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Music worked so well, the letters were hectic enough, was a simple concept well polished.... but I never got any stars \ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":941646,"author_name":"Sam Gorman","author_uid":"sam-gorman","epoch":1682997058,"text":"Nice and clean, I like it! Reminds me of Papers Please. I really loved all the letters flooding in at the end, for a moment I thought I had to get all of them :O\n\nThe scoring seems really tough though, I felt like I was getting through a lot of letters but I still got one star. Maybe I'm just bad though!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":942918,"author_name":"bokchoyboy","author_uid":"bokchoyboy","epoch":1683008921,"text":"Fun game! Got 2 stars with a score of 55 on my second try. I like the Return to Sender mechanic. Like a another commenter mentioned, it reminds me of Papers Please in a fun way.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":953269,"author_name":"Ani","author_uid":"ani","epoch":1683074358,"text":"I like how fast this plays! It does get a bit overwhelming so I started to stamp letters in batches then sort them afterwards, which made it a bit easier. It's fun!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":953574,"author_name":"Cody Raethke","author_uid":"cody-raethke","epoch":1683077263,"text":"Really well-polished game. I liked how original the gameplay was. Took me a while to get the hang of it, but was pretty fun despite being fairly simple. My favorite part was the giant flood of letters at the end :P ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":957694,"author_name":"ValDevelopment","author_uid":"valdevelopment","epoch":1683130506,"text":"Absolute banger of an entry! Plays VERY well, is very fun, has a high skill ceiling, has amazing mood and is certainly extremely polished. AMAZING job!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":961887,"author_name":"jk5000","author_uid":"jk5000","epoch":1683182185,"text":"A bit fast, but else a fun little game. I liked it. Well done. ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":966370,"author_name":"Geekarious Tony","author_uid":"geekarious-tony","epoch":1683259004,"text":"I really liked the game, any thoughts on how to accomodate for color blind settings? more of a thought. Great work! ","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":966382,"author_name":"jward","author_uid":"jward","epoch":1683259261,"text":"Ha, that was fun and a bit crazy! 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It was extremely frantic, the first round expertly lures you into a false sense of security. I could take or leave the stamping aspect, but it certainly compounds the crazy energy.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":969354,"author_name":"Chucks Feed and Seed","author_uid":"chucks-feed-and-seed","epoch":1683332589,"text":"Simple but polished. This could be a full mobile game already. My one recommendation is to make the success and failure sounds more distinct - especially with the music playing, it can be hard to discern them.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":969416,"author_name":"Winter2277","author_uid":"winter2277","epoch":1683334483,"text":"Nice polished little game, good job!","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":979013,"author_name":"Adrien Tremblay","author_uid":"adrien-tremblay","epoch":1684005362,"text":"As others have said this was a very well polished game so good job! Seems to me to be a stripped-down take on 'Papers Please' gameplay. 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