Paperbark
Skip · Narrative · 2018
The verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a fair price before.
Today
$8.99Skip
On its price record
$6.78Fair
- Length
- 0.7h 2.3h to 100%
- Value
- $12.84/hr
- Reviews
- 89% of 354 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $6.78 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- 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
Paperbark is a charming game that tells a beautiful short story of a wombat, the bush and a very hot Australian Summer.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 970, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
45 discounts in the 8 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 27 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 85 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Kinoko (free, scores 59) beats it on value, while it beats Isle of Jura ($0.79, scores 13).
More about Paperbark
Steam's global achievement data puts about 14 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 0.7-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Inside the two-hour refund window, 86 percent of the 130 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 65 percent of everything written about it.
0.7 hours to finish it, 2 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.3 times the campaign.
The drop-off
69% start to 14% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
What players say
Wombat, not panda. Disinformation This is a very short cozy story of a small wombat's adventure. The graphics is pretty nice, works with the music background and whole atmoshpere. The game control isn't good, it just works and doesn't bother you in 1 and a half hours of playing. I would recommend it as a small break between some big games.
1 more review
An adorable wombat walking sim. The only real issue I had with it is that the movement is a bit buggy and I wish you could control the wombat with WASD instead of the mouse. Works fine on Linux with Proton (Proton 4.2-1).
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Paperbark scores 46/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/916900/paperbarkReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.