The Sorting Bureau

the reason this game fails to work is the true lack of purpose that haunts it. there's no [i]reason[/i] to be doing anything-- at best, you're receiving a faceless thank you. there's never any sense of completion-- unlike the arcane library, where you can look upon your progress, or a little to the left, where you can at least be rewarded for thinking. the sorting bureau strictly encourages tedium and mindlessness. additionally, i found it to be far too click heavy, and in combination with the repetitive sound design, made everything feel like a chore. definitely not a chronic pain friendly game. none of that matters compared to what stuck out to me the most: the carelessness of japanese representation in this game. i mean, seriously? was there ever a more tropey, orientalist view on japanese culture than this? the characters are flat stereotypes at best, and the culture feels like more of a pastiche than anything remotely resembling a decent representation. it literally feels like "game but japan", and you can tell there was minimal, at best, research done into japanese living, work, culture, language, food, horticulture, and honourifics. even the yen is thoughtless-- there was a perfect opportunity to actually pay homage to japanese history there, and the devs rather decided they'd slap clovers on it. seriously, do better.

Прекрасная игра! Даже несмотря на то, что я поиграла всего 30 минут (тяжело играть дольше за один присест, когда у тебя есть признаки сдвг). 1. Можно гладить кота. 2. Можно сортировать по цвету, форме, категории и даже в относительно свободном порядке на определенных уровнях. 3. В мире, где многие разработчики используют готовые некачественные ассеты, здесь графика просто потрясающая. Даже если это готовые ассеты, то они очень круто сделаны и гармонично сочетаются в игре. 4. Не встретила ни одного бага. Возможно, пока что, а возможно разработчики действительно хорошо поработали над тестированием всевозможных багов и недоработок. 5. Есть украинский язык. Хоть я и не носитель этого языка, но в 2026 году это просто приятно и человечно со стороны разработчиков. Обычно я "пират карибского моря", если вы понимаете, о чем я, но эта игра стоит своих денег. P.S интересно сколько всего уровней в игре и какова ее длительность, но надеюсь, что разработчики и в будущем будут добавлять хотя бы несколько уровней в год. Или придумают еще что-то интересное. P.P.S После умственной работы самое то <3

I really tried to want to like this game, and forced myself to at least play until I got all of the steam achievements. I love organizational games and this was hard to play, and I only played for less than 6 hours over the course of a few days. Even for an organizational game it is extremely repetitive, with only two forms of sorting (putting items into categorized boxes or onto a piece of paper with outlines of where things go), repeating levels, and repeating messages from the characters. The other characters are not visually shown and they only communicate via notes or letters that fall very flat and make it difficult to connect with the characters and influence the player to want to help them (since there is seemingly no monetary gain from this little organizing business lol) or progress in the game since there is not really a storyline or goal that is mentioned (a REALLY good shop-running game to reference for amazing player and character relationships that influence a player to want to continue is Trinket Goblin). The game also isn't well optimized. The game is quite literally 100% clicking, and a lot of the related mechanics don't work consistently. The items hitboxes overlap in most levels (which is to be expected) but they are much larger than the actual icon for the item causing you to pick up the wrong thing often*. The click and release mechanic for tossing things in the boxes is also wildly inconsistent, some things flying past the boxes to bounce back* across the screen at the speed of sound, and others not even registering as being tossed and going approximately two inches before stopping, despite the same motion and force being used. The boxes can be switched around to make sorting easier, which is nice, but items get stuck under the boxes when they move or when items are tossed, which is annoying to get them back out from under (not impossible, just more frustrating than a "cozy game" should be), or items will slide out of finished boxes and get stuck on the screen and not be able to moved back into the box, but it doesn't keep you from finishing the level it's just annoying. There are also levels where boxes are left empty, and now even levels where there is a second round of sorting that just has you put everything from the first half of the level back into one box instead of new sections (which I believe was caused by reworking levels in the newest update to not repeat the sorting perimeters as often). The levels where you sort items onto a paper are, to put it simply, just not satisfying. There is no rhyme or reason as to where things go, it's not consistently sorted by size, shape, color, or even symmetry? And some of them have designated colored outlines that determine where specific colorings of certain items go, but the colors don't match the colors of the items well (especially when it comes to the pasta???). The newest update added the ability to add items into your hand with right-click instead, which unfortunately works less than half of the time. Everything marked by an * was also claimed to be fixed in said update and was not. I truly think this game has a good concept and art style, but it really needs developed more before I would ever recommend it to anyone. Adding some sort of storyline or visuals of the characters would help the feel a lot, and trying to spice up the levels a bit in terms of more items or new ways to sort. I think the team is already off to a good start with following comments and reviews to know what needs work, and I think this game could turn out really well with a few additions.

This is digital fidgeting and my brain is all in... you either get it or you don't

The game, while interesting in concept is poorly executed. The sorting mechanic is mundane and repetitive. There is seemingly little goal other than sort and you can't even be wrong with your sorting? The game just...doesn't let you be wrong so there isn't even any challenge. The sheet "puzzles" are unsatisfying as you end up placing the pieces in weird ways that don't even look nice in the end. The multi-pick up mechanic is poorly designed and only works half the time and its just generally not much of a game.

Работаю на складе валберис, сортирую товары,игра помогает отдохнуть после работы. Ставлю КЛАСС!

Waste of time. Its awful, colors dont match. Not enough things to put them on the grid nicely and just putting them itto the box - constantly the same thngs. Boring and istead of relaxing - it made me frustrated. It could have been so perfect and nice but it looks ugly and rushed. Im so dissapointed. Its noting like "Little to the left" I wish I didnt buy it.