Puzzles are a tricky thing to perfect in video games.

Paper Trail answers this with one basic idea: folding paper.

Or, the underside can fill in part of a pattern required to magically unlock other areas.

Paper Trail official screenshot showing thre doll-like characters dotted around a central phoenix statue in the woods - a scene of paper-like texture, featuring autumn reds and burnt orange leaves.

it’s possible for you to fold pages from the top, bottom, sides, or four corners.

Playing Paper Trail is as straight-forward as that, but simple controls do not equal a simple game.

However, I’ve never had to fold my way to the solution before.

Main character standing in the middle of a cross-shaped area of paper, with a statue above her, a switch to the right and a door below her, from a top-down view in paper drawing art style.

With this one addition, a mainstay puzzle suddenly requires a whole new way of thinking.

What corner do I fold first?

Where should the statue be when I start to fold?

An eldery woman trapped behind rocks and a fallen tree, from a top-down view in paper drawing art style.

Where should I be standing?

It doesn’t have a wildly complicated solution, but it does feel satisfying when the lightbulb moment happens.

This one new layer of thinking is easy enough to comprehend, but tough enough to impress.

Folding top right corner page below the main character to show a dark pattern, from a top-down view in paper drawing art style.

What are they really?

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Main character standing on a wooden bridge above green water with the bottom right corner folded up, from a top-down view in paper drawing art style.

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