![]() As an asylum seeker you are here to make a new life of sorts, far from the corporate masters you've escaped from. Huge chunks of its ring habitat are missing. You arrive as a robotic refugee on Erlin's Eye, a rotating space station that has seen years of damage and disrepair. You can be a motor-kicking Machinist, a hardened mining Extractor, or an Operator who likes to hack the planet. Even when the game's own systems of dice and clocks clash with its stories of human interest, it is the people who come out on top. Throwing off the shackles of a faceless process governing your life is a recurring theme in this blend of sci-fi RPG and interactive fiction, and it makes for a strong rags-to-ramen story of one robot on the run. Systems should not govern people's behaviour, he says, the people are what matters. In one scene he explains his deep anti-capitalist reasoning to you. He is not my favourite character in Citizen Sleeper but he is the one who best represents it. Feng is a zealous computers guy with less of an axe to grind and more of a guillotine to set up. From: Steam, GOG, Epic Games Store, Humble. ![]() I even moved out of the shipping container I slept in.A swish sci-fi RPG full of decent folk and just the right amount of scum. I made money playing a game called tavla at the Tambour Tearoom-like so many RPGs, gambling is the best way to get rich-and got my mushroom farm set up nicely. Eventually, a reckoning will come.Īs Citizen Sleeper goes on you get better at exploiting its systems, and find solutions to these problems. ![]() The corporation or their freelancers will track you down eventually, and every hack you perform gives the bestial AI who patrols the station's cyberspace another whiff of your scent. ![]() More pressure is provided by the hunters. The stabilizer you need to refill your condition is expensive, and hard to source. Like a mobile phone or a lightbulb, you're not made to last. ![]() As it ticks down you get less dice to spend. Thanks to the corporation who planned your obsolescence, you've got a condition stat in constant decay. The UI tells you how many cycles before the next chapter begins, so while waiting you go back to work at the bar or the farm stacks, explore the Rotunda or the Hub, and try not to fall apart. ![]()
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