Posted on: November 21, 2024
mawsq
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Amazing worldbuilding etc.
The way the story, worldbuilding and mechanics interact is great.
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Citizen Sleeper
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One of 2022’s most acclaimed indies, the Game Awards-nominated Citizen Sleeper is a Tabletop-inspired narrative RPG set on Erlin’s Eye, a ruined space station that is home to thousands of people trying to survive on the edges of an interstellar capitalist society.
You are a sleeper, a digitised human consciousness in an artificial body, owned by a corporation that wants you back. Thrust amongst the unfamiliar and colourful inhabitants of the Eye, you need to build friendships, earn your keep, and navigate the factions of this strange metropolis, if you hope to survive to see the next cycle.
Inspired by Tabletop Roleplaying games, Citizen Sleeper uses Dice, Clocks and Drives to create a player-led experience, where you choose your path in a rich and responsive world. Each cycle you use the dice you are dealt to choose what to do with your time. Make or break alliances, uncover truths and escape your hunters. Survive and ultimately thrive, one cycle at a time, and sometimes against the clock!
The station plays host to characters from all walks of life, trying to eke out an existence among the stars. Salvagers, engineers, hackers, bartenders, street-food vendors, each has a history which brought them here. You choose which of them you wish to help, and together you will shape your future.
Eventually, you will learn to use your dice to hack into the station’s cloud to access decades of digital data, uncover new areas and unlock secrets. This is your unique power, and with it you can change your future. Corporate secrets, rogue AIs and troves of lost data await those willing to dive into the depths of the station’s networks.
Essen-Arp: to them you are just property, one more asset in a portfolio that stretches across the stars. You are the product of an abusive system, in a universe where humanity’s expansion is marked by exploitation and extraction. Escape the makers of your decaying body, and chart your own path in a richly imagined, deeply relevant sci-fi world which explores ideas of precarity, personhood and freedom.
Citizen Sleeper uses Dice, Clocks and Drives to create a player-led experience, where you choose your path in a rich and responsive world.
Each cycle you roll your dice. Assign them to vast range of actions available on the station. With every action, choose what, and who, matters to you, shaping the lives of those around you, and ultimately the future of the station.
Clocks track both your actions and the actions of others across the station. From becoming a local at the Overlook Bar to protecting a friend from Yatagan enforcers, clocks allow you to track your own progress and the influence you have on the world around you.
Follow drives not quests, allowing you to pick and choose the stories and activities that matter to you. As you do, you will shape your character's five skills (Engineer, Interface, Endure, Intuit and Engage), unlocking perks and bonuses that reflect and change how you choose to live in this world.
Citizen Sleeper now includes all three post-launch DLC episodes FLUX, REFUGE and PURGE, which expand the game and introduce additional characters and locations to Erlin’s Eye in an exciting new late game storyline.
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ABOUT THE DEVELOPER
Jump Over the Age is a one-person game development studio founded by Gareth Damian Martin (they/them). Gareth is the winner of GDCA and Indiecade awards, and has been nominated for a Games Award, multiple IGF Awards, a GDC Award, and four BAFTAs. They have been named both “An accomplished world-builder” (Edge Magazine) and “one of the most exciting indie talents around” (Eurogamer).
Published by Fellow Traveller ®. Fellow Traveller is a registered trademark of Surprise Attack Pty Ltd trading as Fellow Traveller Games. All rights reserved.
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Game Informer
9/10
In the end, though, Citizen Sleeper is less a critique of capitalism itself, which in its defense has been done countless times in the cyberpunk genre, and more an opportunity to showcase how those under its thumb persevere and succeed despite it. Its hopeful and inspiring message is backed by a branching, heartfelt narrative, and a great gameplay loop, making it tough to put down. Add in its enriching visual style and my favorite musical score of 2022 so far, and Citizen Sleeper is a game I'll be thinking about for years to come.
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Recommended
There is real anguish and intimacy here, real experience, real softness, pensiveness, complexity of thought, from the deeply clever, immaculately balanced systems to its extraordinarily well-realised art, static drawings of those characters that each feel like a glossy, coffee table magazine cover of their own, such is the incredible texture, colour, posture, pain behind the eyes. Citizen Sleeper is speaking to you, but in this case I really recommend you simply listen - not least because there's depth to be found in your own silence, and because the things it does have to say are absolutely worth hearing.
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80/100
An evocative life-sim RPG you won't want to wake up from.
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Posted on: January 15, 2025
Centurionpilot
Verified ownerGames: 878 Reviews: 11
Just one more cycle
I found this game to be rather addictive. Its basically time and resource management packaged into an interesting story. There are a few “woke” elements as a warning to people that have a problem with that but I found them to be unintrusive and sometimes even fitting the story. As the title said I just could not stop playing to see were the story goes and I was not disappointed. There a multiple ways to end the game by the way.
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Posted on: January 15, 2025
silentcrawl3r
Verified ownerGames: 114 Reviews: 1
Fun narative RPG
It is a fun narrative RPG with simple enough mechanics to understand, but the challenhe comes int he choices you make, living with the consequences of those choices and managing your time.
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Posted on: January 16, 2025
TETRAPAK001
Verified ownerGames: 77 Reviews: 1
Addictive!
I'm having a lot of fun exploring this game! The world building is neat! The game loop is addictive. I'm eager to start a new cycle (ingame day).
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Posted on: January 18, 2025
zzzz_tim
Verified ownerGames: 388 Reviews: 18
Engaging narrative
Best to think of this less as a traditional RPG, and more an interactive choose-your-own-adventure novel. The story seems to contain a number of relatively linear sections that can be approached in different orders depending on your decisions, but it doesn't appear as if there are many outcomes other than success/failure (or for some, reaching an ending vs continuing on the station). The writing is pretty good overall, well-described characters and environments that makes me want to find out more and help out the people. It feels like the opinions of the author show through in places, but not so much as to be shoved in your face. It's not that difficult, after the first scrabble of finding your feet. If you play it smart you'll likely be able to succeed at everything that comes up, even the unexpected twists. To me, that's ok; I'm more here for the story than for strategy - which is good, as there's fairly limited strategizing, just deciding which tasks to put your high dice in for a guaranteed success, vs which to take a risk on. Conclusion: impressive work for a solo indie dev. If you like interactive novel type games and/or sci-fi stories, then definitely pick it up when it's at a price you can live with.
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