AdventureCasualIndieStrategy
Paper Trail
Give it 1 hour
Gets good by 1h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Fully opens up by 7h rated like by long-time players
Started playing 87% of owners
Steam reviews 95% positive of 994
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 4 reviews are negative (26%); after 7h it's 1 in 90 (1%).
- Fully opens up by hour 7.
- Few early reviews, so this is a rough estimate.
- 87% of owners got the first achievement.
When it gets good
Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.
before it gets good opening up fully opened up
Based on all 1,003 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 299 reviews: 8.1h for positive, 1.8h for negative. Almost every game is rated lower in the first 2–3 hours: that window includes refunds and quick first impressions. What matters is how deep the dip is and how fast the game recovers.
Where players quit
Share of players who started the game and reached each story milestone. 100% is the most common achievement (87% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
Story milestones aren't labeled yet; all achievements are listed below.
All achievements (35)
- Fold Over a New Leaf Complete Home 100%
- Journey to the Centerfold Complete Cave 70%
- Fold your Paper, Alligator Complete Swamp 49%
- Paper Tail Pet Ollie 48%
- Leaf Me Alone Complete Forest 42%
- Stop, Drop and Fold Complete Autumn 40%
- Jurassic Fold Complete Ruins 37%
- Holy Sheets Complete Temple 35%
- Rocks, Paper, Scissors Collect all Cave origami 33%
- Snakes on a Non-Euclidean Plane Collect all Swamp origami 33%
- The Fold Man and the Sea Complete Ocean 32%
- Brave New Fold Complete City 31%
- Peer-Reviewed Paper Graduate University 31%
- Creased Lightning Collect all Forest origami 30%
- Ah, Home Sheet Home! Collect all Home origami 29%
- Craftwork Orange Collect all Autumn origami 29%
- Papyrologist Collect all Ruins origami 26%
- A Good Snowman Is Hard To Fold Knock over the snowman 26%
- Lara Craft Collect all Temple origami 25%
- Manifold Destiny Find the deer in the sky 25%
- They Sea Me Foldin Collect all Ocean origami 23%
- Picture Purr-fect Find the comfy cat 22%
- Recycled ideas Find Hue on the reverse 22%
- Papering the Cracks Knock over the vase 22%
- Wrapping Up Collect all City origami 22%
- Deer Diary Find the deer on the bridge 21%
- You and Who's Origami Find all the origami 19%
- A Clean Sheet Complete the game without using hints 16%
- Folding Stones Gather No Moss Knock over all of the stacked stones 13%
- The Story Unfolds Find the memory of Paige and her dad 13%
- Fold Shoulder Release the frog 10%
- Crumply Old Man Annoy Winslow 8.2%
- Folding Under Pressure Complete a new game in under 4 hours 7.6%
- Easier On Paper Find all secrets 6.9%
- Master of Folds All achievements obtained 5.6%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-21.