crops in France had been destroyed in the 1860s by some insect and Greece took over for a while until France started again producing raisins, which caused the Greek raisins to remain unwanted and caused a mini financial crisis), and it is nowadays indeed dependent on foreign capital, although the state is doing its "best" to dissuade everyone from ever investing in Greece again. As for your second definition, "a ​small ​country, ​especially in ​South and Central ​America, that is ​poor, ​corrupt, and ​badly ​ruled", again, other than the location part, holds true for Greece, as it is indeed small, corrupt and badly-ruled-and will become poor real soon, the way its debt is going(not that it is rich or anything right now).... Ergo, Greece at least is indeed a banana republic.
Anyways, I'm sorry I brought politics into this (hope you weren't offended) but I just wanted to say why I thought the term still applies in that case. Also,fyi, I haven't heard of this Yakety Sax -maybe I should check it out...
edit-turns out I had heard of that music before, just didn't know the title.. But still I don't see what that kind of music has to do with anything...