PAPERHEAD Guides
Choose what you need help with: opening chapters, combat equipment, movement, challenges or PC controls.
Getting started
PAPERHEAD Beginner Guide: Movement and Your First Weapon
Learn the opening controls, use kicks and slides, and reach the chapter where your first gun appears.
PAPERHEAD First Gun: When Do You Get It?
Your first gun appears in Chapter 3. Finishing the first two chapters without a firearm is normal.
PAPERHEAD Characters: Roster and Early Unlocks
Find the character roster, the Drone 0 and Jeb unlock routes, and how character progress affects later runs.
Combat & equipment
PAPERHEAD Pencil Guide: Object808, Healing and Bombs
Use Object808 to draw bombs, erase corpses for health, and support your gun ammo supply.
PAPERHEAD Clips Guide: Currency and Shop Buttons
Spend regular clips on supplies, use gold clips for upgrades, and choose the correct side of the shop terminal.
PAPERHEAD Weapons Guide: Guns, Pencil and Controls
Browse the six gun types and Object808, with the default attack and weapon-switching controls.
Movement
Troubleshooting
PAPERHEAD Rebind Keys Fix: Mouse and Menu Controls
If menu clicks or key rebinding do not respond, try disabling gamepad detection and test the controls again.
PAPERHEAD Game Crashing Fix: Alternate Launch Option
Try the second Steam launch option if PAPERHEAD crashes during fights or fails to launch normally.
Challenges & secrets
PAPERHEAD Survival Mode: Movement and Supply Strategy
Keep moving, replenish bombs at sharpeners, and combine supplies with healing as Survival Mode becomes more crowded.
PAPERHEAD Score Guide: Multipliers and Perfect Rank
Maintain Freshness and Movement, protect your combo, and work toward the time, score and secret goals for Perfect rank.
PAPERHEAD Chapter 2 Third S: Where to Look
If you have the voice-room and fridge marks, look behind the wall by the first step of the bunnyhop room for the remaining S.