Paper Trail

The fog rolled in, and now you're lost. You find an empty ranger cabin high on the mountain, and you remember what Nana always said: stay put, and send a signal.

So you fold paper airplanes and throw them down the mountain toward the lodge in the valley, each one a little farther than the last.

• Fly with one button. Pull up to climb, let go to glide, and dive to build speed. Learn to stretch every flight over ridges, through forests, and past the waterfall.
• Build better planes, and see them. Unlock new folds and papers, from a sketchbook page to birch bark to kite fabric. Every add-on shows on your plane: tape over the creases, paper clips on the nose, tail flaps, crayon wax, and feathers tucked into the tail.
• Throw from higher and faster. Climb from the doorstep to the woodpile, a tall pine, and a lookout tower, and upgrade from a bare hand to a rubber band, a slingshot, crossed ski poles, and a giant ski-lift spring.
• Scavenge around the cabin. Open drawers, check coat pockets, lift the tarp, and shake the branch with the kite in it. The closet, the attic, an old campsite, and more each hide four finds (and plenty of silly ones). Robber the gray jay will help, for a cracker.
• A story in a sketchbook. Every landmark your planes reach adds a moving picture to your journal, and somewhere down in the valley, someone is starting to notice the planes.
• Wait for better wind. Every throw has its own weather and time of day. Don't like the wind? Wait at the window and watch the windsock swing.
• 30 achievements to chase, with new crayon doodles for your plane as rewards.
• About 2 to 3 hours to the ending, with Free Flight afterward.

The whole game is made of cut paper: hand-cut mountains, paper birds, and a paper trail behind every plane. After each throw, a pencil map on the results note shows exactly where it flew.

Controls

• Throw: click, tap, or press Space (A on a gamepad).
• Pull up: hold the left mouse button, Space, Up, or W. On a touchscreen, hold the top half of the screen. On a gamepad, hold A, D-pad up, or RT.
• Dive: hold the right mouse button, S, or Down. On a touchscreen, hold the bottom half. On a gamepad, hold D-pad down or LT.
• Pause: tap the pause button in the top right corner, or press Esc or P.
• Cabin tabs: click or tap them, press 1 to 6 or Q and E, or use LB and RB on a gamepad.
• Searching: click or tap things to open them, or pick one with the arrow keys or D-pad and open it with Enter or A.
• After a throw: click or tap a button on the results note (A on a gamepad). R throws again, and C or Esc goes back to the cabin.

Progress saves automatically in your browser. Switching tabs mid-flight pauses the throw. On a phone, turn it sideways.