Paper Trail (video game)

Paper Trail is a puzzle video game developed and published by Newfangled Games and released on 21 May 2024.^[1][2] It has been nominated for the 2025 British Academy Games Award for British Game,^[3] along with a nomination for the D.I.C.E. Award for Mobile Game of the Year at the 28th Annual D.I.C.E. Awards.^[4]

Paper Trail
Developer(s)	Newfangled Games
Publisher(s)	Newfangled Games
Platform(s)	Nintendo Switch PlayStation 4 PlayStation 5 Windows macOS Xbox Series X/S Xbox One iOS Android
Release	21 May 2024
Genre(s)	Puzzle video game
Mode(s)	Single-player

Gameplay

Paper Trail is a single-player^[5] point-and-click game with a top-down perspective.^[6] The game world is presented as sheets of paper; the puzzles involve folding these sheets, origami-style, in order to move a character across obstacles.

Release

Paper Trail was released on 21 May 2024 for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch, Windows, macOS, and mobile devices via Netflix.^[7]

Reception

The PC, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X versions of Paper Trail all received "generally favorable" reviews from critics, according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.^{[8][9][10][11]}