Paper Beast
BANGER · Strategy · 2020
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $1.99, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Jul 2020.
- Length
- 3.1h 5.8h to 100%
- Value
- $0.64/hr
- Reviews
- 94% of 712 positive
Full price
Today
Watch this gameAlready a BANGER on sale. Pick a lower price.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
About the game
An exploration and adventure game about wildlife sprung from the depths of the internet. An unknown power seems to upset its balance. Join forces with exotic creatures to unravel the mysteries of this universe.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970. Windows only.
The value story
March 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $1.99. It has been discounted 63 times in the 6 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 65 percent, about 5 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. The nearest things to it, СИМУЛЯТОР ОДИНОЧЕСТВА В РУССКОЙ ДЕРЕВНЕ ($0.69, scores 45) and Kayak VR: Mirage ($22.99, scores 38), are both worse buys on this math.
The math says it holds its tier up to $6.07.
More about Paper Beast
This site sampled 328 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written July 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 87 percent of the 126 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 24 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
77% 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
- Players online
- 2 when we last checked, on Oct 2, 05:52 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Wonderful. One of those rare completely different games. Good puzzles, unique graphics and just all around great game. Very pretty and weirdly emotional.
1 more review
This is a game that should be mandatory for all VR users. It was an experience that I'll never forget, and if I do, I'll happily go through it again.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Paper Beast scores 86/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1232570/paper-beastReviews 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 Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.