The outcome was positive, meaning my Sleeper had done a great job and was paid for their labour. I rolled a five at the start of the day and decided to assign it to the activity. Inspired by tabletop RPGs, Citizen Sleeper employs a turn-based system that has players assign “dice” to numerous choices throughout the game, whose outcomes will play out over the course of several “cycles.” With each cycle more unpredictable than the last, you’ll have to think on your feet and make hard decisions in order to stay one step ahead of your former corporate overlords in your personal journey for survival and freedom.įeaturing music composed by Amos Roddy ( Kingdom: Two Crowns, Strafe, In Other Waters) and character art by French comic book artist Guillaume Singelin, Citizen Sleeper appears to be a bold leap from the charming minimalist design of 2020’s In Other Waters.It's something that's easily overlooked but one detail I love about the dice mechanic is that to assign one to an activity, you need to manually click and drag it into the event's square, satisfyingly slotting it in place, just as you would if you were assigning dice on an actual TTRPG board.ĭuring my first day, I needed to make some money or risk starving and decided to take up a job manually sorting through metal salvage. Waking up on Erlin’s Eye, a derelict space station at the fringes of interplanetary capitalist society, you’ll have to build relationships between the game’s colorful cast of outcasts, hackers, and mercenaries in order to earn your keep, repair your ailing body, and uncover the secrets buried within the station’s ruined remains. Set in a dystopian sci-fi future, the turn-based narrative RPG pits players in the role of a Sleeper a digitized human consciousness in an artificial body who escapes from their corporate masters. As previously announced last month, the game will also be available day one on Xbox Game Pass. Indie publisher Fellow Traveler and developer Gareth Damian Martin (aka Jump Over The Age) announced Monday that Citizen Sleeper, the turn-based narrative RPG follow-up to the developer’s 2020 adventure game In Other Waters, will release on May 5th on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PC, Mac, and Nintendo Switch.
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