The Office of Unclaimed Things
A lost and found for the afterlife. Objects the dead left behind arrive at your desk. You study each one, piece together the life it came from, and decide where it goes next.
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A narrative game
Bureau of the Hollow · Now hiring for the night shift
The dead leave things behind. Someone has to file them.
A narrative game you play in the browser, a few minutes at a time. You work the night shift at an afterlife office inside a shared dream: you read what the dead left behind, talk with them, and decide what happens next. The story moves on whether you are there or not.
Free to play. Runs in the browser. English, Português, Español.
What a night is like
A quiet office at three in the morning, and a sea where the floor should be
You clock in. A capsule drops from the pneumatic tube. Something has arrived: an object, a dreamer's file, a ship on the horizon. You read it, you talk to whoever it belongs to, and you decide what happens next. Then you wait, because the Hollow keeps its own time, and things take as long as they take.
- Every few hours
- the world changes. Tides, weather in the dream, new arrivals.
- Every morning
- the Gazette prints what happened, including what you did.
- In real time
- expeditions, crossings and inquiries run while you are away.
- Shared
- what you chart, pass or dispatch reaches other keepers' desks.
Three departments · Choose one as your post
Where will you work?
The Department of Dream Cartography
You map the recurring dreams of sleepers. What you chart becomes permanent terrain in the shared dreamscape, and the first keeper to chart a place is credited forever.
Opens later. You can choose it now; your first objects will still find you.
The Keeper's Watch
You keep a lighthouse on a shared sea. Ships arrive from different centuries. You talk with their captains and decide who passes.
Opens later. You can choose it now; your first objects will still find you.
The lamp is already on. The desk is waiting.
Fill out an employment form, choose a department, and clock in. Your first object arrives within the minute.
Begin your shift