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Paperbark

Paperbark

Paperbark is a charming game that tells a beautiful short story of a wombat, the bush and a very hot Australian Summer.

Released Dec 12, 2018 Developer Paper House Platforms Windows · Mac IndieCasualAdventureNatureShort
View on Steam ↗ $8.99 (US · as of 2026-05-14)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via SteamSpy as of 2026-05-14.

88.7%positive345 reviews
Recommended · 0 found this helpful

“I zoomed through and missed a lot. Looking forward to playing again and taking it slow and finding all the secrets. Visually beautiful, sound is gorgeous and just all around a really nice short game.”

— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs played
Not recommended · 0 found this helpful

“Paperbark's art style is gorgeous with a great soundtrack, but there's some odd decisions in the design that held back the experience for me. The soundscapes and music often cut out far too abruptly, stopping gameplay for the VO feels unnecessarily immersion breaking, and the…”

— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs played
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Player activity

Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-08-02 21:20 UTC · history via SteamCharts.

0playing at last check
22all-time peak
0 5 10 2019 2020 6 avg · Jan 2020

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

Jan 20, 2026
Minor Update v1.0.8

It's been a while but we've made a small update to Paperbark! It's mostly just quality of life changes that are required for more modern machines and operating systems. We did a small fix to the cocka

Sep 22, 2023
MIGW Steam Event 2023

It's that time of the year again- Melbourne International Games Week kicks off in a week or so. In celebration there is a wonderful Steam even which features all locally made content! This ranges from

Feb 16, 2023
Wood & Weather - Annoncement Trailer!

We've been working on a new game titled Wood & Weather and we have finally put out a trailer showing it off! Wood & Weather is a single player god-game set in a wooden toy city. Make friends and contr

Aug 23, 2022
Happy Book Week 2022!

Happy Book Week 2022 everyone! To celebrate one of our favourite times of the year, we asked our friend Alice Walsh to do this incredibly wonderful wombat illustration! Below we included one of her or

Dec 27, 2021
Happy Winter/Summer Sale!

We're a little late on the post this year, but we thought we'd let you know that Paperbark is on sale for 50% as part of the Steam Winter (Summer) Sale! As mentioned in our previous post, we hope you

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Screenshots

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Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-14.

GenresAdventure, Casual, Indie
Player tagsIndie · Casual · Adventure · Nature · Short · Walking Simulator · Relaxing · Stylized · Colorful · Singleplayer · Cute · Family Friendly (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Trading Cards · Captions available · Camera Comfort · Color Alternatives · Custom Volume Controls · Mouse Only Option
LanguagesEnglish * , French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Indonesian *
Achievements25
Estimated owners20,000 – 50,000 (SteamSpy)
Official sitehttp://paperbarkgame.com/
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 Processor: 2.4 GHz Dual core Memory: 2 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 970 DirectX: Version 10 Storage: 2 GB available space