My Beautiful Paper Smile
Fair · Action · 2021
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
WAIT.
Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 75% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$14.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$3.7475% offFair
- Cost per hour▼
- $3.75/hr
- Reviews▼
- 84% of 427
- Genre rank
- Top 13% Action
Holding it back: Cost per hour, Reviews
Watch this gameOne alert at $3.74 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 4h
- Finish
- 16% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 26
Price and sales
- Sales
- 48 on record
- Typical cut
- 50% off
- Steam low
- $3.74 December 2022
- Sale every
- 38d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 0 now
- Cheaper than
- 13% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 87% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
77% start to 16% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
48 discounts in the 6 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score sits in the top 13 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 87 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 87 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Fran Bow ($14.99, scores 83) and My Friend is a Raven (free, scores 74) both outscore it.
More about My Beautiful Paper Smile
Steam's global achievement data puts about 16 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 4-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. 3 of the 353 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2020 to September 2026.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 31 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Very good artstyle and the story is interesting. However the game itself is mid, 80% of the time it feels like a walking simulator (especially act 4); puzzles are way too easy; the stealth is badly implemented since you have low area of vision you don't really know if you have an enemy near you or not, it may happen that you go in a new room and get immediately caught. Worst part for me is locking lore dialogues...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
for the love of God put controller support in your game As soon as you add controller support. And I'm able to actually play this game to completion I. I will then change my review. But until then. It's staying this way until you add controller support.
There's really no other game like this. Such a unique animation style and world, and what a powerful, emotional journey from the main character. I don't want to spoil anything by writing it down since it's definitely best to go in blind for this one, but please pick this game up when you have the chance. It's not perfect, but so much heart went into making it and it shows.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Welcome, child, to your new home. Here you shall learn the art of perfection. Here you shall learn to smile. Be sure that smile doesn’t fade into sadness, or you will need to run and hide…
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 470 GTX or AMD Radeon 6870 HD, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
My Beautiful Paper Smile scores 51/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1036700/my-beautiful-paper-smileReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 8, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.