DEAD LETTER DEPT.

95% positive of 1,789 Steam reviews

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

What players say

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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

Tagged by players

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

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. 2 found it helpful.
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Recommended
What a fantastically creepy little game. I picked this up because I saw horror and typing and thought it was worth a shot. The first time as the game progressed, I was intrigued but I wasn't quite sure what was going on or if i was supposed to be doing anything specific, but it was so creepy and atmospheric, I was oddly hooked. I kept thinking about it after I played it, so I tried it again and ended up finding a…
4.3 h played when written. 1 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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