Paper Bride

Paper Bride is a Chinese horror mystery puzzle game. You will play as the groom to search for the truth and have bizarre encounters, gradually learning about the dark mystic custom in the bride's home village and a story from the past...

Paper Bride is a horror, puzzle and 2d game developed and published by HeartBeat Plus.
Released on December 02nd 2021 is available only on Windows in 7 languages: English, Japanese, Thai, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Vietnamese and Korean.

It has received 1,970 reviews of which 1,805 were positive and 165 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.7 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 5.27€ on Steam and has a 20% discount.

The Steam community has classified Paper Bride into these genres:

Horror Puzzle 2D Drama Mystery Detective Atmospheric Thriller Singleplayer Casual Supernatural Story Rich Puzzle-Platformer RPG Word Game Psychological Horror Narration Interactive Fiction Retro Cinematic

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Requirements

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Windows

OS: Windows 7sp1 or Windows 10
Processor: Intel Core2 Duo E6550 or AMD equivalent or above
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA Geforce GT440（512M）or AMD Radeon equivalent or above
DirectX: Version 9.0
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 1 GB available space

Reviews

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Oct. 2024

Playtime: 3 hours. Include 5 chapters. Short point and click puzzle with chinese style horror. Difficulty is medium with hint available, best play in chinese language. Recommend for puzzle lover.

Aug. 2024

A Chinese point & click adventure (originally for mobile) in which you rescue your future wife Moqi. The story is often grinny, but the Chinese funeral culture is shown well. It has moon logic, but also a hint system with very direct solutions.

July 2024

My first point and click game and I´d say it´s pretty good, I expected it to be more scary but overall really good. I specially liked the atmosphere and the artwork.

June 2024

Paper Bride is an escape room styled point&click puzzle game that tells an interesting story inspired from Chinese folklore. I did like the story enough that i was able to play through the game without getting bored but i had some issues with the gameplay. It's really hard to figure out what the game expects you to do. I constantly felt lost and had to rely heavily on the hint system just to figure out what i should do next. Also i really would've preferred the hints to actually give you hints rather than the entire solution. While the games dialogues are fully translated to English, most of the puzzles rely on Chinese characters. In turn, this overly complicates said puzzles for non Chinese speakers especially because the answers and puzzles don't share the same font. Despite these issues i believe Paper Bride has a strong foundation that hopefully improve its gameplay aspect in the sequels. As for this game alone, because of said issues, i can only recommend it in a bundle or on a heavy discount.

Jan. 2024

"Ghost Marriages are Easier to Perform than Real Marriages" Which was said by a performer who arranges ghost marriages for certain families yes even today. This is a century old tradition that boasts the spirituality and social culture in China and possibly other Asian countries as well. The review was written after a significant research into Chinese culture as well as completing the game 100% achievements in order to write an in depth review to honor this little gem. 💀Story: Got 'em context 💀Characters: Spooki even the protagonist 💀Gameplay: Might be a little bit racist 💀Graphics and VA: Eeerie 💀Achievements: There is that one last achievement.... Story Story centers around this ritual where you do a wedding ceremony for deceased people. You are the bridegroom you go to brides home to your wedding after partying with your friends. But yeah, you are greeted with creepy paper dolls, paper foods, and deceased portraits of your mother and father in law. The story has elements of horror, not RE level scary but there are minor unexpected jump scares. You discover your wife was spooked away by another bride wearing a white bridal dress. So you journey through trying to find the twisted truth of your misfortune. Trying to save your wedding basically. I liked how the culture is mapped into the game, you learn about hell bank notes, about the unique ceremonies, about masks and superstitions. You also learn BG history of other ghost characters which somehow relates to you. There is a plot twist at the end so you can brace for it. Characters Not many characters a few main characters, and some side characters form the whole story. The protagonist is desperate to marry his sweetheart, the bride is cautious and mysterious, the exorcist is there. Then there are ghosts of a boy and an old man. Each meeting a tragic end and haunting the protagonist. There is also an old lady who looks suspicious as hell. There are also supernatural mythological characters at one point which I won't give away who it is. Hint is: just black and white. Cultural history Many don't know but this particular ghost marriage ceremony is still being celebrated today mostly by the wealthy if usually when the couple dies in a tragic accident and the ritual is performed by parents and the white reaper to ease their hearts (psychological perspective) and maybe to give some relief to the dead (paranormal perspective). It is also performed as in a living bride or bride groom marrying the dead, it was performed if a person couldn't find a bride or groom in time too (history says) The whole event is made by paper, the couples figures, the house, their wedding bed etc. The dowry and food are real though. At the end of the ceremony when the "paper figures" have "consummated" the wedding by laying down in the bed. The paper elements are burned so as to free the souls. Certain regions do it differently depending on their own specific societal culture. It's done usually when the parent, or the bride or groom receives signs in their dreams from their dead loved ones. IT is done to appease them, gran their needs, make them well in afterlife. The game incorporated many elements from the ritual and formed intelligent puzzles for the player. Gameplay The game play progresses smoothly and bug free and has mostly of point and click variety with an inventory on which you can use items appropriately. The puzzles are there which can be tough for some but not impossible. It includes a puzzle in the last level where nothing makes sense if you don't understand mandarin no matter how much clues you get. So i had to get some help for that and I think its a bit unfair for the English players, but we do appreciate the translations though. Puzzles come in the form of doing exotic rituals and common novice HOG puzzles. I loved the exotic ones with riddles. Its a Middle class horror with some jump scares and spookiness too but not brutal. There is some cooking bits too which I liked.Its pretty straightforward like a normal adventure point and click nothing fancy. The game expands into 4 or 5 locations: House, Village, Apartment, Some temple site,Funeral parlor. Graphics and VA Very eerie and well voiced with emotions. The art really brought out the spookiness. Cultural elements are drawn intricately with great care. Great use of sepia tone and gray tones. Achievements Didn't have much trouble getting most of them, you unlock most of them when you complete the chapters and keep a close look out and check every corner. What gave trouble was the achievement where you have to 100% everything. if you are an achievement hunter please note that when you check the hint at the tutorial you loose this particular one. And when you get an a new object always a popup window appears with the "get hint" button where i personally clicked it at least 3 times and had to "restart" the whole game over and over to get the achievement. So be patient and careful. Keep your mouse on hold always! Overall Nice little short gem to get a splash of spirituality in China and its culture and also to get scared on a Friday night. This has a series which I may probably buy the next one after judging some game play or trailer.

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-20% 6.59€ 5.27€

8.7

1,805

165

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Developer

HeartBeat Plus

Publisher

HeartBeat Plus

Release 02 Dec 2021

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