Paper Perjury
Worth it · Narrative · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $7.99, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Dec 2024.
- Length
- 10.1h 13.3h to 100%
- Value
- $0.79/hr
- Reviews
- 89% of 234 positive
Full price
Today
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Discounted in each of its last 7 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
It all started with a simple robbery. When that thread was pulled, a tapestry of mysteries was revealed. Solve cases and outsmart criminals in a detective story full of lies, confessions, and maybe even a murder or two.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Integrated Graphics, 901 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
October 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $7.99. 22 discounts in the 2 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 4 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 6 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 87 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 83 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Blackwell Legacy ($4.99, scores 74) beats it on value, while it beats Adventure Escape Mysteries (free, scores 63).
More about Paper Perjury
Of the 216 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2024 to August 2026.
The drop-off
89% 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
Players
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Sep 29, 03:53 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
cute mystery/law visual novel that has you play as a clerk that got roped into solving mysteries. charming characters and art carries the cases and unlike other detective VNs the cases explores other types of crimes outside of murder(although it's not lack here). the mystery is not the most intricate but the colourful cast and dialogue makes up for that.
2 more reviews
pretty decent game, I feel like the cases bleed over into each other too much though
This game is amazing. The music is pretty good. The game is a treat to look at. The backgrounds are full of detail and the characters are well designed. I like the animation as well. There are some points I don't really like it. Notably Sofie's jumping sprite and the reuse of Bill's sprite on fineman. The handbag looks out of place, it would look much better if there were some inbetween frames or the bag didn't...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Paper Perjury scores 70/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1919600/paper-perjuryReviews 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 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.