Publisher CRITICAL REFLEX and developer IODINE announced a release date for Burden Street Station, their surreal narrative adventure game.

Burden Street Station is set to launch later this month for Windows PC (via Steam) on May 21st. A playable demo has been available.

Here’s a rundown on the game, plus a new trailer:

In a universe where life’s moments are extracted from mortals and transformed into sentient books for consumption by higher beings, a lowly librarian and a book without a moment of its own are coerced into solving the mystery of a missing God.

BURDEN STREET STATION is a narrative adventure about dead-end platforms and unfinished stories. Which version of yourself will help make sense of someone else’s pain?

Features

• A Collection of Selves – Change yourself to change others. Traits are emotional prosthetics. Each one calibrates how the world responds to you and what it believes you deserve.
• Dialogue as Excavation – Words dig deeper than they should. Speak kindly, and they open up. Speak incorrectly and something breaks. Sometimes they flinch. Sometimes they remember what it felt like to be whole. And you wonder why you feel it too.
• Built from Memory, Not Logic – Lotown, Pipelines, Hitown – each area a dream in slow decay, its artist missing. Every place a memory dreamt by someone else. And yet… you’ve definitely been here before.
• A Book Without a Moment – Memo will just about tolerate you – so long as you help her finally gain her story.
• You’ve Said This Before – Creation is messy. Closure is divine. You are a bridge between godhood and regret, not just shaping conversations, but carrying something left behind. Something that still wants to be understood.