SURPRISE! TWO SOLO DEVELOPER GAMES JOIN ACCLAIMED INDIE PUBLISHER CRITICAL REFLEX’S EXTENSIVE LINEUP

Burden Street Station and HEAVY AS STONE join CRITICAL REFLEX’s eclectic portfolio

NICOSIA, Cyprus – Aug. 14, 2025 – Ahead of gamescom, CRITICAL REFLEX (Mouthwashing, Buckshot Roulette) is excited to announce two innovative PC titles joining its publishing lineup from talented solo developers. The surreal narrative adventure game Burden Street Station from developer IODINE and horror mystery RPG HEAVY AS STONE from developer jøy offer two very unique gameplay and story experiences.

As a tiny spirit, you’ll shapeshift during conversations to uncover how God went missing in this non-linear narrative adventure game with an off-kilter world to discover. Inspired by the visual language of ‘90s adventure games, Burden Street Station is about conversations - collect personality traits through talking and exploration, and wear them to unlock dialogue options and advance multiple stories.

Investigate a series of deaths in a 1920s Prohibition-era city on behalf of the Atsmith Life Insurance Co., uncovering the relationship between these cases and the cause of your mysterious illness. Examine case files, visit crime scenes, and build narratives to determine insurance payouts, with each choice shaping the unfolding story. Adapt to your disease and survive Terminal's seedy underbelly of bootleggers, cultists and fellow afflicted as you face the consequences of your search for answers in this investigative horror RPG.

Burden Street Station and HEAVY AS STONE are available to wishlist on Steam now, alongside CRITICAL REFLEX’s other recently announced titles including Eclipsium and CARIMARA: Beneath the Forlorn Limbs. More info on these - and the rest of CRITICAL REFLEX's diverse lineup of titles - to come…sooner than you may think...

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CRITICAL REFLEX is an indie game publisher obsessed with genre-blending, rule-breaking, brain-melting games. We help devs polish the weird, sharpen the wild, and launch their projects loud. Known for titles like Buckshot Roulette, Lunacid, Mouthwashing and No, I'm not a Human, we champion the unforgettable experiences. Genre is a prison and we ate the warden.

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