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Dead Letter Dept.

Dead Letter Dept. is a short horror game mystery experience, where you use your computer keyboard to type in various prompts, and attempt to decipher damaged images as oddities begin to appear.

30 January 2025

Dead Letter Dept. is an indie developed by Belief Engine, released 30 January 2025 on Linux and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Dead Letter Dept. is

Dead Letter Dept. is an indie game developed by Belief Engine and released in 2025. It is available on Linux and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

After moving to the big city, you got yourself an apartment, and secured a temp data entry job- just to keep you afloat till something better comes along. Your official title is a Data Conversion Operator, but you're really more like a warm body who types up all the junk computers still can't read. Day to day, you go to work & process the images displayed on your terminal, and type up whatever text is in front of you. Whatever can be made out, that is. Letters and lost mail, some mangled and twisted, that have travelled from place to place with nowhere else to go. Sometimes the mail you receive is a little strange. Sometimes, it feels like it's talking to you directly through the screen...
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Dead Letter Dept. launched on 30 January 2025, within three weeks of Kingdom Come: Deliverance II, Avowed, Sid Meier's Civilization VII and Lost Records: Bloom & Rage.

Released around the same time: Kingdom Come: Deliverance II, Avowed, Sid Meier's Civilization VII, Lost Records: Bloom & Rage.

Official trailer

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Dead Letter Dept. was released on 30 January 2025 for Linux and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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