Citizen Sleeper (2022)
Citizen Sleeper is a 2022 role-playing (rpg) video game made by Jump Over the Age and Fellow Traveller.
Jump Over the Age strands you as a Sleeper, an artificial mind housed in a manufactured body, aboard Erlin's Eye, a crumbling ring station at the edge of a broken system. You are running from the corporation that built and still owns you. Days pass by rolling dice each cycle, spending them on work, repairs, friendships, and the slow decay you must hold at bay. The writing is tender and political, more interested in the people scraping by around you than in heroics. Delicate character portraits and a mournful score set a quiet, humane tone.
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What is Citizen Sleeper about?
Jump Over the Age strands you as a Sleeper, an artificial mind housed in a manufactured body, aboard Erlin's Eye, a crumbling ring station at the edge of a broken system. You are running from the corporation that built and still owns you. Days pass by rolling dice each cycle, spending them on work, repairs, friendships, and the slow decay you must hold at bay. The writing is tender and political, more interested in the people scraping by around you than in heroics. Delicate character portraits and a mournful score set a quiet, humane tone.
When was Citizen Sleeper released?
Citizen Sleeper was released on 5 May 2022.
Who made Citizen Sleeper?
Citizen Sleeper was made by Jump Over the Age and Fellow Traveller.
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A few thoughts on Citizen Sleeper
For the same questions about owned, artificial life, read Ghost in the Shell. Let Deltron 3030 soundtrack the station's neon underclass, and lean on the Blade Runner score for its rain-slick melancholy. The narrative RPG closest in spirit is Disco Elysium, another game that trusts words over combat.
Weary drifters finding meaning at the edges of a broken system
Citizen Sleeper's Erlin's Eye is full of people scraping by on the margins of a corporate system that used them up. These picks share that same wandering, humane feel: drifters and outcasts finding small connections and quiet purpose in worlds that were never built with their wellbeing in mind.
Escaping the corporation that owns your body and your fate
Citizen Sleeper's whole premise is running from the company that built and still legally owns the body you live in. These books share that same fear: characters fleeing organizations that claim ownership over who they are, forced to build an identity and a future outside anyone else's control.
Melancholic electronic soundscapes for drifting through the dark
Citizen Sleeper pairs its dice-driven days with a mournful, spare score that never lets the station feel safe. These records carry that same tone: cold synths, ambient drones, and space-tinged rhythm built for staring out at the dark and quietly wondering how many cycles are left.