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DEAD LETTER DEPT.

95% positive of 1,789 Steam reviews

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Released
2025
Steam Deck
Playable
Platforms
Steam

Made by Mike Monroe, Belief Engine. Published by Belief Engine.

About the game

Working at a data entry job in the big city, you type up and transcribe the lost mail and letters that have nowhere else to go. But as the days carry on oddities in the mail start to emerge, and cracks begin to appear.

Tagged by players

  • Typing
  • Short
  • Dystopian
  • Experimental
  • Text-Based
  • Surreal
  • Supernatural
  • Mystery
  • Horror
  • Psychological Horror
  • Emotional
  • Procedural Generation

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Overwhelmingly Positive

What players say

  • Recommended
    Dead Letter Dept. was not at all what I was expecting but I enjoyed every second of it. The less you know about this game, the better! Just trust all of the positive steam reviews and play it for yourself.

    3 h played when written. 5 found it helpful.

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  • Recommended
    Excellent game. Very unnerving at times. It hits close to him for me personally, as I also work nights alone.

    4.4 h played when written. 0 found it helpful.

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  • Not recommended
    Self-indulgently supposedly weird. Meant to be chilling but in fact utterly boring, covering extremely well-trodden territory we've seen a million times in much better games. To make a comparison: I hated "Mouthwashing" but it's a vastly better game than this. I got bored by "Cabin Factory" but it held my attention way longer than this. The narrative text was clunky and badly written. Moving between apartment and…

    2.3 h played when written. 1 found it helpful.

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