P.P.SH

P.P.SH is a multiplayer first-person shooter set in Albania under Enver Hoxha’s communist regime. You play as either a foreign agent seeking to undermine the regime or an Albanian patriot, with each side pursuing its own objectives. Missions include infiltrating facilities, fighting enemy forces and coordinating with other players to provoke a rebellion.

Albania under Hoxha

The game’s setting draws on the country’s isolation after Hoxha’s government broke ties with the Soviet Union and later China. Foreign intelligence agencies, including the CIA and other Western powers, send covert agents and paratroopers into Albania to sabotage infrastructure, gather intelligence and incite uprisings. They face the Sigurimi, the regime’s secret police, as well as the surveillance of the communist government.

Albania’s mountains and rugged terrain form the backdrop for clandestine operations, while isolated villages serve as centers of resistance. The story describes a population living under repression and fear, with a desire for freedom.

The Lushnja operation

A separate account in the game’s description begins in 1945, when Albania’s communist party took power. It tells of wealthy people being murdered or forced abroad, their property confiscated and their families jailed. Years later, three armed men trained abroad are mistakenly dropped near Lushnja, far from the capital, intending to kill Enver Hoxha.

The men dress casually and head toward the nearest city. At a beach, they encounter a two-person police patrol and kill both officers with a silenced Scorpion, taking their guns and backpack. They then meet another patrol: one officer is in uniform, while the other is wearing shorts and fishing. The uniformed officer raises his gun and is shot; the fisherman remains confused and says he is there to fish. The men leave him alive, tie his arm with wire and force him to walk with them toward a train station. The account ends as they reach the station.