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Paper Trail

Newfangled Games · 2024-05-21

SteamGOGPlayStation StoreMicrosoft Store

AdventureCasualIndieStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: May 21, 2024 (Mac), May 21, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), May 21, 2024 (PlayStation 4), May 21, 2024 (Xbox One), May 21, 2024 (Xbox Series X|S), May 17, 2024 (Android)

Paper Trail is a top-down puzzle adventure about leaving home, set in a foldable, paper world.

95%
positive of 991 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
85/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
71/100
IGDB user rating (12 ratings)
4.42★
PlayStation Store rating (130 ratings)
6h
time to beat (IGDB)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$5.99
steam price (US)
Paper Trail is a 2024 puzzle video game developed by Newfangled Games and published by Netflix and Newfangled Games. The game follows Paige, a woman who leaves her home town and journeys to university in the city, as she moves through a series of puzzle screens. The player can fold each screen like a sheet of paper origami-style, flipping the back of the page to create new paths. The game progressively adds elements to the puzzles that make the puzzles more complex, such as movable platforms, non-rectangular sections, or items that block movement or folding.

Health check

Healthy
  • · 244 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~31/week).
  • · Review velocity up 56% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 13% of 29,569 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 20k–45k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 991 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Steam$3.99-80%
GOG$19.99
Microsoft Store$19.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $2.99 at Steam (2026-01-09) · bundled 8×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 26 of 38 observed days · $17.00 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
858520242026Week of 2024-05-01: 62 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 85 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 2 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$19.99$3.992026-08-132026-10-162026-08-13 — best price $5.992026-08-14 — best price $5.992026-09-11 — best price $5.992026-09-12 — best price $5.992026-09-13 — best price $5.992026-09-14 — best price $19.992026-09-15 — best price $19.992026-09-16 — best price $5.992026-09-17 — best price $5.992026-09-18 — best price $5.992026-09-19 — best price $5.992026-09-20 — best price $5.992026-09-21 — best price $5.992026-09-22 — best price $5.992026-09-23 — best price $5.992026-09-24 — best price $5.992026-09-25 — best price $5.992026-09-26 — best price $5.992026-09-27 — best price $5.992026-09-28 — best price $5.992026-09-29 — best price $5.992026-09-30 — best price $5.992026-10-01 — best price $5.992026-10-02 — best price $3.992026-10-03 — best price $5.992026-10-04 — best price $3.992026-10-05 — best price $5.992026-10-06 — best price $5.992026-10-07 — best price $19.992026-10-08 — best price $19.992026-10-09 — best price $19.992026-10-10 — best price $19.992026-10-11 — best price $19.992026-10-12 — best price $19.992026-10-13 — best price $19.992026-10-14 — best price $19.992026-10-15 — best price $19.992026-10-16 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

3162026-07-18 — 19 pageviews2026-07-21 — 14 pageviews2026-07-24 — 18 pageviews2026-07-27 — 16 pageviews2026-07-30 — 12 pageviews2026-08-02 — 28 pageviews2026-08-05 — 16 pageviews2026-08-08 — 17 pageviews2026-08-11 — 15 pageviews2026-08-14 — 17 pageviews2026-08-17 — 14 pageviews2026-08-20 — 7 pageviews2026-08-23 — 23 pageviews2026-08-26 — 14 pageviews2026-08-29 — 15 pageviews2026-09-01 — 15 pageviews2026-09-04 — 20 pageviews2026-09-07 — 19 pageviews2026-09-10 — 26 pageviews2026-09-13 — 23 pageviews2026-09-16 — 25 pageviews2026-09-19 — 13 pageviews2026-09-22 — 13 pageviews2026-09-25 — 15 pageviews2026-09-28 — 12 pageviews2026-10-01 — 19 pageviews2026-10-04 — 9 pageviews2026-10-07 — 14 pageviews2026-10-10 — 12 pageviews2026-10-13 — 22 pageviews2026-10-14 — 11 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

35
achievements tracked
87%
earned "Fold Over a New Leaf"
22.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportAdjustable Text SizeCamera ComfortColor AlternativesCustom Volume ControlsPlayable without Timed InputDualShock Controller SupportDualShock Controller Support1 DLC

12 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Traditional Chinese, Polish, Spanish - Latin America, Turkish

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2024-06-19 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)95220%35
PS5 (PlayStation)23744%35
Switch (Nintendo)1890%0
Xbox Series, Xbox One (Xbox)1079%34
PS4 (PlayStation)2157%35
Steam (Steam)0—18

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

2DCozyIndieCasualNaturePuzzleCartoonSokobanColorfulTop-Down

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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