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Paper Sorcerer

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2014

Should you play it?

Paper Sorcerer is a stylish single player turn based RPG focused on strategy, party-building, and environmental puzzles. Fight with the skills and spells you've learned in a battle system that emphasizes strategy over grinding. Assemble a party of monsters and dark creatures to fight alongside you.

What works

  • Unique monochrome art style
  • Challenging and strategic turn-based combat
  • Varied party compositions and skills
  • Good value for price
  • Engaging dungeon exploration with secrets

Things to keep in mind

  • Some bugs and glitches reported
  • Minimal story and character development
  • Music can be repetitive or disliked
  • Interface and inventory management clunky
  • Lack of multiplayer or social features

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • The Bard's Tale Trilogy

  • Touhou Artificial Dream in Arcadia

  • Path of the Abyss

  • StarCrawlers

  • The Fall of the Dungeon Guardians - Enhanced Edition

  • Shadows of Adam

Less leadership-focused

Games that feels like Paper Sorcerer but with less leadership over others

  • FIGHT KNIGHT

  • Slasher's Keep

  • RAIDBORN

  • Tyrant's Realm

  • Metal Unit

  • Pharaoh Rebirth+

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Paper Sorcerer: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Survival, Fellowship, Intimacy. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Leadership, Relaxation, Violence.

Last update: 21/08/2026