PAPERHEAD Deluxe Edition | Steam

Enter a cardboard world where speed, horror, and brutal combat come together in an unconventional boomer shooter

Discover what happened inside the mysterious abandoned laboratory

PAPERHEAD Deluxe Edition is a first-person shooter that combines the speed of classic boomer shooters with horror elements, exploration, and a visual style built entirely around paper and cardboard.

Developed by Paperhead te4m and published by HypeTrain Digital, the game takes you inside an apparently abandoned research facility where something has gone terribly wrong.

The world around you initially looks almost playful: cardboard environments, stylized characters, and handcrafted-looking objects create an unusual atmosphere. Behind this appearance, however, lie blood, disturbing experiments, and creatures that are far from harmless.

Your goal is not simply to survive. As you explore the facility, you gradually reconstruct the events that turned this seemingly innocent universe into a nightmare and search for an answer to the question that follows you throughout the experience: why does cardboard bleed?

Master fast combat based on movement and creativity

PAPERHEAD focuses on speed, aggression, and constant movement.

You can use firearms such as the shotgun to quickly eliminate enemies, but the combat system goes beyond traditional FPS mechanics.

Enemies can be launched into the air, hit with environmental objects, or overwhelmed by taking advantage of the protagonist’s mobility. Explosive barrels, for example, can be kicked directly toward enemies, turning the environment into a weapon.

Even jumping can become offensive: you can drop onto enemies from above and chain movement, attacks, and environmental interactions without interrupting the pace of combat.

Mobility is therefore a fundamental part of every fight. Standing still often means losing the advantage, while moving quickly allows you to control arenas, avoid attacks, and create increasingly spectacular combinations.

This philosophy brings PAPERHEAD close to the most frantic boomer shooters while giving it a distinctive visual and mechanical identity.

Use the pencil to change the world around you

One of the game’s most distinctive tools is the pencil, which works not only as a weapon but also allows you to interact directly with the environment.

You can use it to draw new elements into the world and transform an apparently static environment into something you can actively modify.

Among its possibilities, the pencil can create bombs to use against enemies or draw doors that can then be opened by force.

This mechanic introduces a creative element that integrates with both exploration and combat.

A situation can therefore be solved with traditional weapons or by using what the pencil allows you to create. The goal is to encourage a dynamic and experimental approach, making the player feel less restricted by the usual rules of a shooter.

The pencil also reinforces PAPERHEAD’s deliberately absurd and unpredictable identity, where even the rules of the environment can become part of the joke.

Explore a world that looks cute but is deeply unsettling

PAPERHEAD builds much of its atmosphere around contrast.

The world is made of cardboard and uses a deliberately simple, toy-like visual style, but what happens inside it can be extremely violent.

Deformed creatures, blood, and cartoon gore coexist with colorful environments and materials that look as though they came from a craft project.

This contrast allows the game to switch quickly from humorous situations to more disturbing moments, transforming normally harmless objects into elements of horror.

Exploring the abandoned laboratory also allows you to discover different areas and clues that help reconstruct what happened.

The tone remains intentionally absurd, but behind the humor lies a genuine narrative mystery. The deeper you go into the facility, the more the apparent simplicity of the cardboard world gives way to something much more macabre.

Experience an industrial and high-energy audiovisual style

The soundtrack is an important part of PAPERHEAD’s identity.

The most intense combat sequences are accompanied by aggressive industrial music designed to maintain the pace of the action and complement the speed of the movement system.

The contrast between heavy music, cardboard environments, and deliberately exaggerated violence further strengthens the game’s personality.

Sound therefore does more than accompany exploration; it becomes an active part of combat sequences.

Weapon effects, explosions, and environmental interactions also play an important role in giving impact to a world intentionally constructed from materials that look fragile.

PAPERHEAD is designed as a single-player experience and supports Steam Achievements, Steam Cloud, and Family Sharing, as well as full Xbox and PlayStation controller support.

Get the full game and the Deluxe Edition Supporter Pack

PAPERHEAD Deluxe Edition includes:

• PAPERHEAD
• PAPERHEAD - Supporter Pack

The base game contains the full main experience, while the Supporter Pack adds a collection of purely cosmetic customization options for the leg used by the protagonist to kick enemies, explosive barrels, and other environmental objects.

The pack includes skins such as T1m65 shoes, Cute 00's sneakers, Popular Blue Robot, Popular Red Robot, Billy, Hand of the dev, Grin Yellow Friend, Grin Pink Friend, Pat the Cat, and several Mad Hand variants.

These items only change appearance and do not provide bonuses, extra statistics, or gameplay advantages.

The Deluxe Edition therefore gives you the full game together with a pack designed for players who want to further support the developers and customize one of the most frequently used tools in combat: the protagonist’s powerful kick.

Experience the Steam Global version with full PC features

This offer refers to the Steam Global version of PAPERHEAD Deluxe Edition and is intended for regions compatible with the product.

The Steam version includes features such as Steam Achievements, Steam Cloud, and Family Sharing.

The game is exclusively single-player and supports Xbox and PlayStation controllers alongside traditional mouse and keyboard controls.

PAPERHEAD offers interface and subtitles in several languages, including English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, and Turkish.

The Deluxe Edition has the same technical requirements as the base game because the Supporter Pack contains only cosmetic content and does not affect performance requirements.

Buy PAPERHEAD Deluxe Edition Steam Global on Keycense

Choose PAPERHEAD Deluxe Edition Steam Global on Keycense and dive into a frantic boomer shooter where an apparently harmless cardboard world hides a laboratory filled with blood, creatures, and secrets.

Use guns, kicks, and explosive objects to dominate fast-paced fights, use the pencil to alter the environment, and combine movement with creativity to overcome each encounter.

The Deluxe Edition includes the full game and the Supporter Pack with a collection of cosmetic skins dedicated to the protagonist’s leg.

With high-speed action, surreal horror, cartoon gore, and an industrial soundtrack, PAPERHEAD delivers an FPS experience with an instantly recognizable identity.