Surreal narrative adventure Burden Street Station is still a ways away from full release, but players can now get a taste of the kind of experience developer Iodine is cooking. The developer has just launched a demo on Steam that’ll take players through the game’s opening hours and grant them the run of one of its three major maps.
Those who partake in Burden Street Station’s demo will also get to scour through two early-game storylines and gather their first clues as to what exactly the "Grand Archive" is. A large part of this involves talking to the locals and switching out personal traits, so players should be able to get a feel for the overall flow by the time they reach the demo’s conclusion.
Change yourself to effect change in those around you.
Burden Street Station drops players into a world where all the little moments that comprise a person’s life are extracted and turned into living books for “higher beings” to read and enjoy. At some point, one of those higher beings goes missing, and the ones tasked to get to the bottom of its disappearance are a librarian and a living book that somehow exists without...
