AdventureFit check
Is Paradigm worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Adventure game fans who want surreal humour and unusual characters
- Players who prefer point-and-click puzzles over combat-focused gameplay
- Fans of retro-futurist settings with post-apocalyptic themes
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking combat systems, character progression, or action-focused gameplay
- Players who prefer grounded stories and conventional characters over surreal humour
- Players looking for a short, tightly focused genre experience rather than a puzzle-led adventure
Our take on Paradigm
Rather than treating a post-apocalyptic setting as a grim survival scenario, the game mixes it with electronic-music ambition, retro-futurist technology, candy-producing biology, and deliberately absurd supporting characters.
What is Paradigm?
Paradigm is a surreal point-and-click adventure set in Krusz, a post-apocalyptic Eastern European country where dial-up technology and retro-futurist ideas shape the world.
Players control Paradigm, a mutated former product of DUPA genetics who wants to become an electronic music artist. His plans are disrupted when his past returns through a genetically engineered sloth that produces candy. The journey includes strange figures such as a psychopathic superhero, a secretary knight, and a glam metal cult leader pug. The game combines 2D visuals with mature content, dark humour, puzzles, and references to 1970s and 1980s visions of the future, including large computers, space-age furniture, and floppy disks.
How Paradigm plays
- 01Point-and-click adventure
- Progress through a classic adventure structure involving exploration, characters, and puzzles.
- 02Retro-futurist setting
- Krusz combines post-apocalyptic surroundings with dial-up technology, oversized computers, space-age furniture, and floppy disks.
- 03Surreal characters
- The cast includes a candy-producing engineered sloth, a secretary knight, a superhero, and a glam metal cult leader pug.
- 04Dark humour
- Mature situations include assisting a drug addict and going on a date with a toaster.
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Paradigm: platforms & release
Is Paradigm worth it?
It is worth it if: adventure game fans who want surreal humour and unusual characters. Skip it if: players seeking combat systems, character progression, or action-focused gameplay.
Where can I download Paradigm?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Paradigm's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Paradigm on?
Windows, macOS and Linux.
