Paper Cut Mansion

Paper Cut Mansion is a roguelite horror game set in a papercraft world. You play as Toby, a police detective investigating a mysterious old mansion floor by floor. Each run lets you collect evidence for your Evidence Board, while the mansion’s strange characters may help or hinder you. The story unfolds as you progress, and your performance and decisions affect which of 27 possible endings you reach.

Runs through the mansion

The mansion’s rooms are procedurally generated, and each run brings challenges, loot, clues, quests, secrets and logic puzzles. Perma-death means a failed run starts over, but you learn more about the game’s mechanics as you go. Completing quests grants temporary perks, and the choices available can differ between runs.

You can unlock abilities and equipment, collect upgrades and customize your kit before each run to shape your build. Items offer different ways to tackle enemies, from fighting at close range or shooting from afar to sending a drone into combat or laying traps and turrets with an engineering build. Between levels, musical interludes reveal more of the story.

Dimensions

Portals on each floor lead to alternate versions of the same location, with different aesthetics and gameplay. You always start in the NeoCortex dimension, which plays like an escape room filled with challenges, puzzles and surprises. Quests then take you to the Reptilian Complex, where monsters overrun a fiery version of the mansion, and the Limbic System, where the mansion is covered in ice. In the Limbic System, cold damages you, so you need to move quickly and stay near heat sources while searching for hidden items or torches to light up.

Characters and puzzles

The mansion contains a variety of enemies, each with its own AI and unexpected behaviours. Its logical puzzles are designed to make you think, and the shifting rooms offer new discoveries across runs.