The Game Census
纸境英雄 Papercraft cover art

纸境英雄 Papercraft

Overture · Shenzhen Tanyu Interactive Entertainment Co., Ltd. · 2019-04-11

Steam

AdventureIndieRPGStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric, Side view

Releases: TBD (Mac), Apr 25, 2019 (iOS), Apr 11, 2019 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Papercraft is an independent game that beautifully combines Rouguelike, TBS and DBG elements. Heroes from legends holding different cards battle in TBS style. How to play the game is entirely up to you.

85%
positive of 300 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$17.99
steam price (US)

"In Papercraft, you will play the protagonist in a virtual fantasy world within a boardgame which you are playing against the Queen in the reality. You solve mysteries inside and outside the game through step by step battles and explorations, weaving your own story and ending."(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 8 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 27% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (81 reviews).
  • · Top 27% of 24,653 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 7.5k–18k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 300 total reviews — how this is computed.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
666620192026Week of 2019-01-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 66 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam CloudFamily Sharing2 DLC

3 supported languages: Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, English

Post-launch support: 2 DLC released, first 2019-06-25, latest 2019-07-30 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1721%92

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

Player tags

RPGAnimeIndieStrategyAdventureCard GameRogue-likeRogue-lite

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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