Paperback: The Game
A word-building card game where each word helps expand your deck
Mark Fassett · Published by Fowers Games · Released Nov 29, 2017
Third-party account required
- Reviews
- Mixed
- 68% of 72
- Recent reviews
- Not enough recent
- Players
- 0
- daily peak, Oct 29, 2026
- Steam Deck
- Playable
- Last update on Steam
- 8 years ago
- Nov 8, 2017
What is Paperback: The Game?
This free word-building deckbuilder has you form words from letter and wild cards, then spend their scores on new cards with special abilities. Buying Novel cards earns fame points toward victory. You can play against AI or locally with up to four players, but the online server is offline.
For you if...
- +you like combining vocabulary skills with strategic card choices
- +you prefer untimed turns over racing against a clock
Not for you if...
- −you want to build on words already in play
What players say
68% of 72 reviews are positive
Players praise the straightforward rules and artwork. They commonly criticize the clunky interface, while some also complain that the dictionary rejects familiar words.
Screenshots and trailer
Paperback: The Game system requirements
Minimum: DX9 (shader model 3.0), 0.1 GB of disk space.
As published by the developer.
Can my PC run Paperback: The Game?
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Set up my PC →Minimum
- OS
- Windows XP SP2+
- Processor
- CPU: SSE2 instruction set support
- Graphics
- Graphics card: DX9 (shader model 3.0) or DX11 with feature level 9.3 capabilities
- Storage
- 48 MB available space
Does Paperback: The Game have co-op or multiplayer?
Yes: PvP online. It also has a single-player mode. Crossplay with other platforms is declared.
Does Paperback: The Game run on Steam Deck?
Playable Playable: it runs on Steam Deck with some adjustments.
- Sometimes shows mouse, keyboard or non-Deck controller icons
- Some text entry requires manually opening the on-screen keyboard
- Some in-game text is small and may be hard to read
- All functionality is accessible with the default controller configuration
- Default graphics settings perform well on Steam Deck
PC version details
- DRM
- None declared on Steam
- Third-party account
- For online play, users must register on Paperback's cross-platform server
- Controller
- Keyboard and mouse
- Platforms
- Windows
- Steam features
- Family Sharing
- Languages
- Text only: English.
Does Paperback: The Game use AI-generated content?
No AI-generated content is disclosed on the game's Steam page.
Self-reported by the developer under Steam rules: it covers AI content that ships in the game, not tools used to make it. Steam page checked on Oct 27, 2026. How to filter AI games on Steam
