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Paper Islands

Paper Islands is a mapmaking game where you play an explorer more interested fame than honest map-making. Sail on a living map that reacts to your changes, discover rare goods, manipulate frivolous rulers, and make your name by charting the vastness of the unknown world.

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Napping Raccoon
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Napping Raccoon
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Coming Soon
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About the Game

Take to the waves in the Age of Sail and chart the vastness of the unknown world—or, you know, just make it up. Captain your ship through perilous waters in search of silks, spices and glory. Manipulate frivolous rulers and take advantage of their patronage to further your interests.

Sail the High Seas

Explore the procedurally generated world via sailship.

Chart Your Discoveries

Identify terrain you see—are they land, clouds, or icebergs, or something else?

Establish Sea Lanes

Chart novel routes through the sea to acquire rare goods, then jealously guard these routes from pirates and raiders.

Shape Global History

Who you chose to trade with and what you choose to give them shape what they will invent or who they will meet. 

Fake Discoveries

History is full of explorers who falsified discoveries to manipulate patrons and receive patronage, why not join their ranks?

Write Your Legacy

Experience the emergent narrative that happens as the result of your choices throughout the game.

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