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Released Oct 9, 2026

Paperhead

2026 · Shooter, Indie
Paperhead te4m · PC · PS5 · Xbox Series X|S

PAPERHEAD is a fast-paced FPS game set in a world where everything is made out of cardboard and paper but is infested with horror! Use a pencil as a weapon and explore what exactly went wrong in the secret research facility and why suddenly papercut people were able to...bleed. Paperhead's Main Features - Cardboard cute style with a horror twist. Cute but horrifying! - Brutal and fast-paced combat. Slide to throw enemies in the air, kick explosive barrels into them (or enemies themselves!), and jump onto them Mario-style. - Use a Pencil as a weapon. Draw a bomb to explode enemies! - Use a Pencil as a reality-warping puzzle-solving tool. Not sure how to get through? Try to draw a door on the wall! WHY WOULD PAPER...BLEED?

Real Score
83
Broadly loved
from 76 reactions
high confidence
68% positive30% mixed2% negative
3Platforms

What people are saying

Updated nightly
The Real Review

Paperhead is a fast, brutal FPS where you fight papercut horrors with a reality-warping pencil, and people mostly love its creative, stylish world. The gameplay is praised for its speed and the pencil's puzzle-solving, while the cute-but-horrifying cardboard art style and killer soundtrack are huge hits. The main issue is performance, with some PC and Xbox players hitting rough crashes and frame drops, but it's still considered great value if your platform can handle it.

Synthesized from 76 real reactions · high confidenceGraphicsValueGameplayStoryDifficultyPerformance

Sentiment split

Every qualifying reaction, weighted.

68%positive
  • Positive68%
  • Mixed30%
  • Negative2%

By aspect

What people scored, piece by piece.

graphics100
value88
gameplay84
story80
multiplayer50
performance28
difficulty25

How opinion moved

The Real Score, night by night.

The trend appears once there are a couple of nightly runs to compare.

Buzz

112 reactions over two weeks, counted by the day they were posted.

02550Sep 27: 1 reactionSep 27Sep 28: 2 reactionsSep 29: 2 reactions29Sep 30: 3 reactionsOct 1: 1 reaction1Oct 2: 1 reactionOct 3: 1 reaction3Oct 4: 4 reactionsOct 5: 9 reactions5Oct 6: 3 reactionsOct 7: 4 reactions7Oct 8: 5 reactionsOct 9: 47 reactions9Oct 10: 29 reactions10Release

Where the signal came from

Volume and platform mix only.

Steam46
Social Media30

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Names and topics that came up

Mentions across all reactions, with the share that were positive. Anything mentioned fewer than twice never shapes the review.

musicfeature5×100%+
movementfeature5×80%+
combatfeature4×50%+
soundtrackfeature4×75%+
lorefeature3×100%+
sound designfeature3×100%+
secretsfeature3×67%+
Windowsplatform3×0%+
artfeature2×100%+
enemiescharacter2×100%+
pencilfeature2×50%+
Xboxplatform2×0%+
PCplatform2×0%+
Xbox Series X|Splatform2×0%+
level designfeature2×100%+

Trailer and screenshots

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