Paper Bride
Worth it · RPG · 2021
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $3.99, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Dec 2021.
- Length
- 3.4h
- Value
- $1.17/hr
- Reviews
- 91% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 50% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Typical seasonal cut
- 40% ($4.79)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 50% ($3.99)
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, NVIDIA Geforce GT440（512M）or AMD Radeon equivalent or above, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
Paper Bride is a Chinese horror mystery puzzle game. You will play as the groom to search for the truth and have bizarre encounters, gradually learning about the dark mystic custom in the bride's home village and a story from the past...
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
June 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $3.99. Its cuts run 20 percent off as a rule. There have been 24 in the 5 years tracked, about 10 weeks apart. Today's $3.99 at 50 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
This sale is doing real work. 78 at list, 83 today.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 95 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Murders on the Yangtze River ($14.99, scores 94) beats it on value, while it beats True Fear: Forsaken Souls Part 1 ($8.99, scores 70).
Of the 481 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 3 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 80 percent of the 209 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 3.4 hours; clearing it takes 7, which is 2.1 times the campaign.
The drop-off
97% start to 9% 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
5 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 18:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Paper Bride is a decent point-and-click puzzle game; though a couple of the puzzles were pretty obscure. I played without using the in-game hint system and there were two puzzles that I had to look up in a guide (one of which still didn't make sense to me, but that's probably because I can't read Chinese). Anyhow, it's not bad; I liked it well enough, but I suspect I'm not the only one that has had trouble on some...
I definitely recommend playing Paper Bride! I actually first discovered it through the Identity V collab. Later, my boyfriend told me it was based on a real game and recommended that I play the original, and I'm really glad I did. The game was fun, and the story is incredibly interesting. It kept me hooked from start to finish, and I especially loved how it incorporates Chinese folklore and traditional customs into...
A very beautifully designed point&click puzzle game! I adore the folklore theme and the story regarding it is quite interesting. The detailed graphics are gorgeous and portray the setting in an immersive way, plus the overall atmosphere is great and manages to be creepy. I found it enjoyable to explore the maps and the gameplay in general felt satisfying. Playing majority of it in one sitting was a mistake though, I...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Cite this score
Paper Bride scores 83/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1735950/paper-brideReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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