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Hearsay Demo

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  • Game demo
  • Steam Achievements
  • Full controller support
  • Color Alternatives
  • Custom Volume Controls
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  • Playable without Timed Input
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Store status
Coming soon
Scheduled release
13 October 2026
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Release date
13 October 2026
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Release date13 October 2026Scheduled by Steam
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Game information

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App ID
5388730
App type
Demo
Supported systems
Windows
Genres
Adventure, Casual, Indie
Release date
13 October 2026
Last player update
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System requirements

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Windows

Minimum
Requirement
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS
Windows 10 64-bit
Processor
Any x86-64 CPU from 2015 or later
Memory
4 GB RAM
Graphics
Vulkan 1.1 capable — Intel HD 520 / AMD Radeon R5 / NVIDIA GTX 750 or better
Storage
2 GB available space
Sound Card
Required. This game is unplayable without audio output.
Additional Notes
Headphones strongly recommended.
Recommended
Requirement
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS
Windows 11 64-bit
Processor
Any modern x86-64 CPU
Memory
8 GB RAM
Graphics
Any discrete GPU from 2018 or later
Storage
2 GB available space
Sound Card
Any. Headphones.
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About this game

Description

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A small corner of the archive

This demo opens four of Hearsay's ten cabinets: Marches & Bands , Ragtime & Dance , The Concert Hall and Popular Favorites , where you will know some of the tunes before you have heard a whole one. Fourteen real recordings, every one of them public domain, out of the Library of Congress, cut into sixty-one unlabeled cassettes and left on the shelves and all over the floor.

There is no search. There are no titles. A tape tells you nothing until you play it.

Listen. Decide. Commit.

Put a fragment on the shelf under the sign you think it belongs to, in the position you think it holds, and the slot answers you immediately.

Green means right cabinet, right recording, right place.

Amber means right recording, wrong order.

Red means wrong cabinet entirely.

Get every piece of a recording in the right order and it plays through as one thing for the first time in a century. Each one you restore pays a splice, and the demo gives you enough of them to buy your first few upgrades, the bench included.

What's in the demo

14 recordings, 61 fragments, four cabinets

Your first splices and a handful of upgrades to spend them on

One of the five tapes left behind by whoever worked in this room last

About 30 to 45 minutes of play

Full controller support, and every keyboard control rebindable

The full game

Hearsay has 96 recordings, 415 tapes, ten cabinets, every upgrade and all five of the tapes that were left behind. It comes out November 3.

Demo progress does not carry over to the full game, and achievements are in the full game only.

Please read this before you play

Hearsay is played by ear. The puzzle is not captioned and will not be, because a transcript of a fragment is the answer to it. If you are deaf, this game's puzzle is not playable, and we would rather say so here.

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