Burden Street Station

Burden Street Station is a narrative adventure set in a universe where moments from mortals’ lives are extracted and turned into sentient books for higher beings to consume. A lowly librarian and Memo, a book with no moment of her own, are coerced into investigating a missing God. As you try to make sense of someone else’s pain, you must decide which version of yourself to bring to the task.

Change yourself

Traits act as emotional prosthetics. Each one changes how the world responds to you and what it believes you deserve, and can affect how you influence others.

Dig into dialogue

Your words shape conversations and can uncover what others feel and remember. Speaking kindly can help them open up, while saying the wrong thing can cause something to break. Some characters flinch; others recall what it was like to feel whole, and their experiences can affect you too.

Explore fading memories

Lotown, Pipelines and Hitown are areas presented as dreams in slow decay, each shaped by the memory of someone whose artist is missing. Though every place is someone else’s memory, you may feel that you have been there before.

Help Memo find her story

Memo will just about tolerate you as long as you help her gain a story of her own. You act as a bridge between godhood and regret, shaping conversations while carrying something left behind that still wants to be understood.