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A surreal, narrative adventure game where you shapeshift during conversations to uncover how God went missing.

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Demo arrives at Burden Street Station!

2 Dec, 2025

Hi!

Burden Street Station is a cosmic archival psycho-drama dressed as a train sim,where you wear personalities like prosthetics to advance dialogue. And now it offers a sneak peek behind the space-veil of its world and story. In simpler terms: THE DEMO IS HERE!

In this world, memories and precious moments are harvested and turned into pulp fiction for the extradimensional Celestials. It’s not as bad as it sounds, and for some (you) it’s even a job. Yet the God overseeing and molding the world of Burden Street Station has disappeared.

Without any change or progress, nobody has any chance at going through a character arc. This put both the lives of the inhabitants and book production into a torpor. You – a lowly librarian, – and your entirely unenthusiastic book-companion are tasked with getting to the bottom of all this (and maybe ushering back in a little positive chaos).

Demo Features

Experience the opening chapters of Burden Street Station — two inter-woven storylines, and a shallow dip into the cosmic opera of what happened to this world;
Explore LoTown, the surreal district — discover one of the game’s three major districts. Expect impossible architecture, dubious rules and liminal atmosphere;
Meet the locals — interact with the LoTown’s cast of misfits and learn their quirks. Test your personality-switching power and make new friends (and foes!);
Experience the game’s original soundtrack — Immerse yourself in the uncanny and dreamy atmospheric score composed specifically for this world.

Don’t forget to share your experience with Burden Street Station once you try it out, any way you see fit. (There IS a fancy survey though if you are so inclined. Your feedback helps me a ton!)

SURVEY[docs.google.com]

Oh, and we can’t forget about my Discord[discord.gg]. Not only are you welcome to discuss Burden Street Station there, but my other game – Pillory, – also gets its own damp, murky corner on the server. Perfect place to talk about both projects or just have a good time in the chat.

Until next time,
IODINE & CRITICAL REFLEX

Burden Street Station

[BUG REPORTS] Burden Street Station DEMO

Greetings! Welcome to our bug report thread! Each and every report you send will help us improve the game. If you happen to find a bug, please use the plan below to write your report: 1. Describe the issue you encountered 2. Describe what you did before encountering this issue 3. Provide screenshots or footage if needed To attach footage and screenshots you can upload them to any cloud storage (Google Drive, Dropbox, Imgur for images, etc) and send the link here. Thank you in advance! ...

langri

9 Dec, 2025 @ 4:54am

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Burden Street Station Teams Up With CRITICAL REFLEX!

14 Aug, 2025

HI.

I'm IODINE, the developer of Burden Street Station, and I have something extremely exciting to announce:

Burden Street Station is joining the CRITICAL REFLEX family!!

It says so right here on the wall:

BSS is the narrative adventure game I've been working on, featuring a surreal, ‘90s PC aesthetic (think Myst, ENA...).

In this world, mortals have their best and worst life moments harvested and made into sentient books. These books are then sold to higher celestial beings (Gods) for entertainment and nourishment.

One day, one of the worlds suddenly halts all book production, and its God disappears without a trace.

An unassuming worker drone (that's you!) and their assistant (a snarky book missing her own moment) are tasked with getting to the bottom of what happened, and uncover the mystery of this God's disappearance.

So, what will YOU be doing in this game?

Explore a multitude of bizarre places and chat with their odd inhabitants.
Experience a surreal story that touches on themes like memory, grief, existentialism, and community.
Transform your head, body, or legs to unlock new dialogue choices to open people up with!
Enjoy the game’s unique artstyle, reminiscent of late-90s/early-00s PC edutainment titles.
Dive into the game’s strange atmosphere: somewhere between quirky, eerie, somber, and liminal.

I hope it makes you feel as weird playing it as I felt making it!

Why join CRITICAL REFLEX?

Burden Street is more or less a solo project. Alone, I just didn't have the resources to properly communicate the message it wants to convey.

I feel like CR is the perfect kind of publisher to help out with the kind of games I make – I think they really understand what I'm trying to do.

As part of the partnership for example, I got to work with COLORFICTION, who was very patient and taught me how to really get the most out of the artstyle I was going for. It wouldn't look nearly as cool without him!

This partnership also lets me do some things that are difficult to manage as a solodev, such as localizing the game into many, many languages.

In short, everybody wins!! But I win more because I get to make this thing even cooler than I originally planned.

The game is coming out pretty soon, so until then stay tuned and keep an eye out on updates and devlogs I will be posting on this Steam page from now on!

By the way, I’ve also got my own Discord[discord.gg] server, so if you’re feeling lonely and want to talk games or just post silly stuff, join in! My other project, Pillory, also gets its own damp, murky corner on the server, so you can talk about both of my games and just have a good time (optional).

See you all pretty soon!!

https://youtu.be/LuyJ8ycwxek

Burden Street Station

DEMO does not start

Opens to a white screen for a couple seconds, then crashes.

cbtx

9 Dec, 2025 @ 5:27am

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Discord of Burden Street Station

Is there a Burden Street Station discord? If so, can you send me the link please? (I love this game)

Trivu

1 Jan @ 8:35am

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Fascinating! However....

I mostly enjoyed my time with the Burden Street Station demo! However, I ran up against a brick wall and couldn't seem to figure out how to get around it - I don't know how to change my "head" personality back to "Forward" from "Anxious", or to otherwise access "Forward" past that point, which is required to progress a few conversations. I mostly stumbled along and figured out how things worked and what I was meant to do, but unfortunately this particular point has me scratching my he...

Sage

22 Dec, 2025 @ 3:26am

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I can’t wait for this game!

Oh I can’t wait for this game, I really love the art style it’s very unique. I really enjoyed the first story!

Ay0Niv

20 Jan @ 5:25pm

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