Letter Lost

I really wanted to like this game. I'm a huge fan of games where you're just doing a job, and I love weird psychological elements. The aesthetic and feel of the game is great, too. This game is just poorly executed. There are a bunch of game-breaking and QOL bugs, but that's surprisingly not my biggest problem with it. The major problem I have is that it feels lazy. You "reset" every week, but nothing actually resets except for NPCs acting like they don't know who you are, so if they were trying to go for a roguelike or -lite game they failed. You have unique rules each day (ex RTSing all the mail for a region) but they get pretty repetitive and feel pointless and bloaty. There doesn't really feel like there's much of a plot. One of the puzzles doesn't even do anything when you complete it (could be a bug but idk). The goal of the game is clearly to escape the post office, but you can go several weeks without receiving any new information or furthering the plot at all. It feels like a half-finished early access game despite being a full release. It looks like this is the dev's first game, and I'm very supportive of indie developers, but this just isn't very good. I'm also a bit irritated with the vibe of the game in general. The major points of inspiration for the game are clearly HP Lovecraft's work and the podcast Welcome to Night Vale. One of the regions is called Wistvale, and the emblem is a giant eye. The radio broadcasts are clearly attempting to mimic Night Vale's coverage of bizarre events, and much of the dialogue is poorly written. It's ok to draw inspiration from other works, but it shouldn't be as blatantly obvious as it is in this game. It all feels like "Ooh, isn't all of this so WeEiIRrDD??? Everything is WEEIIRRDD!" without having an actual purpose. Overall it's a ham-fisted attempt at both whimsy and horror. It feels like the devs got lost in their own sauce and forgot what they were doing. almost 5 hours in I literally said out loud "What's the point? What am I even doing?" and exited game. Overall the game has a lot of potential, but it needs A LOT of work before I would even consider it to be worth the 20 bucks I paid for it. Fix the bugs and tighten up your plot. This should have been an EA release. AAA games get flamed for full-releasing a half-finished game; indie studios cannot afford to make that misstep.

Very addicting

Although this game still has some issues, the core gameplay loop and puzzle-solving are extremely satisfying. I've also loved the overall tone of the setting and story, as it manages to be both eerie and cozy in equal measure. The setting and humor will probably appeal to any fans of Welcome to Night Vale or the Strange Horticulture/Strange Antiquities series. Overall, this is an imperfect but charming game.

I hope the developers fix this game. I haven't been able to get past the applicant screen without the game force quitting itself and sometimes restarting my entire steam deck, despite 2 hours of troubleshooting. This game looks incredible and my partner and I desperately want to play it and would rather not return it but the game is unplayable at present.

I am not a huge gamer and typically prefer playing the legacy systems and games from my youth (I'm 53), but I really enjoy playing Letter Lost. The "Choose Your Own Adventure" of it really speaks to my childhood, and the music, graphics, writing, etc. are top notch. Simultaneously causing anxiety and relaxation is a real accomplishment and before I know it, I've been playing for hours and it feels like minutes. I really can't recommend this game highly enough, especially for us olds!

Love this game. That's it. That's all you need to know. Play it

The game refused to let me stamp letters after the first 2 on the first day. I thought it might be a controller issue, so I tried playing with my keyboard where I discovered that the Controls settings list does not recognize that a keyboard isn't QWERTY... For accessibility purpose, I always keep a screenshot of control mappings on a second screen for the first few hours of any game. But here it was useless as the listed keys didn't match my keyboard. The tutorial doesn't let you get a feel of the room, you get interrupted all the time before you can even understand what you are supposed to do. I guess it's supposed to get you into the ambaince, but the only thing it did to me was annoying me so badly that I needed to get out of that game ASAP.

This is certainly a labor of love by a small dev team and I'm enjoying the intrigue! The puzzles aren't too difficult, while still posing a challenge (I haven't solved, much less found, them all yet)! It's creepy yet cozy; I'm truly hooked