by march 2014, pope stated that he was "kind of sick to death" of "papers, please", in that he wanted to continue to focus on more smaller games that would only take a few months of time to create and release, and had already spent far too much in his mind on this one. he expected to keep supporting "papers, please" and its ports, but had no plans to expand the game or release downloadable content, but does not rule out revisiting the arstotzka setting again in a future game.