Department of Safe Communication

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.68

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.32

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.22

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.26

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.82

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.76

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.78

Your application was processed.

Report to the Department of Safe Communication, Mirensk District. Housing will be arranged. Your child's medication costs money. This job pays money.

All correspondence entering and leaving Mirensk passes through your desk. Read. Decide. Stamp.

Some letters are innocent. Most are not your concern.

Glory to the State.

You are a low-level government censor during an authoritarian regime. Every day, a stack of intercepted letters, telegrams, and messages lands on your desk. Your job is simple: Approve, Redact, Reject, or Report each one. Quotas must be met. Deviations are noticed.

Made solo for LD-59 Game jam

Assets used:
Pixabay free sfx
wikiloops_jam_327793
Special_Elite font
In game text was redacted using Claude AI

Tags: #detective, #ludum-dare-59, #working simulator

Genres: puzzle, simulation, visual novel

Tools: Claude

Comments29

msipp2720 Apr 2026, 19:02

fun game.

SHAKIROVICHauthor20 Apr 2026, 23:55

@msipp27 Hey, thank you for playing, can you send me your pc configuration and windows version, so that I could figure out whats wrong, because it works well on all my devices.

msipp2721 Apr 2026, 01:03

well i'm on windows 10 but i don't really know how to check my pc config

VLAD_LEN21 Apr 2026, 15:59

Control department vibe

JustinMullin21 Apr 2026, 16:00

Very cool. The meat of the game is very polished, and the animations, sounds, and art are all really nice. I loved the theme, and enjoyed the puzzle of trying to memorize what's allowed and what's not. I ended wondering if I should reject everything, which...perhaps that's the point?

I did run across one bug where a day started and the first 4-5 pages were just blank. Didn't ruin anything, I just rejected and moved on. I haven't yet been able to successfully make it past the first day after the trial period, but it makes sense in theme to have the difficulty be quite hard if you're actually trying to let "proper" letters through.

Great entry!

SHAKIROVICHauthor22 Apr 2026, 02:49

@justinmullin Hey, thank you for feedback. Thats very weird bug, I havent encountered it yet, Ill try to figure it out. What do you mean by "I haven’t yet been able to successfully make it past the first day after the trial period" did you complete all five days and got bad ending? or something else happened?

SHAKIROVICHauthor22 Apr 2026, 02:50

@vlad-len What is that?

JustinMullin22 Apr 2026, 03:00

@shakirovich Oh, I didn't realize the game always ended on the fifth day. Yes, I played a few times and must have gotten the bad ending each time, and just assumed it was because I was doing poorly enough my run just immediately ended. That's good to know that it's not that. =)

SHAKIROVICHauthor22 Apr 2026, 03:03

@justinmullin Yeah there is only five days, I didnt want to make too long game for the jam, and there is multiple endings, Im currently collecting feedback to see if its too hard to get a good one ), did you get the same ending each time?

IDos22 Apr 2026, 12:18

Bro, I really like your style. This game is not like your previous ones. I can feel the style. Found you on XK Discord

JustinMullin22 Apr 2026, 13:14

@shakirovich, yes unfortunately I did get the "you were fired" screen each time. I was playing a bit too quickly, probably. One thing that probably hurt my score is I would sometimes "redact" when I meant to "burn," and I don't think there's a way to highlight over a word the other way. There were also some situations where it was slightly ambiguous what I was meant to do; for example, on the first day there are flagged names, but no indication of what to do with them. Later the instructions are to report if there are multiple flagged names. Are letters with only one flagged name meant to just have the name redacted? Little things like that I'm sure stacked up a bit against me if they are treated as mistakes.

LDJam user 38836422 Apr 2026, 16:18

as a die-hard "papers please" fan the game looks awesome, unfortunately i am on linux (arch btw) and there is no linux build :/

Nabil Shelim22 Apr 2026, 17:47

Really enjoyed this one, especially since I went on a similar direction with my own entry. It was interesting to see how we both approached the same idea in different ways. As others have mentioned, it gave me strong Papers, Please vibes, and I really liked your take on it. Overall, a great interpretation of the idea and a solid entry

LDJam user 42453522 Apr 2026, 18:54

it's very enjoyable to play, and the visual style is quite well-chosen!

SHAKIROVICHauthor22 Apr 2026, 23:32

@letssnack Let me see what I can do regarding the linux build

SHAKIROVICHauthor22 Apr 2026, 23:33

@nabil-shelim Ill definitely check it out

LDJam user 42383823 Apr 2026, 10:40

Papers Please vibes but with letters - art and sounds are clean, rules get a bit confusing but that's the fun of it

GARYglhf23 Apr 2026, 13:52

Я будто вернулся на старую работу )))

SHAKIROVICHauthor23 Apr 2026, 13:54

@garyglhf боюсь спросить что это была за работа )

VenomousMouse24 Apr 2026, 17:31

Very nice idea and the graphics look very cool. I can almost feel paper under my fingertips.

Aashen24 Apr 2026, 19:53

Highly addictive game, i lost so quick though xd, the atmosphere is done great, very authentic experience

hirqshi24 Apr 2026, 20:00

DAMN. I really felt the mood. The atmospehre is spot on, the graphics are simple yet I can not ask for more. The game kept me immersed for multiple playthroughs and yet im still not abt to beat it. Best game i played on this jam so far. I would really love to play a postjam version because it is such a fun concept. Great theme interpretation is a huge W too. Шикарно короче, держишь планку

LDJam user 37223124 Apr 2026, 21:58

The game looks very intriguing and quietly unsettling. Please tag me when there is a web build available, I am not on Windows and would love to try it!

SHAKIROVICHauthor25 Apr 2026, 05:32

@nadia-pixel Hi, thx for nice words, no web build in the foreseeable future unfortunately, its ue5 and it doesnt have web builds 😅

SHAKIROVICHauthor25 Apr 2026, 05:39

@hirqshi Damn bro thanks. Yeah, I actually think the difficulty is a bit on the tough side. I only managed to get a decent ending once myself. Although, maybe that’s the whole point. 😅 Спасибо

Custodi25 Apr 2026, 16:21

Cool game, like the concept of letter censeror.
But letters or conditions need to be more atomised, cuz sometimes it's no clear to understand, these word meets the conditions or not. If you check main reference (Papers, Please) - you see that everything divided by categories (country/passport/person description/date and so on).

SHAKIROVICHauthor26 Apr 2026, 00:11

@custodi Thank you for feedback, true I realized how big of a problem it is now, Ill work on that for post jam version.

SHAKIROVICHauthor26 Apr 2026, 03:11

@letssnack , @nadia-pixel , Linux version is available now. I havent tested it yet, so I would appreciate feedback .

LDJam user 27814626 Apr 2026, 07:34

This game definitely has promise! Looks great and very well written.

Since I can't avoid the comparison to Paper's Please, I think one of the things I liked more about that game was that it was more precisely defined what the rules were. I wasn't really sure while playing this whether I was doing the right thing or not - it was somewhat clear what I should be reporting but less clear what I need to highlight/redact/reject.

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