Letters from the War

Letters from the War

Etrurian Games · January 24, 2025 · Adventure, Text-Based, Pixel Graphics, World War II, Choices Matter

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Positive83% · 48 📉 Recent reviews down 73%
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About Letters from the War

OVERVIEW

Letters from the War is a modern reimagining of text adventure games with a new gameplay based on postal censorship during Second World War. You will take the role of a newly hired employ of the Censorship Authority, where your actions will impact on the future of your nation.

GAMEPLAY

Censor letters coming from soldiers at the front trying to understand what you need to do not to be fired. Censoring critical information you will get commendations from your boss, but the citizens who youl receive the letters will not understand their content. Leaving the information readable you will risk to be fired in order to let the people know what is really happening. What will you do? Will you find the correct balance?

STORY

The game takes place in Vitulia, a fictional country involved in Second World War. An authoritarian regime rules in Vitualia, which controls the masses thanks to its supervision on public information. Will you change that?

ART

Experience a well-finished pixel art and an original soundtrack that will immerse you in the atmosphere of those years. Newspaper, letters and country spots were created, along with the music pieces, taking inspiration from first half of last century sources, but redesigned to enhance player experience.

Letters from the War — game info

Platforms
Windows
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Recommended Jul 26, 2025
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8 found this helpful
Recommended Jan 4, 2026
It's a decent game to get a sense of what you would do if you had to censor wartime letters from soldiers. Without the guide someone made for it it would be rather difficult to get all the achievements in a reasonable timeframe.
2 found this helpful
Not recommended Dec 21, 2025
[quote][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_slop][b]Warning: AI Slop[/b][/url] This game is partially or completely made with talentless, soulless AI generated content.[/quote] "Letters from the War" is a weak pixelcrap ripoff of "Papers, Please!" made with disgusting, insulting AI slop... so just like the developer couldn't come up with their own idea for a game, they couldn't even work out how to make pixelcrap properly so they used a diffusion model. AI slop is a disgusting insult to gamers everywhere. What do you do in the game? This ripoff of "Papers, Please!" has you censoring letters instead of approving incoming travelers, and comes across as much worse than "Papers, Please!", not least because of all the garbage AI slop. So, it's hard to describe this as a game, the focus of the product is more like that of an e-book/visual novel, there's only minor, shallow and uninteresting gameplay elements. The crux of this is to push some very low quality, badly done fan-fiction tier writing, where we see once more a developer fail to understand the importance of "Show, don't tell", and for whatever reason, weren't able to convey their narrative through gameplay, giving us endl…
2 found this helpful
Recommended Jun 27, 2026
Pretty simple game, definitely takes inspiration from papers please. It may just be an artistic choice but the fact the employer's face is borderline censored feels like its supposed to mean something. Fun 15 minute game to get at least two endings. Though it abruptly ends once you achieve them, making you start all over again with no way to skip the intro.
1 found this helpful
Not recommended Mar 2, 2025
You can left-click and you can right-click to (un)censor things, thats it. It is free so its not like you loose anything.
1 found this helpful
Not recommended Feb 7, 2026
not very much to it

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