DEAD LETTER DEPT.
Fair · Short indie · 2025
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a BANGER price before.
Today
$14.99Fair
On its price record
$4.16BANGER
- Length
- 2.5h
- Value
- $6.00/hr
- Reviews
- 95% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GTX 460, 3 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.
Working at a data entry job in the big city, you type up and transcribe the lost mail and letters that have nowhere else to go. But as the days carry on oddities in the mail start to emerge, and cracks begin to appear.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
April 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $9.74. 12 discounts in the 2 years on record. They run about 18 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. The math puts its BANGER price at $4.16. No recorded sale has reached it yet.
On value it sits in the top 6 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Home Safety Hotline ($14.99, scores 65) beats it on value, while it beats Paratopic ($4.99, scores 28).
4 of the 385 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written January 2025 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 87 percent of the 233 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 13 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 2.5 hours. Doing everything runs 10, 3.9 times as long.
The drop-off
50% start to 2% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
2 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 00:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
The biggest scare was the mention of housing prices. Otherwise, great atmosphere with a great ambient soundtrack.
great quick atmospheric horror experience, it felt like this game was tailor-made for me as someone who loves typing fast and horror games, but hates jumpscares. completed one ending super quick, and am interested to see what other endings there are out there!
a commentary of what harm we've done to ourselves through technology; this horror dawned on me months later i want to unplay this game
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
DEAD LETTER DEPT. scores 62/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1627350/dead-letter-deptReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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