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The Sorting Bureau on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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A cozy sorting game set in a quiet Tokyo workshop. Clients bring you boxes of clutter: buttons, coins, gears, stamps. Sort them, group them, and put everything back in its place, to satisfying ASMR clicks. No timers. Mistakes cost nothing. Just the joy of tidying up.

The Sorting Bureau is a organizing, cleaning and cozy game developed and published by Apelsinka Games.
Released on August 21st 2026 is available on Windows, MacOS, Steam Deck and Steam Machine.

It has received 300 reviews of which 231 were positive and 69 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.2 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 9.95€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified The Sorting Bureau into these genres:

Organizing Cleaning Cozy Relaxing Casual Cute Wholesome Atmospheric Puzzle 2D Inventory Management Colorful Point & Click Singleplayer Simulation Indie Family Friendly Hand-drawn Life Sim Cats

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System requirements

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Windows
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS: Windows 10+
  • Processor: Intel Core i3 / AMD Athlon 3000G (dual-core, 2 GHz)
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 520 / NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 / AMD Radeon R5 (DirectX 11 compatible, 512 MB VRAM)
  • DirectX: Version 11
  • Storage: 1 GB available space
  • Sound Card: DirectX compatible
MacOS
  • OS: macOS Big Sur 11 or newer
  • Processor: Apple M1 or Intel Core i3
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Apple M1 / Intel HD Graphics 5000 (Metal compatible)
  • Storage: 1 GB available space

