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Paper Mages

A CCG / Deckbuilder / RTS / Third Person Platformer. Take part in the Pentad Mage Duels, where you and other apprentices control paper avatars to duel in a paper castle and become mages. With a deck of 130…

28 May 2025

Paper Mages is an indie, released 28 May 2025 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Paper Mages is

Paper Mages was released in 2025. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on Unreal Engine 4.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The Shattered Hero & the First Paper Mage - Origins of the Duels Every 5 years the Mage duels are held, and the trained apprentices set out to become graduates on the battlefield. Such an archaic thing. So many died proving themselves, increasing in ranks, and what a waste. Yet, for the longest time, nothing was done… Until Eltrest Grefaren. They thought he had lost his mind when his apprentice died in the duels. His apprentice Variscitan, an orphaned beryllian boy. Such promise he had, but more so, heart. Both apprentices perished that day in the tower fall. On the next 5th year, and the next mage duels, Eltrest emerged from his towers, almost aged 15 years over. He showed them a new…
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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

What it launched against

Paper Mages launched on 28 May 2025, within three weeks of Doom: The Dark Ages, Dune: Awakening, The Alters and Elden Ring Nightreign.

Released around the same time: Doom: The Dark Ages, Dune: Awakening, The Alters, Elden Ring Nightreign.

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When did Paper Mages come out?
Paper Mages was released on 28 May 2025 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

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