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On your last day at the world’s last pneumatic post office, you discover the tubes reach further than any map - across cities, across centuries.

Match the objects on your desk to the letters in your hand, Send them off and see what comes back. But read carefully: the last owner’s description is all you have, and they didn’t always know what they were holding either.

How it works

Read the letter, then work out what the objects on your desk actually are. Turn the dials to the right year, find the matching tube on the era map, and send. If the recipient is happy, they send back something from their own time. If not, your package comes back to you. There’s no money here. A player piano can buy you a toothbrush. Every object that gets accepted goes into your catalogue. There you’ll learn what it really was and every hand it passed through: who owned it, how they described it, and why someone finally took it.

• Controls: Mouse and keyboard
• Language: English / 简体中文
• Length: About 15 minutes

Content note: The game mentions death, historical medical practices and radiation, and briefly touches on mature themes.

Credits

• Design: draccoon, space_yoga, Spring
• Programming: draccoon
• Art: Spring
• Writing: space_yoga, draccoon
• Music: The Tourist
• Sound effects: https://www.ear0.com, selected and downloaded by The Tourist
• Fonts: Caveat, Inter, EB Garamond, Nunito, Noto Sans SC, Noto Serif SC, Ma Shan Zheng, and Yozai by lxgw, all under SIL OFL 1.1
• Reference images of historical objects were collected from the internet. Full sources are listed in the in-game credits.
• Made with Godot.

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No AI was used to create the game’s artwork or music, or to write the Chinese-language text, except for some in-game orders and letters. AI was used to assist with game programming, translating some text into English, and suggesting improvements to phrasing, as none of the team members are native English speakers.