Citizen Sleeper casts you as a consciousness in a man-made physique, tasking you with doing what you may to maintain that physique working in a world in disaster.
You awaken on this physique, however you already know it’s not yours. Your consciousness has been bought be the unique “you” to an organization to allow them to have a comfortable existence. You, however, get to toil without end. Or at the least till your physique breaks down. To maintain you motivated, your new physique wants meals, shelter, and a chemical to maintain your thoughts from rejecting your synthetic physique. Don’t need to die? Guess you’d higher discover some work. Which could be troublesome, as your property, Erlin’s Eye, has been left to wither and decay by the company masters who need to punish the folks there for daring to want for a greater life.
The way you survive is as much as you. You begin every day with a set of cube, and these will dictate whether or not you succeed (or solely have a CHANCE to succeed) at what you do. Should you scour for salvageable elements, decide up an odd job on the bar, attempt to suss out invaluable data via hacking, or simply spend the day serving to folks out, the cube determine what your final result is. It means no sooner or later might be utterly profitable, however if you wish to reside, it’s important to strive. Nonetheless, a couple of unhealthy days with out your physique’s wanted chemical will begin costing you cube. Which suggests extra possibilities to fail. Which then causes you to get deeper within the gap and fail additional.
Citizen Sleeper creates a surprising cyberpunk imaginative and prescient of the cruelties of capitalism delivered to bear, particularly within the synthetic shortage that’s been imposed in your machine type. That you would be able to so simply begin to slip into disrepair from a couple of unhealthy days, after which begin a spiral of decay that you may’t escape, drives dwelling the cyclical expertise of poverty and the inescapable vortex that may come from a single terrible second in your life.
Citizen Sleeper is on the market now on the Nintendo eShop, Microsoft Retailer, Humble Retailer, Epic Video games Retailer, GOG, and Steam.
