Developer Dante Knoxx's village-life-meets-post-office sim Willowbrooke Post is launching into Steam early access next week, March 27th, and there's a new trailer to celebrate.

In Willowbrooke Post, you're summoned back to your childhood village home in order to manage your parents' post office following their slightly sinister-sounding "unexpected departure". Publisher Excalibur Games previously pitched Willowbrooke Post as "Animal Crossing meets Papers, Please", and the game's Steam page elaborates further, explaining that you'll be required to "manage finances, serve the community and protect the family reputation, until [your parents'] return."

Your new vocation gives you the run of both the post office itself and the family home, with your work responsibilities including package sorting, parcel wrapping, letter stamping, email writing, and managing your ledger. That appears to equate to a variety of different mini-games (you can certainly sense the debt to Papers, Please during parts of the trailer above), and you'll also need to interact with the locals, fulfilling any post-related requests they might have in order to keep your operation's reputation high.

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