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Letters - a written adventure

5am Games GmbH · 2022-02-09

SteamGOG

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Feb 09, 2022 (Nintendo Switch), Feb 09, 2022 (Mac), Feb 09, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Letters is a fun word puzzle game about friendship, growing up and finding your place in life. Follow Sarah, a shy girl from Switzerland, by moving through her pen pal letters and chat messages. Use the power of words to solve riddles, interact with her friends and decide who she will grow up to be.

Letters - a written adventure is an Adventure and Indie game released in 2022, priced at $14.99, with an estimated 20,000 .. 50,000 owners and Very Positive (91% of 291 reviews).

19
playing now
91%
positive of 291 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$14.99
steam price (US)

19 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 22:00 UTC (census sample)

Letters begins in 1998 as Sarah, an eleven-year-old girl from Switzerland, writes the first letter to Katya, her new pen pal from Russia. Through letters and online messengers, they continue to stay in touch over many years. They become good friends and share their dreams, worries and everyday life with each other. Sarah’s story is relatable and still one of a kind. Especially because you get to chose how it plays out. You take on the role of a tiny Sarah, moving through letters and messages. Along the way, you have to make decisions for her that will impact her life and change the person sh(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 19 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 25 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~3/week).
  • · Review velocity down 22% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 25% of 29,024 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 5.8k–13k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 291 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$14.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $1.49 at IndieGala Store (2024-12-05) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 127 of 185 observed days · $13.50 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
464620222026Week of 2022-02-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

1902026-09-15 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 15:00 — 1 players2026-09-19 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 14:00 — 1 players2026-09-23 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 18:00 — 4 players2026-10-07 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 09:00 — 1 players2026-10-09 16:00 — 1 players2026-10-11 00:00 — 2 players2026-10-12 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 15:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 22:00 — 19 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$14.99$1.462022-02-092026-10-152022-02-09 — best price $11.202022-05-17 — best price $13.392022-07-25 — best price $10.492022-10-11 — best price $10.492022-12-12 — best price $8.242023-02-14 — best price $8.242023-04-04 — best price $14.992023-05-15 — best price $14.992023-07-13 — best price $14.992023-09-01 — best price $14.992023-10-20 — best price $8.242023-12-13 — best price $6.742024-02-05 — best price $14.992024-03-23 — best price $14.992024-06-10 — best price $3.382024-07-30 — best price $14.992024-09-24 — best price $11.802024-11-21 — best price $11.802025-01-21 — best price $14.992025-03-21 — best price $3.002025-05-12 — best price $2.402025-07-16 — best price $2.992025-09-15 — best price $2.542025-11-03 — best price $2.542025-12-11 — best price $2.472026-01-31 — best price $14.992026-03-18 — best price $3.002026-04-20 — best price $10.252026-06-03 — best price $2.242026-07-31 — best price $1.462026-09-07 — best price $2.252026-09-27 — best price $2.252026-10-15 — best price $14.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

24
achievements tracked
80.8%
earned "Power of Words"
32.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsFamily Sharing2 DLC

1 supported languages: English

Post-launch support: 2 DLC released, first 2022-02-09 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)29023%24
Switch (Nintendo)60%0

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

Player tags

CuteFunnyColorfulAdventureWord GameHand-drawnStory RichAtmosphericWell-WrittenChoices Matter

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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