Overview:
- Estimated achievement difficulty: 2/10 with a guide; 4/10 without [Achievement Difficulty Rating]
- Offline: 34 [1000
]
- Online: 0
- Approximate amount of time to 1000: 6-10 hours [depending on if you use a guide and how many playthroughs you do] [Estimated Time to 100%]
- Minimum number of playthroughs needed: 1 if you follow a video guide; 2 recommended to 100% the game and then do the speedrun
- Missable achievements: A Clean Sheet (100G) and Folding Under Pressure (100G). All other achievements can be mopped up post game during "free roam" using World Select to replay any chapter
- Does difficulty affect achievements: No difficulty option
- Unobtainable/glitched achievements: None
Introduction:
Welcome to Paper Trail, a new and innovative puzzle game from the makers of the hit puzzle game Hue. This game follows similarly in terms of laid back feel, but with a new take on puzzle solving. This game and its narrative/levels take place on pages of paper, and you'll need to fold each page strategically to be able to progress through each area and solve puzzles. There are nine chapters, and each one introduces a new mechanic that ties into the main folding mechanic. As for achievements, there are collectibles in each chapter, although rather than hunting them down, it's more a matter of figuring out how to reach them, and there are a bunch of miscellaneous achievements. Then, of course, there's the speedrun achievement, but don't let it deter you. It has a very generous limit. Let's get started.
Abbreviated Walkthrough:
Right away, let's address one playthrough or two. If you are playing this game just for gamerscore and don't care about the experience, you could follow a video guide that shows progression, all collectibles, and all miscellaneous achievements. That video is just under three hours long, so you could definitely follow it, pausing as you watch, and theoretically unlock every achievement in a single playthrough. With a three hour video, it should take you a solid six hours to watch and replicate. That obviously completely kills the experience though, so I don't recommend that, especially if you're paying for this game.
For those who want to play the game themselves to solve the puzzles, you can expect your first playthrough, which should be a 100% playthrough consisting of all collectibles and miscellaneous achievements, to take somewhere around 6-8 hours, depending on your puzzle solving prowess. I personally took a little over 7 hours, but I had no guides available for any collectibles or achievements or progression.
Which route you take, you'll want to avoid pressing
to use a hint, since there's an achievement for not using any. You'll be forced to do so during the tutorial in the first chapter, but that doesn't count. Alternatively, you could use hints as needed in your first playthrough if you're doing two, knowing that your speedrun assuredly won't involve using any hints.
For collectibles, refer to each collectible-related achievement, of which each chapter has one. It's easy enough to "find" them all on your own by just reversing every new page you come to with
to see if a collectible exists on the underside somewhere. Then, it's a matter of actually reaching it. Each collectible achievement below has text descriptions, and most have a video clip too to help.
For the miscellaneous achievements, here is a list of where to find each, in the order they're unlocked:
Lastly is the speedrun. Four hours is very generous considering the video walkthrough is under three hours and is a 100% walkthrough that isn't a speedrun. Follow a video, pausing as you go, or practice and remember each area. Either way, you shouldn't struggle much or at all with the speedrun achievement in this game. That'll wrap up this completion.
Conclusion:
Paper Trail is a fantastic puzzle game. It's relaxing and fun, with a unique idea, and the solutions are always simple enough that you don't need to do something crazy complicated to get through an area. It never takes more than two or three folds to get to the next spot. The achievements also are good, with the collectibles adding a bit of extra challenge to reach them, and the miscellaneous achievements just being silly fun. The speedrun is also very reasonable, so even though its existence is typically detested in puzzle games, it doesn't bring down this completion. Hopefully you enjoyed this game too, and congrats on the completion.
