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First Draft of the Revolution

by game_tinkerer  • 
First Draft of the Revolution
Game
In this browser story, you revise letters before the characters send them. Trying a different wording can bring a motive or a worry into view that someone would rather leave unsaid. The story moves on when you send the letter, and the revisions give you time to understand the person writing it.
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Every Letter (2022)

by game_tinkerer  • 
Every Letter
Game
Released
A client asks you to put a feeling into words, and you get to do the typing yourself. The commissions range from hellos to love letters, with some clients’ stories crossing over as more requests arrive. A request tells you what the writer wants to say and leaves the actual wording up to you.
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Hoping This Finds You Well (2023)

by game_tinkerer  • 
Hoping This Finds You Well
Game
Released
Slide a letter across the screen to move between the professor who wrote it and the professor who opens it. The gap between those moments gives small gestures time to register. The short visual novel follows the correspondence for several months, as one of the two men approaches a decision he cannot undo.
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√Letter - Root Letter - (2017)

by game_tinkerer  • 
√Letter - Root Letter -
Game
Released
A message delivered fifteen years late sends you to your former pen pal’s hometown. You bring earlier letters along as evidence, comparing what she told you with the accounts of the people who knew her. The old correspondence gives you a reason to question a friendly detail that you might otherwise take at face value.
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Dear Devere (2020)

by game_tinkerer  • 
Dear Devere
Game
Released
In 1935, a letter from the woods at the edge of town interrupts Angela Bard’s quiet life on the Scottish isles. You follow her growing correspondence and examine letters, postcards, and other documents. The same writing that brings her closer to Devere also gives her reasons to ask who he is.
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Grief Like a Stray Dog (2025)

by game_tinkerer  • 
Grief Like a Stray Dog
Game
Released
Thirteen-year-old Nadia takes over part of her mother’s postal route in a village during World War II. She delivers ordinary letters alongside notices that tell families someone will never return. The developers drew on family memories and used some real letters, which gives the village’s changing routines a personal weight.
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Kind Words (lo fi chill beats to write to) (2019)

by game_tinkerer  • 
Kind Words (lo fi chill beats to write to)
Game
Released
Other players send in letters asking for encouragement or advice. You can write a reply, send a request yourself, or pass a small note to a stranger. This is the choice for readers who want to practice listening to an actual person and work out what would be worth saying back.
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Sylvan Disappearance

by game_tinkerer  • 
Sylvan Disappearance
Game
Mirabelle’s friends Martin and Célia write to her while she goes about her life in a seaside city. Their letters give her another view of what is happening around her. You can choose the order of some of the correspondence, which changes how you put together its details as the mystery unfolds.
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A Letter To Ed

by game_tinkerer  • 
A Letter To Ed
Game
Your grandmother leaves a final letter to an old friend nobody around you seems to remember. Before you can send it, you have to look through the correspondence she left behind. The investigation makes each postcard or odd detail matter because it brings a real person in her life into view.
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Echo Letters

by game_tinkerer  • 
Echo Letters
Game
Read the letters arriving at your desk and decide what needs a reply. The archive and notebook let you go back over details while new messages open up a story of people separated by a border. This short browser mystery uses the gaps in the correspondence to give small pieces of evidence extra weight.
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Mail Atelier

by game_tinkerer  • 
Mail Atelier
Game
Clients tell you what feeling they want their letters to convey. Choose phrases that suit the request, then stamp the envelope and press a seal into the wax. Where Every Letter leaves the words open, this small browser game asks you to listen closely enough to choose what sounds right for someone else.
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Letters of Bernard Thorne (2025)

by game_tinkerer  • 
Letters of Bernard Thorne
Game
Released
Bernard’s old letters take you back into moments he would rather leave behind. You explore his house from his motorized wheelchair, and finding letters is how the horror story takes you into his past. Letters from hopeful periods sit beside those from much harder ones, making the character more than the worst things he remembers.
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Milky Way Mail

by game_tinkerer  • 
Milky Way Mail
Game
There are letters drifting through space that nobody expected to be read. As you collect them, four separate voices emerge and you learn what each person was trying to put into words. It’s a short, contemplative way to see how writing a letter can matter even if the intended recipient never opens it.
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