Paper Trail
Fair · Strategy · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a BANGER price before.
Today
$19.99Fair
On its price record
$7.64BANGER
- Length
- 6.2h
- Value
- $3.22/hr
- Reviews
- 95% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 75% ($4.99)
- Last discount ended
- 14 days ago
Watch it for a saleSources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Geforce GT 420, Radeon HD 7400G, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Paper Trail is a top-down puzzle adventure about leaving home, set in a foldable, paper world.
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 $2.99, set in January 2026. It has been discounted 20 times in the 2 years tracked here, typically at 70 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 2 weeks ago. Past sales have already crossed the $7.64 BANGER line 10 times.
On value it sits in the top 4 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 89 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Carto ($19.99, scores 72) beats it on value, while it beats Röki ($19.99, scores 64).
Critics scored it 80. Players sit 15 points higher at 95 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Of the 338 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2024 to August 2026.
At 6.2 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
87% start to 6% 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
What players say
*First scene starts* Me : Oh wow, there is voice acting, nice! *Game starts* Characters: Pouap doupidoup doup doup. Me: Oh... ok... Story From the very begining, it sounds like the intro to a cliché teen movie. Nothing very groundbreaking, but it's cute and I like it. The character is a young "not a girl, not yet a woman" (18) who wants to be an astrophysicist and runs away from home to go to university. I started...
Pretty arts, music, graphics. Puzzle is not too difficult. Relaxing and touching.
Very, very good game. Felt like a fresh breeze for the first time in a while. It was a unique experience to me. The puzzles were not too hard but not too easy as well. Player could get hardstuck on some idea for a long time and then solve it in 3 moves if he took a step back which is amazing. In general the gameplay and the puzzles were very creative and innovative. This all was accompanied by a great soundtrack...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Paper Trail scores 67/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1889740/paper-trailReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 1.
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