In the past year, several bright and successful successors of the iconic Papers, Please have emerged. We spoke with representatives of Darts Games, Brigada Games, Trioskaz, and Solarsuit Games about the popularity of this new direction and the challenges faced during development.

It took just a month for the horror game from Russian indie studio Trioskaz to reach a half-million copies sold.

On the evening of September 15, 2025, the Russian indie studio Trioskaz, alongside publisher Critical Reflex, released No, I’m not a Human—a horror game about creatures that mimic human appearance and attempt to infiltrate real people’s homes. The Steam audience received the project very positively.

No, I’m not a Human — a horror about an invasion of dangerous creatures disguised as humans. It was developed by the indie team Trioskaz. As noted by Simon Carless, the founder of GameDiscoverCo, by June 16, the number of wishlists for the title had reached 502,928.