BURNING OUT is an interactive story that starts out by connecting you to a newly-created and currently dying cloned soldier desperately in need of some life guidance.

Throughout the game, you’ll try (and repeatedly fail) to help them survive, talk about what it means to be a “real person,” trigger a few existential crises, and hopefully eventually get your new contact out alive… or at least help them figure out who they really are before they die.

You can play it here in your browser.

The opening/first act of the game is currently complete, with three main routes (and then some additional content) to come. There is also some beta content accessible after completing at least one ending, though much of it contains spoilers for the full game. I’m open to feedback and suggestions, so please let me know what you think about what there is so far, and what you’d like to see in the full version! If you like the beta and you want to play through the full game when it’s released, that should be sometime by the end of February. I’ll also be making a devlog update when the game hits release, so anyone following me should get a notification.

If you’ve read all that and you’re still here, your interest is appreciated, and I hope you like the game!

-BoN