With its newly acquired Volition collection – which contains everything from game builds to, seemingly, office floorplans – The Strong National Museum of Play can knit together the moth-eaten scraps of the Saints Row developer's 30-year history, illuminating forgotten details about forgotten games, including a Batman stealth title that never saw the light of day.
As I watched The Strong's director of digital preservation Andrew Borman boot up the unreleased demo in front of me this week, I couldn't understand what I was seeing, at first. A video of the demo (which you can watch below) made its way online last year, but, supposedly Volition wasn't able to save a playable version after parent company Embracer abruptly shut it down in 2023.
