Citizen Sleeper

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  • Summary: Live the life of an escaped worker, washed-up on a lawless station at the edge of an interstellar society. Inspired by the flexibility and freedom of Tabletop RPGs, explore the station, choose your friends, escape your past and change your future.
    LIFE ON ERLIN'S EYE
    An abandoned station    Live the life of an escaped worker, washed-up on a lawless station at the edge of an interstellar society. Inspired by the flexibility and freedom of Tabletop RPGs, explore the station, choose your friends, escape your past and change your future.
    LIFE ON ERLIN'S EYE
    An abandoned station on the edge of a system in crisis. Run down, chaotic, unruly, and alive—it was founded by idealists in the shadow of a corporate collapse. Now it is held together by anarchic alliances, ramshackle factions and a shared desire to be free from the gravity of corporate control.

    DO THE WORK. GET PAID. SURVIVE.
    Every cycle you get up and choose what to do with your time. Toil in the yards, or take a bar shift. Search the markets for rare components or grab some street food. Make or break alliances, uncover truths and escape those that hunt you. Learn to survive and ultimately thrive, one cycle at a time.

    TURN UP FOR YOUR FRIENDS
    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.

    ACCESS THEIR SECRETS
    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.

    YOU WERE MADE TO DIE
    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.    … Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 9
  3. Negative: 0 out of 9
  1. Vooks
    May 16, 2022
    90
    Citizen Sleeper is rich with ideas and atmosphere, and loves to tease you into its world. Don't be put off by the text-heavy gameplay if you enjoy a dystopian sci-fi setting with solid worldbuilding and some tight role-play mechanics.
  2. Comicbook.com
    May 3, 2022
    90
    Citizen Sleeper has captured my imagination in a way that few video games do. Thoughts of characters met and what could have been have percolated through my mind since finishing a playthrough after roughly five hours, which I did with an urgency not typical of me. If you're looking for something different, something that feels both fresh and timely and often beautiful and sometimes horrifying with its implications, Citizen Sleeper is all of those things and more. Even now, I hope I made the right decisions even with the full understanding that the game itself regularly insists that such a thing might not even exist.
  3. TouchArcade
    May 11, 2022
    90
    Those who enjoy a good narrative adventure will want to consider picking up Citizen Sleeper. It’s a very humble game in a lot of ways, but there’s plenty to dig into here if you give it a shot. The range of choices allowed me to feel like I had some agency over my character and their new life, and the dice mechanic added a pleasant random element to keep things interesting. A very cool slice of cyberpunk storytelling.
  4. Eurogamer Italy
    May 10, 2022
    80
    In a dystopian and dark world we will question the meaning of life and existence. An atypical RPG with interesting mechanics and a powerful and exciting story.
  5. Switch Player
    May 26, 2022
    80
    Overall, Citizen Sleeper is a fantastic game, with many quirky characters to meet and interesting stories to get engrossed in. If you are into tabletop RPGs and are looking for an easy-to-play substitute, this is the game for you.
  6. Movies Games and Tech
    May 25, 2022
    80
    As a whole, Citizen Sleeper is a fantastic RPG management game that involves a heavy dystopian tone of a derelict future. If this sounds like something you love, and if you’re a fan of games like In Other Waters and Disco Elysium then this may be for you. I’d recommend it to anyone searching for the next space-based adventure, especially since it only takes about five hours to fight your way through.
  7. GamesHub
    May 4, 2022
    60
    The stories in Citizen Sleeper are worth hearing, but the fairly sparse and restrictive mechanics underpinning the game begin to buckle under the demands of that storytelling. More complications resulting from task categories may have expanded the possibilities here, but despite this, Citizen Sleeper remains a great cyberpunk diorama, and it’s well worth uncovering all its little details.

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  1. Elite_Institute
    May 9, 2022
    9
    "Despite some navigation issues, Citizen Sleeper is the best narrative game I have played so far this year. With it’s cyberpunk setting, and"Despite some navigation issues, Citizen Sleeper is the best narrative game I have played so far this year. With it’s cyberpunk setting, and it’s cast of extremely likeable characters, it is something that will stick with me for a while. It may not be for everyone, but those interested in a captivating narrative experience will adore this gem of a title."

    https://theeliteinstitute.net/2022/05/09/citizen-sleeper/    … Expand
  2. lillajordbaer
    Apr 29, 2023
    9
    A narrative gem and an absolute must play, with two free DLCs which brings several hours more of story and gameplay. Might be a bit hard toA narrative gem and an absolute must play, with two free DLCs which brings several hours more of story and gameplay. Might be a bit hard to handle the "rolling dices" system at first but the game is absolutely worthy of your time.… Expand
  4. TomMonday
    Apr 12, 2023
    8
    You should absolutely play this engrossing atmospheric sci-fi game, especially if you’ve finished Disco Elysium and want a similar experience.You should absolutely play this engrossing atmospheric sci-fi game, especially if you’ve finished Disco Elysium and want a similar experience. And yet this title has a look and feel entirely its own – rewarding gamers who love slow burns and rich prose. The ending was an emotional gut-punch for me, despite creaky late-game storytelling.… Expand

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