$19.99Citizen Sleeper A borrowed body, a story that stays
Roll dice, take odd jobs on a lawless station and decide what your future is worth.
Is Citizen Sleeper worth it?
Citizen Sleeper is worth it if…
- you like stories where the mood and the people matter more than winning
- you enjoy tabletop RPGs and want their dice-and-clocks feel in a single-player game
- you want a calm, text-led game you can unwind with in short sessions
- you like melancholic sci-fi about found family and making a home in a hard place
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Dice, cycles and the shape of a day
Each cycle you roll your dice and decide what they buy you: fix a ship, work a shift, talk to someone, dig through data. Every action takes a die, so a day on Erlin's Eye is a small puzzle about what matters most right now. Clocks track your progress and the moves other people make, and drives let you pick the stories you care about instead of following a quest list. There are few hard timers and little punishing failure, so the pressure comes from the choices themselves, not from a clock breathing down your neck. You build your five skills as you go, and the perks change how you live.
A station full of people worth knowing
Erlin's Eye is home to salvagers, engineers, hackers, bartenders and street-food vendors, each with a history that brought them to the edge of interstellar space. You choose who to help and who to trust, and those friendships shape your future on the station. The writing is the heart of the game: it is thoughtful and precise, and it makes the Eye feel lived in. The hand-drawn characters and the soundtrack carry it all, the kind of music you might leave playing after you close the game.
Your body is not yours
You are a sleeper, a digitised human consciousness in an artificial body owned by the corporation that made it. That body is decaying, and the stabiliser that keeps it running comes only from the company hunting you. So you work, trade favours and stay careful, because nearly everything you do carries some risk of exposure. Hacking the station's cloud is your own talent: use your dice to slip into decades of corporate data, uncover new areas and learn things that can change your future. It is a story about precarity and personhood, told through the mechanics as much as the words.
Can you play it more than once?
Is there combat?
No. Conflict here is social and systemic: you argue, negotiate, hack and work, and the dice decide how well a plan goes. If you want a game about surviving by wits and relationships rather than gunfire, that is exactly what this is.
Do your choices actually matter?
They shape your own path, your skills and which endings you can reach, and the station responds to what you do. The honest caveat: stories mostly run side by side, so a choice in one rarely changes another. You are choosing your own route through the Eye more than rewriting everyone else's.
Do you need to like reading?
Yes, comfortably. This is a text-based game at heart, dialogue heavy and told through prose rather than cutscenes. The writing is a highlight and rarely feels like a chore, but if you skip text blocks out of habit, the game's main pleasure will pass you by.
