Paper Planet

Paper Planet

Fair · Roguelike · 2023

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

BUY IT.

Fair at $5.99, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Aug 2023. Buy it now if you want it.

Length
3.2h
Value
$1.87/hr
Reviews
84% of 531 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

It is 60% off today.

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

Holding it back
Reviews84% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 83% after the small-sample adjustment
Reach75K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
For context
Value$1.87/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead That is today's sale price. Normally $4.68/hr
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds4 of 340 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Paper Planet is a planet-defender, arcade roguelike with a doodley, Flash-inspired artstyle. Battle through waves of unique enemies and bosses. Combine items with strange and wacky effects for insanely overpowered runs. Play with 1-4 players, for some chaotic co-op fun!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 or newer (Integrated Video Cards not recommended), 297 MB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

27 discounts in the 3 years on record, a median of 40 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today's $5.99 at 60 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.

Value puts it in the top 41 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 62 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Over 9000 Zombies! ($2.99, scores 63) beats it on value, while it beats Extremely Powerful Capybaras ($5.99, scores 11).

More about Paper Planet

4 of the 340 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2023 to July 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 83 percent of the 119 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 31 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

85% start to <1% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Paper Planet scores 56/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1504250/paper-planet
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base 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.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperDoodlegames
Publisher2 Left Thumbs
GenreRoguelike
Released2023
Players75Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements45