Paper Trail similar games & best alternatives

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Paper Trail

2024

Should you play it?

Paper Trail is a top-down puzzle adventure about leaving home, set in a foldable, paper world.

What works

  • Unique and creative folding mechanic
  • Beautiful hand-drawn art and soothing soundtrack
  • Balanced and rewarding puzzle difficulty
  • Charming narrative and characters
  • Helpful hint system for accessibility

Things to keep in mind

  • Story can feel vague or underdeveloped
  • Some puzzles may feel repetitive or tedious
  • Limited length and replay value for some players
  • Minor ui issues with folding controls
  • Lack of deeper social or multiplayer features

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Slider

  • Braid, Anniversary Edition

  • Toki Tori 2+

  • A Monster's Expedition

  • Flood of Light

  • Bonfire Peaks

More expressive

Games that feels like Paper Trail but with more self-expression and customization

  • The Multi-Medium

  • Treasure Adventure World

  • Monkey GO Happy

  • Helheim Hassle

  • Arranger: A Role-Puzzling Adventure

  • Girls Like Robots

More thrilling

Games that feels like Paper Trail but with more suspense and thrill

  • Children of Silentown

  • Teleportals. I swear it's a nice game

  • Detective Di: The Silk Rose Murders

  • Alice's Patchwork

  • Chronoquartz

  • The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark

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Similarity map

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Each card is a nearby game on the similarity map, compared with Paper Trail. Swipe sideways to move between games. Titles already listed in What to play next are left out.

  • Cover and title: open that game’s page.
  • What works / keep in mind: the same highlights as the desktop comparison panel.
  • Bars: the main motivational differences versus this game.
How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • 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.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Swipe to compare nearby games with Paper Trail. These titles are not in What to play next.

Paper Trail: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Survival, Violence, Competition, Thrill. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Strategy. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Intimacy, Expression.

Last update: 21/08/2026