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DEAD LETTER DEPT.

Mike Monroe · Belief Engine · 2025-01-30

Steam

Indie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jan 30, 2025 (Linux), Jan 30, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

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.

95%
positive of 1.9k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$14.99
steam price (US)
Dead Letter Dept. is a 2025 indie psychological horror typing game developed by Mike Monroe, and published by Belief Engine. It was released on Steam on January 30th 2025.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 55 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~7/week).
  • · Review velocity down 26% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (336 reviews).
  • · Top 17% of 19,763 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 37k–83k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,853 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $9.74 at Steam (2026-04-10)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
32632620252026Week of 2025-01-30: 326 positiveWeek of 2025-01-30: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-02-06: 94 positiveWeek of 2025-02-06: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-02-13: 62 positiveWeek of 2025-02-13: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-02-20: 42 positiveWeek of 2025-02-20: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-02-27: 43 positiveWeek of 2025-03-06: 22 positiveWeek of 2025-03-06: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-13: 38 positiveWeek of 2025-03-13: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-03-20: 23 positiveWeek of 2025-03-27: 19 positiveWeek of 2025-03-27: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-04-03: 17 positiveWeek of 2025-04-10: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-04-17: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-04-24: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-05-08: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-15: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-05-22: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-05-29: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-05-29: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-05: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-06-12: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-06-19: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-06-19: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-26: 20 positiveWeek of 2025-06-26: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-03: 22 positiveWeek of 2025-07-03: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-10: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-07-17: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-07-24: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-07-31: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-08-07: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-08-14: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-08-14: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-21: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-08-28: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-09-04: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-09-11: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-09-18: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-09-25: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-10-02: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-10-02: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-09: 55 positiveWeek of 2025-10-09: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-10-16: 46 positiveWeek of 2025-10-16: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-23: 31 positiveWeek of 2025-10-30: 45 positiveWeek of 2025-10-30: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-06: 18 positiveWeek of 2025-11-13: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-11-13: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-20: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-11-27: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-12-04: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-12-04: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-11: 18 positiveWeek of 2025-12-11: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-12-18: 33 positiveWeek of 2025-12-25: 42 positiveWeek of 2025-12-25: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-01-08: 19 positiveWeek of 2026-01-15: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-01-15: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-22: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-01-29: 16 positiveWeek of 2026-01-29: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-05: 89 positiveWeek of 2026-02-05: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-02-12: 36 positiveWeek of 2026-02-19: 18 positiveWeek of 2026-02-19: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-02-26: 13 positiveWeek of 2026-03-05: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-03-05: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-12: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-03-12: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-19: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-03-26: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-04-02: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-04-02: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-09: 39 positiveWeek of 2026-04-09: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-04-16: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-04-16: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-04-23: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-04-30: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-05-07: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-05-07: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-14: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-05-14: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-21: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-05-21: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-28: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-06-04: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-06-04: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-11: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-06-18: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-06-25: 13 positiveWeek of 2026-07-02: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-07-02: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-07-09: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-07-16: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-07-23: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-07-23: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-30: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-07-30: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-06: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-08-13: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-13: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-20: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-08-27: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-27: 2 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)4466%17

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

DarkShortHorrorTypingMysterySurrealStylizedEmotionalDystopian Simulation

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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