Letter Lost

Running the post office in Nightvale

Huge fan of this game. I think the gameplay loop is really fun and they did a great job breaking up the possible repetitiveness that a game like this could have fallen into. I think the writting is good and the story is really engaging, and the voice acting that is present is really good at making the world feel alive. I'm also a huge fan of the art, both 2D and 3D. The office space is beautifuly done and all of the characters are beautifully drawn and well designed. You can tell how much love went into the game.

This is actually a neat little game. It involves being trapped in a post office for several weeks while various strange and bizzaire things happen. The game reminds me a little of Cultist Simulator in its undirected exploration and use of cosmic horror. The game is mostly a puzzle game and several of these puzzles are fairly challenging. The game goes in a seven day loop pseudo-loop where time appears to keep resetting but does not reset exactly. Individuals show up regularly with "quests" for you and you need to decide how to handle them. If you screw up their quest, you won't get another chance to do it until next week. The loop is actually I think where the game struggles the most. Seven days of game time is a lot to cool your heels through while waiting for another chance to do what you want to do. I think there is an item in the game that lets you skip time ahead but I never found it. Each day is mostly spent stamping mail which you don't apparently need to do for the story but you do need to do to get money which you need to buy items so you'll probably need to do more mail stamping than you'd prefer just to buy items unless you cheat. The game's biggest weakness, aside from its long loop cycle, is that all the quests are very short. The game is broken up into three "Acts" and certain quest givers only show up in each act. If you failed to finish their quest before things moved on to the next act, too bad. Start a new game and try again. I wish that the game felt a little more cohesive: That there were more quests and characters that spanned all three acts instead of only appearing in one. Also, if you are going to have quests that only exist in one Act then I wish that how those quests were completed would have meaningful consequences for the world, gameplay, and story. I think that both of these additions would have meaningfully strengthened the game. Game is a little buggy at this moment but nothing overly frustrating. All in all the game was enjoyable and I thought that the voice actor for "Liz" did a wonderful job giving her character some cheerful menace. I'm looking forward to what these developers come up with next.