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The Sorting Office

Sort the mail of a 1950s harbor town, and notice what doesn't add up

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About this game

You are the new clerk at a small post office. Each shift you sort letters and parcels into pigeonholes using addresses, postmarks and a town map that keeps changing as people move. It starts as a pleasant sorting puzzle, then a parcel turns up addressed to a house that burned down years ago, and the job becomes an investigation.

The look is paper-and-ink, red mail bags and faded blue stamps, with crisp typewriter sound effects. It takes about 5 hours across 20 shifts. It suits fans of paperwork games and quiet mysteries. The caveat: shifts 12 and 13 are long and repetitive, and you cannot skip the sorting to get to the story.

Highlights

  • 01Sorting puzzles that turn into a mystery
  • 02Hand-lettered addresses and stamps
  • 03Full mouse or controller support

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