Hi all! I just released Return to Sender, a short story-driven desk game. It’s free and plays in your browser.

▸ Play it here: https://red-thread.itch.io/return-to-sender

You are the only clerk at Branch 7B of the Lesser Fold post office. Customers slide letters and parcels across your counter. You weigh them, count the stamps, check the rulebook and bring the rubber stamp down: ACCEPT or RETURN.

The catch is the Ministry of Post. A new rule arrives by pneumatic tube every morning. It starts sensibly with one stamp per 100 grams. Then the Ministry is on the fourth floor, so mail to the Capital needs an extra stamp for the stairs. No parcel may outweigh the Minister’s cat. Mail to persons named Gustav is suspended. By day ten you’re juggling eight rules at once.

Your regulars are a problem too. Mrs. Pell keeps writing to her late husband in Heaven, Upper District, which is not an approved destination. A man from a private courier keeps leaving banknotes under his parcels. What you stamp comes back days later, and there are three endings.

What’s in it
• 10 days, about an hour to an hour and a half
• Mouse only, with a guided first day
• Three strikes a day before you’re sent home
• Three endings
• Browser and Windows

This is my second game here under the Red Thread label. I’d love to hear which rule broke you, and which ending you got!