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My Beautiful Paper Smile

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2021

Should you play it?

Welcome, child, to your new home. Here you shall learn the art of perfection. Here you shall learn to smile. Be sure that smile doesn’t fade into sadness, or you will need to run and hide…

What works

  • Unique hand-drawn art style
  • Strong atmospheric horror
  • Engaging narrative and lore
  • Interesting world and characters
  • Puzzles and stealth add gameplay variety

Things to keep in mind

  • Short game length
  • Some tedious walking and exploration
  • Linear and simple gameplay mechanics
  • Story leaves some questions unanswered
  • Camera and control issues in some segments

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feel the closest overall

  • Home Sweet Home EP2

  • File Destined

  • Backrooms: Lost Tape

  • The Story of Henry Bishop

  • The Night of the Scissors

  • Dread X Collection 5

  • Apsulov: End of Gods

  • SUFFOCATE

  • Suite 776

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Hidden Gems

Less popular games with surprisingly high similarity

  • Dementium: The Ward

  • Chicken Feet

  • Obsurity

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Similarity map

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How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game. They are arranged from the game’s motivation profile. Closer dots usually mean more similar reasons to play (exploration, competition, relaxation, etc.)—not that one game is “better” than another.

  • Purple star: this page’s game — everything on the map is relative to it.
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom out and see more games.

Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers (hidden on purpose).

My Beautiful Paper Smile: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Expression, Fellowship, Cooperation, Leadership. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Creativity, Exploration. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Expression.

Last update: 26/07/2026