Citizen Sleeper casts you as a consciousness in a synthetic physique, tasking you with doing what you possibly can 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 a company to allow them to have a soft existence. You, then again, get to toil endlessly. 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 might be troublesome, as your private home, Erlin’s Eye, has been left to wither and decay by the company masters who wish 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. When you scour for salvageable components, decide up an odd job on the bar, attempt to suss out helpful info via hacking, or simply spend the day serving to folks out, the cube determine what your end result is. It means no in the future will likely be fully profitable, however if you wish to dwell, you must strive. Nevertheless, a couple of dangerous days with out your physique’s wanted chemical will begin costing you cube. Which implies extra probabilities 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 kind. Which you can so simply begin to slip into disrepair from a couple of dangerous days, after which begin a spiral of decay 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 obtainable now on the Nintendo eShop, Microsoft Retailer, Humble Retailer, Epic Video games Retailer, GOG, and Steam.