Except, you've woken on a space station and slipped your corporate shackles somehow. You are a Sleeper in the game, you see, a sort of cyborg, and you're the property of a galactic corporation.
This can be a good thing, like moving a part of a story on, or it can be a bad thing, like being hunted. They look like pie charts and are either filled by doing repeatable tasks or simply by the passing of time, and when they're full, something happens. While all of this is going on, gauges fill. When you've used all your dice, you go to your home space on the station and sleep, starting a new round and a roll of the dice. The higher the number on the die, the greater your chance of success (and character's skills modify this), but there are neutral and negative outcomes too - and depending on how risky the task is, these can potentially sting. To do this, you use your cursor to pull a rolled-die down from the top of your screen into an activity box, then wait for the outcome.
You then individually use those dice to accomplish tasks, like earning money at a scrap metal yard or exploring an area. Every round, a new set of dice is rolled. There are some eye-catching character illustrations to decorate it, and a simply rendered space station floating in the background, but it's mostly text and imagination that fuel the adventure.
The role-playing part is familiar: you experience a space station playing area through text, and there's a character sheet with skills you can improve as you level up. Availability: Coming to PC in spring 2022Ĭitizen Sleeper is a mixture of board game and role-playing game.Their new game Citizen Sleeper leaves a similar impression but it works rather differently. It was elegant, it was unusual and it worked - it made a big impression on me.
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