Paper Tales - Catch up Games
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4+
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English
Fri Jan 02 2026
What's new:
- UI adaptations for ranking panel
Paper Tales is a visually unique arcade game featuring a world made entirely of paper. Guide your character through intricate environments, avoiding traps and collecting bonuses. With its distinctive art style and smooth controls, it offers a relaxing yet challenging experience for players of all ages.
Dinsun Expert Review
Our Expert Score
Paper Tales (specifically the 'Catch Up' edition) is a quirky, stylish take on the endless runner genre. It ditches the generic 3D graphics of its peers for a unique, 'paper-craft' aesthetic that makes every frame look like a pop-up book. The movement is snappy and the obstacle density is perfectly tuned to keep you in a state of 'flow.'
What differentiates Paper Tales is the charm. There is a whimsicality to the character designs and the sound effects that makes failing less frustrating. The 'catch up' mechanic keeps the pressure on, forcing you to maintain speed rather than just dodging. It’s a polished, artistic distraction that proves that even the most saturated genres can feel fresh with the right art direction.
Features
Unique paper-craft art style
Intuitive one-touch controls
Unlockable characters and themes
Satisfying sound design and music
Tips & Walkthrough
Don't just jump; glide. Holding the jump button for a fraction of a second longer allows you to clear wide gaps that a quick tap would miss.
Gameplays
The blue 'paper folds' act as currency. Prioritize them during the early, slower phases of a run to unlock more durable characters for high-score attempts.
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Q&A
The game is free to play and supported by occasional ads, which can be removed via in-app purchase.
Ratings & Reviews
Great game!
Thu Sep 22 2022 WRS15743First of all, thank you, developer, for making this in portrait mode! I used to have a similar game but it was landscape, and I just don’t like playing landscape, so I deleted it. Portrait is easier to hold. So thank you! Also thank you for a fair premium price with no ads. The file size is also small and the app is good on battery. The game also looks nice. You did everything right here. For those saying they had a hard time figuring out the mechanics, I found a really good video online of a reviewer doing a play-through with the app. If you watch that, and then play a game or two, you’ll know what to do. I lost my first game, barely, and then won my next game, barely. That means the app is balanced. Very good job developer! The only thing I think that could be clearer is the fact that you have to discard the rest of your cards before you deploy, and at first I wasn’t sure what to do because it wasn’t clear to me how to discard them and that I had to drag them all to discard one by one. But I figured it out. Very well done. I highly recommend this enjoyable strategy game that is challenging without being too hard or frustrating. Thank you!
Slick Game, Why No Building Reference?
Tue Aug 19 2025 Mark EhlThis is a great version of a great game, but it’s hard to plan purchases with no ability to see the buildings before the build phase
Bare bones app, needs much more polish
Mon Nov 09 2020 PikkusiiliThis app probably works fine for people who already know how to play the game. As someone who has never played Paper Tales but has played hundreds of board games in physical and digital implementations, this app needs a lot of work. The tutorial is a slide show that doesn’t explain how to do things or the user interface. The player information bar floats over your draft picks so you can’t see what you’ve already taken. There is no in app feedback on why something isn’t working. I think I’m going to ask for a refund on this. It looks pretty and I think if you know the game it might work for you. It doesn’t work for me.
Money down the drain
Sat Nov 07 2020 DaveseidnerTutorial is a joke. No rulebok. Not intuitive. Makes no sense. Trying to learn by playing, but nothing is explained, it’s a huge waste. And it’s not like I haven’t played 1000 different strategy board and card games before or 100s of board game apps. In the deployment phase in Age 2, I deployed cards that I can afford and the green checkmark doesn’t enable. I tried different combinations of cards, nothing. No direction from the app as to what I’m doing wrong, it just sits in this state expecting me to do something, assuming I know and understand the rules, but the app never taught me the game. Not sure if the app has bugs or I don’t understand the rules. I suppose I could seek out the rules online, but I shouldn’t have to. Horrible. Zero stars.
Good game, but needs a ton of work
Fri Dec 11 2020 ski6913I really enjoy Paper Tales as a game, but the app is extremely underdeveloped. Tutorial is completely barebones and isn’t sufficient for a new player to learn the game, you can’t see the available buildings until the building phase, etc. Needed way more testing and development before they started accepting money from people.
News found!
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