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PAPER BEAST is two halves of a fantastic VR experience.

- Rick Lane

Part puzzle game, part god game, all extremely weird, Paper Beast is unlike anything I’ve played before. A dedicated virtual reality experience, it puts you at the center of a unique wildlife simulation where the animals are not flesh and fur, but paper origami creatures roaming a harsh desert world. It’s a fascinating and surprisingly emotional experience, albeit one that only scratches the surface of its potential.

Paper Beast is broken up into two distinct halves, starting with its story mode. The precise nature of that story is open to interpretation, but your fundamental role in the game is that of a fickle god, acting varyingly as a helping hand and an agent of chaos to the animals roaming its world. The game’s eight chapters are divided into several individual scenes, each of which comprises a small puzzle about moving the game’s critters from A to B.