Overtime: Paper Trail

Overtime: Paper Trail is a narrative game about working the night shift at a 24-hour copy shop to pay off a massive debt. You expect trouble from loan sharks, but the documents customers bring in reveal a wider conspiracy. At 3 AM, people are printing bank blueprints, encrypted chemical formulas, occult mantras and hit lists. You are the only person who sees what is happening, and must build a case one copied page at a time.

Find and copy evidence

Each document may be part of a larger puzzle. You can quietly make an extra physical copy or secretly save a digital file, using the shop’s machines to mask your actions. Criminals hide evidence among ordinary papers: a target’s photograph, for example, might be buried in a batch of fake university schedules and electricity bills. You have seconds to identify the evidence, stash it in a hidden compartment and return dummy documents to the customer without revealing that you have read them.

Build your case

Survive until 6:00 AM, then review the fragmented evidence on your corkboard and connect the dots. The case includes questions such as who a corrupt guard works for and what a rogue chemist is building. Once you have pieced the evidence together, choose who to report to the local police.