![]() ![]() Together my sleeper and Rabiah took back the gang from corporate overlords all while supplying local families with much needed food and resources. To her the Yatagan were in place to look out for the folks on the Eye who couldn’t look out for themselves. And with so much freedom, not only is the game easy to revisit, but it makes the path you do choose that first playthrough even more meaningful.īut what started as a tough choice to get out of a life-or-death scenario led to a close relationship with a Robin Hood-esque fighter named Rabiah. With over nine endings, Citizen Sleeper places the player’s macro- and micro-moment decision at the forefront. The game’s comparisons to TTRPG aren’t just held at Citizen Sleeper’s gameplay bones though. Meanwhile, rolling a 6 will be an instant success similar to a critical 20. ![]() Like in Dungeons & Dragons and similar games, rolling a 1 will likely lead to a poor outcome of whatever activity you’re attempting, whether that’s making noodle deliveries in the slums or trying to outrun a cybernetic electric-tentacled tiger monster. ![]() To make things more interesting, Citizen Sleeper incorporates tabletop RPG-style dice rolls that will determine how successful you will be over the course of the next day. The main mechanic of the game is a whole lot of reading, with some of the best-written characters, dialogues, and first-person storytelling in an era of countless mediocre choose-your-own-adventure visual novels. Here your player character will take on a rough life of danger as you hide from bounty hunters, work dingy jobs for credits to pay for life-saving medicines, and live in a shipping container. In Citizen Sleeper you play as a human mind that has been placed in a robotic body called a sleeper, trapped on a space station called the Eye. Then the light bulb went off for me as I finally got how powerful the android narrative can be. ![]() That was - until discovering Citizen Sleeper last year. But while it’s beautiful and poetic, I still have a hard time connecting to the androids outside of a simple sympathy that society has chosen to eliminate them. I can appreciate that the iconic Ridley Scott dystopian classic has plenty to say about humanity, life, and the soul, all through a dark noir lens. I know it’s a controversial opinion, but as a film lover, I’ve always thought Blade Runner was just OK. ![]()
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