
The game’s ability to double your investment in its world as you have another near miss with death is really quite brilliant. Numerous times I was cetain I’d foresaw a ‘game over’ on the horizon, only for Citizen Sleeper to throw me a curveball and send me on another tangent. The ways in which the storylines unfurl, especially ones involving these ‘dooms’ is Citizen Sleepers greatest strength. You’ll spend your cycles – Citizen Sleeper speak for turns – chatting up the inhabitants of the station, attempting tasks with dice rolls for a cash reward, and juggling a few ever-declining meters, all while dodging an impending doom or two.


Dice rolls, character classes, attributes, skills and turn-based actions are all present, but with unique twists here and there. Inspired by your classic tabletop role-playing games (TTRPG), Citizen Sleeper incorporates many of the staples that define the genre. After the release of In Other Waters in 2020, Citizen Sleeper follows suit as a similarly text-driven adventure in a world brimming with life, though very different mechanically. Go, Sleeper.Ĭitizen Sleeper is the sophormoric game from Jump Over The Age, a studio led solely by British developer Gareth Damian Martin. As a Sleeper, the emulated mind of a body long-lost, you’ll have to work twice as hard to survive on this space station, let alone gain your freedom. A refuge for those escaping the clutches of a capitalistic sytem gone dystopian. After what seems like a lifetime travelling the stillness of space you reach Erlin’s Eye. Citizen Sleeper Nintendo Switch download software Games Nintendo Citizen Sleeper System: Nintendo Switch Release date: Overview Gallery Details Live the life of an escaped worker, washed-up on a lawless station at the edge of an interstellar society.
