Citizen Sleeper casts you as a consciousness in a synthetic physique, tasking you with doing what you may to maintain that physique working in a world in disaster.
You awaken on this physique, however it’s not yours. Your consciousness has been offered be the unique “you” to an organization to allow them to have a soft existence. You, alternatively, get to toil eternally. 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 wish to die? Guess you’d higher discover some work. Which could be tough, as your property, Erlin’s Eye, has been left to wither and decay by the company masters who wish to punish the individuals 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. In case you scour for salvageable elements, choose up an odd job on the bar, attempt to suss out priceless info by way of hacking, or simply spend the day serving to individuals out, the cube determine what your final result is. It means no someday can be utterly profitable, however if you wish to reside, you need to strive. Nonetheless, a number of unhealthy days with out your physique’s wanted chemical will begin costing you cube. Which implies extra possibilities to fail. Which then causes you to get deeper within the gap and fail additional.
Citizen Sleeper creates a shocking cyberpunk imaginative and prescient of the cruelties of capitalism dropped at bear, particularly within the synthetic shortage that’s been imposed in your machine type. That you could so simply begin to slip into disrepair from a number of unhealthy days, after which begin a spiral of decay which you could’t escape, drives house the cyclical expertise of poverty and the inescapable vortex that may come from a single terrible second in your life.
Citizen Sleeper is accessible now on the Nintendo eShop, Microsoft Retailer, Humble Retailer, Epic Video games Retailer, GOG, and Steam.