DEAD LETTER DEPT.

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• Patch Notes·17 Feb 2026Official

  Patch Minor Update 1.6.4

  Just another quick minor patch. Thank you for your keen eye and attention Data Conversion Operator ✉New in v1.6.4Bugfix for a specific detail that wouldn't get cleared out of memory properly, if one were to end a playthrough and started a new one immediately.
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• Announcements·30 Jan 2026Official

  DEAD LETTER DEPT. RELEASE - 1 YEAR ANNIVERSARY

  It has been 1 year.I've decided to commemorate with a small bit of making-of reminiscing. As a project with the central theme revolving around a distinctly physical medium, it seemed pretty un-deniable that it would involve a lot of paper textures. In 2021, as a person whose entire career has more or less existed inside whirring boxes and glowing screens, I found myself a little bit artistically exhausted with the digital- craving any sort of excuse to bring in more physically sourced elements.So, as DEAD LETTER DEPT. development went on, I found myself increasingly now collecting envelopes in the mail that caught my eye, as well as collecting odd pieces of paper found on the ground. I wanted a varied range to source from. Anything now with a stain on it was suddenly incredibly valuable. The rare occasion that some mail got returned to me, was a precious gift. I wish now I had kept the mail that I burned (rather, what remained of it).Creating the mail was always a big mixture of physical + digital work. Mangling physical paper with writing on it, and then scanning it in was significantly faster and easier to get the right vibe (rather than trying to do it from scratch with digital), and it always seemed to give a better a natural look. It was also consistently a lot of fun to figure out many weird ways to beat up an envelope.Audio-wise, for a long while now I've made it a habit to always travel around with a portable audio recorder in my jacket whenever possible. Especially whenever I might end up say, in a random warehouse somewhere, with no one around, and a free moment to capture what something snapping or banging in it sounds like. It's a room tone to me that feels fixed somewhere between a church, a cave, and a tomb.After doing this for a long while I ended up with a collection of weird & unique sounds I loved, that also came from some key fond memories, but ultimately I never quite knew what to do with them. Until DEAD LETTER DEPT. finally gave me some opportu...
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• Patch Notes·16 Oct 2025Official

  Patch Minor Update 1.6.3

  Welcome Data Conversion Operators, both junior and senior. Thank you for your hard work. This is just a quick minor patch.New in v1.6.2Quick fix for when Mouse Smoothing is set completely to OFF (previously the Yaxis apparently still received a smidge amount of dampening that would apparently cause light nausea to those sensitive to it)Update to fix Unity security bug for good measure. This was fairly low risk already thanks to the mitigation efforts of Steam, but it's still good to have killed it for good.
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• Announcements·10 Oct 2025Official

  VINYL SOUNDTRACK NOW AVAILABLE ░̵̰̩̈́͒͗́͜▐

  THE VINYL IS COMPLETED ░░̵̰̩̈́͒͗́͜▐▒̴̰̕▀̸̺̼͉̯͕̉̊̃̕░░ AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE NOW AT VERY OK VINYL ░░I'm happy to announce the Vinyl Edition of the DEAD LETTER DEPT. OST has been produced and is now available for purchase thanks to the efforts of Very Ok Vinyl.Float and melt into paranormal drones & sizzling industrial rhythmic sound, stalking the full journey of your Data Conversion experience.I've worked with Very Ok Vinyl to make sure every order also gets a Bandcamp code to obtain a free digital copy of the OST to download as well. (It's something new VoV is trying out, so if you don't end up receiving the code somehow, don't hesitate to reach out to me or VoV)SHIRTS AND HOODIES STILL AVAILABLE ░̵̰̩̈́͒͗́͜▒̴̰̕If you'd like a DLD shirt and/or hoodie, there's now a distant machine somewhere on the Earth that will whirr wheeze & dispense it at you. ░░ CURRENTLY AVAILABLE AT PRINTFUL.COM ░░Thanks for reading. May you have a brilliant October and happy hauntings ▀̸̺̼͉̯͕̉̊̃̕-Mike
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• Announcements·23 Sept 2025Official

  Slime your body with DEAD LETTER DEPT.

  Trap your skeleton with horrible comfortSorry, no plushies to be found here. But some folks have inquired about wearables, so I've opened up a tiny Printful store for t-shirts and hoodies. What better way to head into fall than by showing your friends you're into obscure typing psychological horror and possibly also reading their mail.Incidentally it's easy to expand it to other kinds of wearables, so if you're looking for something else in particular, feel free to let me know.GRAB THEM HEREDEAD LETTER DEPT. Soundtrack UpdateSignups for a Very Ok Vinyl vinyl version of the DEAD LETTER DEPT. soundtrack are still open. I don't have a good timeline on this unfortunately but it *is* moving along.Interested? Register HERE*all purchases of the vinyl edition come with a free Bandcamp code to download the digital version*Additionally the DLD OST is currently already available on these platforms (now including streaming):Steam(a great choice)Bandcamp (the best one)Spotify (the worst one)YouTube (the meh one)Apple Music & iTunes (the feh one) Right. Thanks for bearing with me here. I'm not used to tap dancing about architecture.-Mike
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