The Letter - Horror Visual Novel

Buy85%

Very Positive · 2k player reviews · Medium confidence

Likely worth it. Reviews lean strongly positive.

Steam Deck Playable
  • Windows
  • macOS
  • Linux

Yangyang Mobile · Visual Novel · Jul 24, 2017

Player review score
85%
Very Positive
Price
$19.99
Playing right now
All-time peak
Not charted

Steam only charts its most-played games, and this one isn’t among them.

Achievements
172
total to unlock
Steam does not publish achievement rarity.
Languages
3
Full audio1 of 3
Subtitles3 of 3

Should I buy The Letter - Horror Visual Novel?

Buy it if you like
  • Story: 217 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Audio: 107 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Gameplay: 49 reviews raised it, mostly praise
Think twice if you dislike
  • Crashes: 7 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
  • Difficulty: 7 reviews raised it, mostly criticism

Based on 2k player reviews · updated

What players think

The recurring themes across 300 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.

Why players love itThings to know
50% of themes are praise30% are divided20% are complaints
Story
Players who bring up Story mostly praise it.
217 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
The story itself is well written, the voice acting solid and with a cast of seven protagonists to play there’s variety in each chapter that you will experience some extreme swings in how much you enjoy it.
Audio
Players who bring up Audio mostly praise it.
107 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Graphics; the graphics are fairly nice and I do appreciate how it goes with the voice-acting (which is, imo, the standout in terms of quality...maybe a bit overacted sometimes though).
Gameplay
Players who bring up Gameplay mostly praise it.
49 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
The game's replayability is pretty good, the skip function helps a lot- do use it if you are replaying- it will skip over dialogue you've already seen and stop at new dialogue.
Graphics
Players who bring up Graphics mostly praise it.
35 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Expect tension, few screamers with QTE (or not, you can disable QTE) and hella good visuals.
Characters
Players who bring up Characters mostly praise it.
33 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
I like how you get to play as each character as well, there are so many ways to experiment with what you say, making the game all that more fun and diverse.

Theme by theme

Scored on what reviews say about each topic, not the thumbs.

Players love
Story217 reviews
Audio107 reviews
Gameplay49 reviews
Graphics35 reviews
Characters33 reviews
Divided opinion
Interface
100% still recommend
Co-op
50% still recommend
Bugs
100% still recommend
Players complain
Crashes
86% still recommend
Difficulty
100% still recommend

What you get

Can you play it alone, does a controller work, does it run on your machine.

Play modes

  • Single-player

Controller

Steam lists no controller support.

Store features

  • Captions available
  • Family Sharing
  • Steam Achievements
  • Steam Cloud
  • Steam Trading Cards

Platforms

  • Windows
  • macOS
  • Linux

Valve device support

Steam DeckPlayable
SteamOSPlayable
Steam MachinePlayable

Should I buy it now?

Based on Steam price history.

Prices have been lower
$19.99

The lowest we've tracked is $4.99.

8 points recordedtoday · $19.99

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