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Citizen Sleeper
Released On: May 5, 2022
82
7.2
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Based on 22 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 22 Critic Reviews
82
77% Positive
17 Reviews
17 Reviews
5% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
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Citizen Sleeper is an amazing piece of sci-fi media and an even better TTRPG game that will have you glued to your seat to the early hours of the morning, reading and trying to figure out how this world and its colorful characters work. If you love adventure and story in games you mustn’t pass on this one.
Citizen Sleeper is a title that we feel we can promote without too many hesitations because it represents what any author's game should be: a personal work that carries out its main theme within its systems, that is, that makes its ultimate meaning in the mechanics alive.
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Based on 47 User Ratings
7.2
60% Positive
28 Ratings
28 Ratings
23% Mixed
11 Ratings
11 Ratings
17% Negative
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User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 47 User Ratings
7.2
60% Positive
28 Ratings
28 Ratings
23% Mixed
11 Ratings
11 Ratings
17% Negative
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
Possibly one of the best games I've ever played, an amazing story and artwork, not to mention the phenomenal writing. I think the gameplay or lackthereof is a perfect framework for this story and a perfect way to tell it, not once did i become frustrated with the games mechanics. I played this game for 12 hours straight and got i want to say 4 endings of 7, and this is without a doubt my favorite game of all time and will remain so for years to come
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This has better writing than (at least in my humble opinion) Fallout: New Vegas and has supplanted that game's position as likely my favorite videogame. My only criticism of the game is that it's just not long enough, and for that reason, I cannot recommend it more.
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A cyberpunk life sim, as rough as it is emotional. Citizen Sleeper is all about the story (which is great), not so much the gameplay elements (which are very simple).
Despite its simple gameplay, Citizen Sleeper still captivates players thanks to its intriguing cyberpunk story and its rich and detailed setting, full of history, personality and charm.
Citizen Sleeper creates a strong universe and gives the main character an engaging story with plenty of choices. Erlin’s Eye feels like a small part of a well-designed narrative space that can support more exploration. The visual design fits in with the wider themes of the game and the characters never become preachy. The problem is that the developer also cares about gameplay and the concept of investing for a result. The dice system is adequate enough, but everything takes so long and requires too many clicks. Citizen Sleeper would have probably worked better as a more classic visual novel, with the resources assigned to mechanics re-routed to deliver more story.
Citizen Sleeper is fantastic. It's a deep and well-crafted narrative experience with a fascinating setting, and is filled with plenty of challenging questions for players to ponder over. This is a game that gets cyberpunk right.
Overall, Citizen Sleeper is the kind of game one has to be in the right mood for. The setting is cold and alienating, while the overall mood for much of the game is a desperate struggle for survival against stacked odds. Once the stress of this abates, however, there are some genuinely lovely moments of characterization and storytelling that are absolutely worth it to experience. The challenging dice-based tabletop gaming experience is stressful at first, but loses some of its challenge as situations are dealt with, giving way to lovely and thought-provoking story interludes. With the developer supporting the game further with several pieces of free DLC, there’s a good amount of worthwhile sci-fi to experience here.
Citizen Sleeper is a captivating science fiction story settled on a heavy damaged space station called The Eye. The mysterious space station is isolated somewhere in deep space, inhabited as much as humans and artificial intelligence. Living on The Eye, means a hard life with a lot of drama. It proves to be a place too small for too different characters wich interact and give rise either to conflict or profound friendship. Here you find discrimination, a fierce struggle for surviving, a small local economy with an import and export market, different factions with their own agendas, and more drama.
The playable character is a "Sleeper", a human whose mind has been digitized and has been put into a robot body to be controlled by the Essen-Arp corporation. He decide to break free from his masters and escapes on a freighter which brings him to The Eye. Here is where it starts his real fight for surviving and freedom. Your main objective is to survive on The Eye, your new home, build up your own connections and, eventually, leave the place. To accomplish that you have to run different jobs to maintain your robotic body in a good condition and to make your way to the final destination.
I like the game story very much, with its complexity and logical settings. The characters are various, with a rich personality and a complex backstory. The missions feel too easy to fulfill, all you need is a lucky roll of dices. I praise the characters design but the rest of the graphics aren't impressive. This is my score for each department of the game: Gameplay: 5/10; Story: 7/10; Characters: 8/10; Video: 2/10; Audio: 6/10; User Interface: 4/10
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It's a tabletop/text adventure-like game about struggle, the ownership of your body, and the survival on a capitalist space station. Quests and npcs abound where cycles and available dice dictate what you can and cannot do. I like the premise but the execution is too simplistic.
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I like the artstyle, the mechanics are fun. However the ideological hammer that beats you in the head is a bit difficult to miss.
The evil capitalist corporation, that owns everything including your body (you get it?! Not your body, not your choice!) Fights the good physically strong women. It's too blatant for good storytelling and makes it more like a fairy tale than cyberpunk. There are no gray-area for your morals. Everything is black or white, good or bad. A bit lazy story..
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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 on the edge of a system in crisis. Run down, cha...
Platforms:
- PC
- Xbox Series X
- Xbox One
- Nintendo Switch
- PlayStation 5
- PlayStation 4
Initial Release Date: May 5, 2022
Developer:
- Jump Over The Age
Publisher: Fellow Traveller
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