3 playsDepartment of Lost Things
You are a junior clerk in retrieval. Every object in the ledger belonged to somebody.
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10 playsAbout this game
The Department of Lost Things casts you as a junior clerk in retrieval, working a sub-level of an archive that stores things people have lost. You sign in by name, you are given a clearance, and you are handed a trolley. The work is cataloguing - matching objects to cases, filing them in the ledger, moving through the casebook. What makes it worth doing is that the objects are written with real care. A key that is cold and stays cold and has no opinion about you. A ring cut through in one place with a jeweller's saw. A trumpet, dented, six holes now purely decorative, that plays one note and it is a good note. A coat that smells of rain, tobacco and a hospital corridor. None of it is explained. The catalogue entries are short and the implications are left entirely to you, which is the whole effect: you are filing somebody's worst day and the paperwork does not acknowledge it. It is quiet, slow and text-led, and closer to a short story you move through than a game you play. Progress is kept between visits.
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How to play
Click or tap to move through the casebook and the ledger. Open an object to read its entry, then file it against the right case. Use the trolley to carry what you have retrieved. There is no timer and no failure - read at whatever pace suits you. Progress saves automatically.