Paper Dolls: Original / 纸人
Fair · Action · 2019
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $5.09. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 4.9h
- Value
- $1.04/hr
- Reviews
- 84% positive
Buy now or wait
It is 70% off today.
Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Next sale
- Autumn Sale, Oct 1 to 8
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX750Ti or AMD RadeonR7 260x, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
Paper Dolls Original is a first-person horror adventure game steeped in Eastern culture. You act a man who is separated from his daughter after a car accident. When he awakes, he finds himself in a deserted Asian mansion. Find your daughter and unveil a terrifying story buried for a hundred years
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
The lowest price on record is $5.09, set in September 2026. 19 discounts in the 7 years on record. They run about 40 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today's $5.09 at 70 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
Take the discount away and it is a 50. With it, 66.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 3 percent on value. It is pricier than 87 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 88 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Poppy Playtime (free, scores 76) beats it on value, while it beats Secret Neighbor: Hello Neighbor Multiplayer ($19.99, scores 63).
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 7 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written May 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 71 percent of the 894 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 20 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 4.9 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
75% start to 1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
About 19 players at once, as of Sep 24.
Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Gallery Boss section. With the inability to walk faster than a tortoise I've lost patience with the back and forth between shadows as the ghost undoes one for each one I seal. Also the QTE event for A / D does not work. I'd say the game is broken.
Skip this game!! Play paper dolls 2 instead. Paper dolls 1 was somewhat OK but the last 20+ minutes of this game totally sucked, including the ending. The puzzles were extremely difficult, almost impossible. You'll spend more time googling the puzzle solutions than you will playing the game (Skip Skip Skip paper dolls original)
It's a horror game that grips the player more with silence and the sound of footsteps than with jump scares. While there are some shortcomings, I still think it's a game with potential.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Paper Dolls: Original / 纸人 scores 66/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1051310/paper-dolls-originalReviews 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 Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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