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Paper Airplane

Review

This simple flying game challenges you to catch updrafts and navigate a house.


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Platform
Adobe Flash
Released
2008
Genre
Perspective
Side view
Size
100.53 KB
Rating
0 votes

About Paper Airplane

Paper Airplane was one of those simple Flash games you'd find on a school computer or a casual gaming site. It belonged to that era where a single, clear idea was enough to fill a few minutes between tasks. The game captured a quiet, domestic sort of flight, steering clear of grand adventures for something more familiar.

You control a single paper airplane, guiding it left and right through the rooms of a house. The main goal is to keep flying, avoiding walls, furniture, and the floor. You rely on updrafts from sources like heating vents or lamps to gain altitude; timing your movements to catch these lifts is the core challenge. The plane drifts downward constantly, so the pacing is a steady, gentle scramble to find the next thermal. It feels like a precarious, floaty balancing act, a quiet test of patience more than reflexes.