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8 hours played
Sept. 2026
"Repetitive = bad" they say. I have to agree, the game is repetitive but that doesn't make it bad. The repetitiveness is kinda the point here, no? You sort some, take a break, return to the real world duties and then come back to sort some more. You are not supposed to inhale the whole game in one go. Instead, digest it slowly. If you do that, I am sure you will get much more joy out of this game.
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Aug. 2026
I want to thank the game's creator for making this game for me personally. Do you like to sort things? Then wowee this game will make you super happy. I don't suffer from autism, I enjoy every minute of it.
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3 hours played
Aug. 2026
Empty your head, fill up all the little boxes with all those little things. The artwork is cute, very Japanese, and relaxing. It can get a bit repetitive, but it's really nice for giving your brain a rest.
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4 hours played
Aug. 2026
I work a stressful job and this game is my evening reset. I put on a podcast, sort things for an hour, and somehow my mind gets tidier too. It sounds silly but it works. I love the photo album, saving a nicely arranged order and looking at it later is such a joy. Small complaint, I'd love a bit of background music, it's mostly just soft sounds. Lovely as is, but a few gentle tracks would make it perfect.
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10 hours played
Aug. 2026
If you enjoy organizing games, you may love this game! In my opinion, it feels similar to these games: -Camper Van: Make It Home -Hozy -Organized Inside -Unpacking The overall concept is much simpler - you're sorting small things by various criteria and putting them into boxes or onto a piece of paper. Somehow I have sunk 8 hours into this game already, because it is so satisfying. The sound design stands out in this game. Pulling a piece out of a larger pile makes a satisfying little clink against the other items, and it is a little different depending on what sort of items are on the table. You will notice that as you are making piles, the sounds change as the pile gets bigger. I do wish there was a little more variety in the sounds of individual items, though - single pieces of anything tend to sound the same when setting them on the table or into a box one by one, and it can get repetitive. However, you also have plenty of ambient noise in the background; much of which, from my understanding, was recorded on location in Tokyo. You can hear voices, birds, the occasional car, thunderstorms, and wind. Pretty neat! I noticed the loop sometimes, but not enough to take me out of the game. The mechanics are wonderfully tactile. I've played on the Deck and on PC. On Deck, I preferred using the trackpad and triggers. You could also use the touchscreen on the Deck, but I have found it's harder to see what I'm doing as the cursor is very small. There's a 'throwing' mechanic by which you can toss items into boxes or across the desk. This is incredibly satisfying, especially when you take a sizeable pile and toss it into a box - the items scatter a bit in the box, which is fun. Some orders will engage your brain more than others, asking you to sort by color, size, color temperature, material, etc, rather than item type alone. Others are very simple. Certain orders allow you to arrange the items in a grid and take a photo - very little 'rules' are enforced on these orders aside from shape, so you are able to be somewhat creative with color placement. I find myself trying to make patterns or sort out what I think the customer would like, but there's no wrong answer. Sometimes orders will arrive with broken or torn items and you fit them together like little puzzles. I noticed that on the Steam Deck, the pieces are already oriented to line up if you just find the ones that go together. On PC, sometimes you have to rotate a piece to fit it with its partner, which was a fun little surprise for me since I had played on the Deck first and didn't realize I was missing out on any extra nuance. :) The art style is beautiful! I believe I saw something in the launch announcement that said "Maria is not an artist; she became one during development." Well, she did a great job for someone who identifies as "not an artist," I must say! Items have all been illustrated with care and are beautiful to look at. There is enough detail on the "damaged" and "rusty" items to be able to sort them easily, while still providing a small challenge while you occasionally pause to decide "is that rust or is that just part of the screw..." I have a few suggestions for small improvements that could be made, but these are largely just "would be nice if..." sorts of ideas. Here they are: - For the levels where the player is free to decide the sorting arrangement, it would be great to be able to choose how many boxes we can use. Example: I had a pasta order that I wanted to sort by shape, but there weren't enough boxes. - The hit box for the houseplant seems a little big - I'm trying to poke at the cat and end up poking the plant even though visually I'm nowhere near it. - Ambient lighting for the desk affected by time of day or the lamp. The office looks so cozy in the evenings and nighttime with the lamp on and your little cup of tea, but then you start an order and it's the same brightly lit surface as always. Not immersion-breaking or anything, in my opinion, but would be lovely if the lamp or the sunlight outside had an effect on the work surface. (Though perhaps this would be something you could turn on or off in settings, in case some folks prefer the brightly lit surface.) - A little more variety in the shapes of certain items could perhaps be nice? I understand this would be a lot of additional work, though. I just thought that certain items, like rocks and sea glass, could have more variations. Currently, all the "small" sea glasses are the exact same shape, as an example. It doesn't appear that players are ever asked to organize sea glass or pebbles by shape (only color, size, item type), so a few more variations could exist without muddling up orders. Just a thought. - I posted a thread about this in the discussion forum, but I noticed some orders appear on the desk with items pre-sorted. Unsure if intentional or not. I usually just pause and click "spread out on desk" to mix them up a little, though it's a mediocre workaround. Not the end of the world, just not as satisfying to play these levels. - Many levels are inherently not colorblind friendly. I'm not colorblind, but I can see how this could be a pain point or even a progression block for those who are. A colorblind setting, or a setting to simply turn these types of orders off, could be helpful. Trial and error is a workaround (put things in boxes at random until they stick), but some of these orders have 100 items or more and that would probably be tedious. **This is the only real QOL suggestion I have that feels like it could actually be important.** - In the future, I'd like to see a larger variety of items. After 8 hours of playtime, I've seen all there is to see. Of course, I'll continue playing because there's such a large range of order types that I'm still enjoying the game - but I am starting to wonder why Aiko has SO. MANY. ERASERS. Overall, great work on a cozy little game that allows the player to quiet the parts of their brain that are stressed! The launch announcement mentioned plans for additional content in the future, so I'm excited to see how the game evolves over time. :) Thank you for reading!
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Frequently Asked Questions

The Sorting Bureau is currently priced at 9.95€ on Steam.

No, The Sorting Bureau is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 9.95€ on Steam.

Yes, The Sorting Bureau received 231 positive votes out of a total of 300 achieving a rating of 7.22.
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The Sorting Bureau was developed and published by Apelsinka Games.

Yes, The Sorting Bureau is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Yes, The Sorting Bureau is playable and fully supported on MacOS.

No, The Sorting Bureau is not playable on Linux.

Yes, The Sorting Bureau is playable and fully supported on Steam Deck.

Yes, The Sorting Bureau is playable and fully supported on Steam Machine.

No, The Sorting Bureau does not support VR.

The Sorting Bureau is a single-player game.

No, The Sorting Bureau does not currently offer any DLC.

No, The Sorting Bureau does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

No, The Sorting Bureau does not support Steam Remote Play.

Yes, The Sorting Bureau is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

You can find solutions or submit a support ticket by visiting the Steam Support page for The Sorting Bureau.

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The Sorting Bureau
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Release 21 Aug 2026
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