DEAD LETTER DEPT.

bought this as typing speed practice and got possessed instead

"hang on, just gonna send this postcard with graphic details of me cannibalising someone to some fucking guy in Idaho" - Dahpprentice, probably (Apprenmer? Dahpprenmer? I'm overthinking this) Ever play Typing of the Dead? Well, this isn't that. This is a horror narrative tackling themes of hopelessness, oppression, and the wonderful world of gainful (not really) employment. I've actually played this a few times, but I couldn't finish it, usually because I had other things to do and the game would only let me save once before it deleted said save, which was kind of a pain in the ass. I get that it's meant to be done in largely one run as it's a shorter title, but still - little tedious. I finally got around to finishing it this final time by mostly speedrunning the game, which took me... just over an hour? Anyway, I digress. Dead Letter Dept. is a game that challenges the typical gameplay loop by literally putting you through a loop, reflecting the monotony of certain jobs that real...

Finally a game that tackles one of the scariest experiences of all, being stuck in a shitty data entry job Pretty unique short and sweet concept. Not only was it genuinely oppressive (props to the audio design), I didn’t expect to come away from it feeling more pensive than anything. Since you’re actually forced to type out every postcard word for word with minimal mistakes, it did a good job progressing the player from paying most attention to all the unnerving sounds and computer glitches (a bit cheap but works), to being hyperfocused on trying to push through the intentional repetition. You know it's a dead-end job but you need to make rent, so you have to keep typing. But the more you type, the more mind-numbing it gets, the more your fingers start to creak, the time you need to make your quota keeps getting shorter and the postcards get more and more illegible. The walls are closing in and you wish you could find something else already, but rent is still due and this is all y...

As someone who's last job of 3 years was working as a document specialist (which is just data entry clerk with a fancy name) I was immediately interested in this game and it did not disappoint. It got quite a few scares out of me, the atmosphere is amazing, sound design is great (the keyboard clicking noises was satisfying in itself) and the story, while still a bit lost on me is intriguing. I see a little piece of myself in this game. Thank you for making it ❤️

Goddamn a+ game. Dead letter dept. achieves what mouthwashing could never.

My first playthrough was 2.5 hours long. I felt a bit ill half way through, which I think is the mark of a really good horror game (especially considering the game has no gore to feel ill from). It also struck a special chord with me, as I recently moved abroad and into my own proverbial "big city". The game made me think about everyday work, about how we build ourselves and our selves around our work, about letters and about all of the ways that something said might never meet the person it was meant for. Thanks for the experience, I had a good, horrific Friday evening!

Fun mix of typing with horror, though it desperately needs a brightness slider. Try the demo to check if you can actually see anything first. I got this on offer through the Bloody Keys bundle, since I already had [b]Blood Typers[/b]. I like typing, and typing games, but usually have a very low tolerance for genuinely scary horror. I can handle campy over the top stuff like [b]Blood Typers[/b] and the [b]Resident Evil[/b] games, but have never been able to get far in games like [b]Amnesia[/b] and [b]Phasmophobia[/b]. I [i]have[/i] gotten all the way through to the first possible ending in [b]Dead Letter Dept[/b], so I think it's safe to say that it's on the lower end of scariness, though there are some slight jump-scares with static and visual effects on the screen. So far none of them have come with a loud noise though, which is usually the bigger problem. I did resort to walking backwards or while facing the floor near the end of the game though, so there might be things I delibera...

Honestly I didnt know much going into this. Ive really enjoyed this resurgence of lo fi horror and this game is just it. It is stylistic with out being hamfisted. It is interesting with out showing too much. It is just really really rad.

This is a pretty unique game and some parts are very scary and tense such as when you are leaving your apartment and some ghoul is following you but I ultimately gave up because I encountered two parts in the game where the instructions were very unclear. I made a post about one of these sections and the dev responded very quickly which was nice but when I reloaded the game to try again the game put me in another section where I had no idea what to do and I just gave up after that. This section involved typing in a series of letters exactly as shown on the monitor, however halfway through the letters turn into a < symbol which you can't type in. And if you try to experiment and input what you think it is, your progress on that section is erased and you have to type everything in to get to that point again. I'm not a big fan of that type of game design. I'm not sure why you are only allowed to save and load once either. I hope this person does keep making games though because it's a uni...

Excellent atmosphere and build-up of tension. I've been wanting something almost exactly like this (I was thinking photocopying stuff instead of mail), and it's really cool to see it realized!