Paperbound (2015) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Paperbound

Run with scissors and walk on walls in this award-winning local-multiplayer gravity battle arena game from the mind of a former Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare developer. Enter the pages of old books where you…

73 31 March 2015

What Paperbound is

Paperbound was released in 2015. It was published by Dissident Logic. It is available on PlayStation 4 and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Run with scissors and walk on walls in this award-winning local-multiplayer gravity battle arena game from the mind of a former Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare developer. Enter the pages of old books where you will find strange environments and a cabal of playable characters. Matches are not only fast-paced and intense, but they require you to think in whole new ways in order to master gravity.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player. There are 11 achievements to unlock.

How it was received

Paperbound holds a critic score of 73 out of 100. That places it above 54% of the 981 rated fighting games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored 4 points above the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for Intel i5 1.6 GHz dual core or comparable CPU, 2 GB RAM and DirectX 9, Shader Model 3.0-compliant GPU with at least 1 GB video ram. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 1GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.

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What it launched against

Paperbound launched on 31 March 2015, within three weeks of Bloodborne, Ori and the Blind Forest, Mortal Kombat X and Yakuza 0. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 2 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Bloodborne, Ori and the Blind Forest, Mortal Kombat X, Yakuza 0.

Paperbound — frequently asked questions

When did Paperbound come out?

Paperbound was released on 31 March 2015 for PlayStation 4 and PC (Microsoft Windows).

What are the minimum PC requirements for Paperbound?

At minimum, Paperbound needs Intel i5 1.6 GHz dual core or comparable CPU, 2 GB RAM, DirectX 9, Shader Model 3.0-compliant GPU with at least 1 GB video ram graphics, 1 GB available space of storage.

How many GB is Paperbound?

The PC version needs about 1 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("1 GB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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