Parcel Inspector Simulator — PC

Parcel Inspector Simulator is a first-person inspection sim set on the night shift of a transit post office in 1962. Every parcel that crosses the desk is weighed, X-rayed, checked under a UV lamp, listened to with a probe and looked up in the terminal, then stamped: approve, return to sender, hold, dispose or confiscate. Regulations change from night to night, wages pay for desk upgrades and for a brother's sanatorium bills, and a 20-night story campaign with seven endings follows a favour that somebody upstairs keeps asking for. After the campaign the shifts go on as endless nights with special conditions.

1962. J. Marlow works the night shift at inspection desk 4-11 of the National Transit Post. His brother Thomas is in the Pine Hill Sanatorium, and the bills come out of the inspector's wages. Then a man named Ketter starts calling with small favours: let one parcel through, hold another. Over twenty nights the inspector decides what to stamp, what to report and whom to trust, and the case board on the office wall slowly shows who is moving what through the depot. The story ends in one of seven ways.