Counterfeit inspection: authenticity handbook and magnifier

About this game

Developer: Questing Goose Studio · Publisher: tinyBuild · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Pixel art · Screen type: Encyclopedia / Codex

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What to study

Papers Please run through a reference book: the game prints its detection rules as an official handbook - real specimens, labelled genuine and incorrect - and then hands you the same five categories as a checklist with a Confront button at the bottom. The magnifier is not a minigame gimmick but the literal tool the handbook assumes ('Utilise color card to compare'). Every element teaches the verb: compare, tick, confront. Frame at about 0:10 in the Release Date + Demo Launch Trailer (Steam), a scene-change survivor (v0_0005 at 10.25s) inspected at full resolution in this run.

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

side-panel detail-panel checklist modal-dialog

Components

Parts on screen.

Document Grid

Screen inventory

• left, the Hemingway Cigarette Authenticity Handbook as a printed commission document: Lettering Issues with three specimen rows (Genuine / Incorrect Font / Incorrect Spelling), Logo Issues and Color Issues with genuine-vs-incorrect swatch pairs, Security Seal Issues, and the dry footer 'The differences should be obvious at a glance.'
• right, the inspection tray: the customer's pack under a large magnifying glass enlarging its logo, with the Counterfeit Check panel beneath - five tick boxes (Lettering, Color, Seal, Logo, Box Issues) and a Confront button
• the customer waits behind the counter at centre; the stock grid runs along the bottom; the handbook and the checklist use the same five issue names, so the reference document is the form you fill in

Top 3 colors

#3a2c38 22%#5f6869 22%#c4c2ae 18%

Top three palette colors by share. The remaining colors make up the rest.

Source and credit

© Questing Goose Studio / tinyBuild, Probably Stolen - Cyberpunk Shopkeeper Sim screenshot: Probably Stolen - Release Date + Demo Launch Trailer and Announcement Trailer videos (Steam), shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by tinyBuild.

Source tier 2 (publisher-released) · screenshot: Steam store page · Steam page

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-21. verified 2026-10-22: scene-change survivor v0_0005.png (10.25s) inspected visually at full resolution in this run; keeper file authenticity-handbook.png is a byte copy of that survivor

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