

And develop their skills the way they see fit. Mechanically, the game is set up to allow players to undergo the tasks they want and interact with NPCs relevant to their ideas. Attention CitizensĬitizen Sleeper dictates that there will be a much deeper meaning to everything you do than follow a traditionally value-based story arc. But how much of this gameplay will live and let us do what we want? We'll have to forge our path to outwit the burdens of interplanetary capitalism. To say that Citizen Sleeper looks intriguing is an understatement. The game has dark and gritty undertones, masked by the colors and lights of stereotypical sci-fi scenery. We have a unique sci-fi life simulator crossed with an RPG that takes us to the remote parts of space, based on a desolate station where every day is a fight for survival. 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 sounds like the documentation of an elderly action hero's life in a retirement home. Follow drives not quests, allowing you to pick and choose the stories and activities that matter to you.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. Clocks track both your actions and the actions of others across 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. Assign them to a vast range of actions available on the station. 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. You are the product of an abusive system, in a universe where humanity’s expansion is marked by exploitation and extraction. Essen-Arp: to them, you are just property, one more asset in a portfolio that stretches across the stars.Thrust amongst the unfamiliar and colorful 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.

You are a sleeper, a digitized human consciousness in an artificial body, owned by a corporation that wants you back.

From the developer of In Other Waters, and featuring the stunning character art of Guillaume Singelin, Citizen Sleeper is a 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.