- Estimated achievement difficulty: 2/10 with a guide; 4/10 without [Achievement Difficulty Rating]
- Offline: 34 [1000
]- Online: 0
- Approximate amount of time to 1000
: 6-10 hours [depending on if you use a guide and how many playthroughs you do] [Estimated Time to 100%]- Minimum number of playthroughs needed: 1 if you follow a video guide; 2 recommended to 100% the game and then do the speedrun
- Missable achievements: A Clean Sheet (100G) and Folding Under Pressure (100G). All other achievements can be mopped up post game during "free roam" using World Select to replay any chapter
- Does difficulty affect achievements: No difficulty option
- Unobtainable/glitched achievements: None
Introduction:
Welcome to Paper Trail, a new and innovative puzzle game from the makers of the hit puzzle game Hue. This game follows similarly in terms of laid back feel, but with a new take on puzzle solving. This game and its narrative/levels take place on pages of paper, and you'll need to fold each page strategically to be able to progress through each area and solve puzzles. There are nine chapters, and each one introduces a new mechanic that ties into the main folding mechanic. As for achievements, there are collectibles in each chapter, although rather than hunting them down, it's more a matter of figuring out how to reach them, and there are a bunch of miscellaneous achievements. Then, of course, there's the speedrun achievement, but don't let it deter you. It has a very generous limit. Let's get started.
Abbreviated Walkthrough:
Right away, let's address one playthrough or two. If you are playing this game just for gamerscore and don't care about the experience, you could follow a video guide that shows progression, all collectibles, and all miscellaneous achievements. That video is just under three hours long, so you could definitely follow it, pausing as you watch, and theoretically unlock every achievement in a single playthrough. With a three hour video, it should take you a solid six hours to watch and replicate. That obviously completely kills the experience though, so I don't recommend that, especially if you're paying for this game.
For those who want to play the game themselves to solve the puzzles, you can expect your first playthrough, which should be a 100% playthrough consisting of all collectibles and miscellaneous achievements, to take somewhere around 6-8 hours, depending on your puzzle solving prowess. I personally took a little over 7 hours, but I had no guides available for any collectibles or achievements or progression.
Which route you take, you'll want to avoid pressing
to use a hint, since there's an achievement for not using any. You'll be forced to do so during the tutorial in the first chapter, but that doesn't count. Alternatively, you could use hints as needed in your first playthrough if you're doing two, knowing that your speedrun assuredly won't involve using any hints.For collectibles, refer to each collectible-related achievement, of which each chapter has one. It's easy enough to "find" them all on your own by just reversing every new page you come to with
to see if a collectible exists on the underside somewhere. Then, it's a matter of actually reaching it. Each collectible achievement below has text descriptions, and most have a video clip too to help.For the miscellaneous achievements, here is a list of where to find each, in the order they're unlocked:
- The Story Unfolds (15G) (Intro Journal Entry)
- Crumply Old Man (15G) (Home)
- Paper Tail (15G) (Home)
- Folding Stones Gather No Moss (15G) (Cave)
- Fold Shoulder (15G) (Swamp)
- Manifold Destiny (15G) (Swamp Journal Entry)
- Papering the Cracks (15G) (Ruins)
- Picture Purr-fect (15G) (Temple Journal Entry)
- A Good Snowman Is Hard To Fold (15G) (City)
- Recycled ideas (15G) (City Journal Entry/Epilogue)
- Deer Diary (15G) (Post Credits Free Roam)
Lastly is the speedrun. Four hours is very generous considering the video walkthrough is under three hours and is a 100% walkthrough that isn't a speedrun. Follow a video, pausing as you go, or practice and remember each area. Either way, you shouldn't struggle much or at all with the speedrun achievement in this game. That'll wrap up this completion.
Conclusion:
Paper Trail is a fantastic puzzle game. It's relaxing and fun, with a unique idea, and the solutions are always simple enough that you don't need to do something crazy complicated to get through an area. It never takes more than two or three folds to get to the next spot. The achievements also are good, with the collectibles adding a bit of extra challenge to reach them, and the miscellaneous achievements just being silly fun. The speedrun is also very reasonable, so even though its existence is typically detested in puzzle games, it doesn't bring down this completion. Hopefully you enjoyed this game too, and congrats on the completion.
[XBA would like to thank Necrophage33 for this Roadmap]
to pet, unlocking this achievement.
