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Post Memory

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Deliver the post in a cosy town, and decide how much to find out.

Platforms: Browser, PC
Stores: itch.io
Price: Free
Rated: Rated 4.8 of 5 by 237 players on itch.io
Length: 30 minutes to an hour
Players: 1
Controls: Arrow keys to move, Z or Space to act, X for the menu, Shift to dash, Page Down to fast-forward text
Made by: Spica
Released: 2024

What frightens The maker sets it up as a postman in a remote town who can slowly uncover the secrets under its surface, or not, and warns of cartoon blood and violence and heavy themes of religion and death. The friendly pixel-art town with cheerful music turns: a neighbour with a bloodied face carries a rifle and talks about shooting anything weird-looking, and what is buried in the flower beds is part of what
Content: cartoon blood, violence, guns, themes of religion and death.

Post Memory is a short, free RPG Maker horror mystery. You are a new postman in a remote town, delivering letters to neighbours with secrets, and the more you look the stranger the town becomes. It has four endings.

About Post Memory

Post Memory is a short horror mystery by Spica, made in RPG Maker MZ for the Spooktober Visual Novel Jam in 2024 and later patched with a browser version. You are a postman newly arrived in a remote town. You can slowly uncover the secrets that lie under its surface, or leave them alone; the maker puts the choice in your hands.

The town is drawn in clean top-down pixel art with large character portraits in the dialogue. Each day you deliver letters, talk to the residents, give them gifts to raise their hearts, and open locked doors with a lockpick and a twenty-sided dice roll. A brusque coworker, a florist, a priest and a hunter with a rifle are among the people you get to know.

The fear grows out of that cosy start. Cheerful music and bright colours sit beside a neighbour with blood on her face, rules nobody explains, and things in the town that are not right. The maker warns of cartoon blood and violence and heavy themes of religion and death. It is unsettling rather than full of jumpscares.

A run takes 30 minutes to an hour, and there are four endings, so most players go back for the others. The maker says another route may follow in a later update.

How to play Post Memory

Open the itch.io page and press Run game, or download the Windows version (the maker suggests it if the browser version gives trouble).
Move with the arrow keys and press Z or Space to talk, read and pick things up.
Deliver the day's letters and talk to the townspeople; gifts raise their hearts.
When a dice check appears, roll it to try to open doors or get past a moment.
Save before big choices, then replay to reach the other three endings.

Screenshots

Post Memory screenshot: Cain in a navy jacket outside the pixel-art post office, saying stay away from me

Post Memory screenshot: Eury with blood on her face holding a rifle, asking if they were not told to shoot anything weird-looking

Post Memory screenshot: a d20 dice check with difficulty class 25 over a pixel-art room

Post Memory screenshot: Monday the priest in the church asking if you have been adapting to your work

Post Memory screenshot: Michel the florist outside her shop with Talk, Gift and Nothing choices

Tips

Save often: players report that some browser saves fail, and a failed roll can send you back a long way.
If an image error appears in the browser version, try the Windows download or a private browsing window.
Talk to everyone each day; the residents' rooms and remarks hold most of the story.
Look in places you are told to ignore; that is where the town's secrets are.