Hello! I’m Gareth Damian Martin, often known as Soar Over the Age, creator of Citizen Sleeper. It’s been over a yr since we launched on Sport Cross and I’ve been so comfortable to see the optimistic response, and the sheer variety of gamers which have given the sport a strive. I hope you’ve loved the sport and its three DLC episodes too!
However should you haven’t given our distinctive RPG a strive, I’m comfortable to share that Citizen Sleeper can be staying on Sport Cross, supplying you with loads of alternative to expertise it for the foreseeable future. However that isn’t all; because of the massively optimistic response to Citizen Sleeper, the sport can also be getting a sequel – Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector, and it’s coming to Xbox consoles.
And, identical to the unique, Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector can be a day one Sport Cross launch, which means subscribers will be capable of play on Xbox Collection consoles and PC from launch.
After we introduced the sequel earlier within the yr, we launched a brand new sleeper, a brand new ally named Serafin, and a brand new antagonist within the type of sadistic gang chief Laine. In our animated reveal, our new sleeper makes an attempt to reboot their system with the intention to break their reliance on Stabilizer, the drug that their synthetic physique is programmed to require. Laine interrupts the method, nevertheless, leaving our sleeper with a malfunctioning physique, on the run, and reliant on a ramshackle ship, stolen with the assistance of Serafin.
This units up Starward Vector’s recent tackle the dice-based, RPG gameplay of Citizen Sleeper. Maintaining the identical freeform gameplay and richly drawn world, the sequel deepens the method via its greatest addition, your individual spaceship. This ship doesn’t simply can help you journey round our new location, the Starward Belt; it additionally means you’ll be able to tackle contracts: Excessive-risk, high-reward jobs, like scrapping a derelict freighter or repairing a stranded ship. To tackle this work, essential to preserve your ship working, you’ll have to construct a crew, and profit from their skills to maximise every job.
However as with the unique sport, the narrative and characters are on the coronary heart of Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector, so you’ll be able to anticipate contracts to have surprising twists and tough decisions, for crew to carry bother to your door, and to seek out compelling slice-of-life tales wherever you select to take your ship.
Lastly, I need to share a little bit extra about one of many first areas you’ll go to, Hexport. This bustling port is without doubt one of the sport’s hubs: Stations from which you’ll tackle contracts and collect crew, every with its personal distinctive areas, characters and tales.
Constructed on the again of three huge, hexagonal photo voltaic panels that have been left behind when the Solheim company collapsed and fled the system, the station has taken benefit of the huge move of energy from this previous tech. This helps drive each the Hexport Change – a commerce corridor stuffed with data-brokers and hackers – and Manufacturing facility Row, an industrial sector full of small factories turning out ship elements and habitat modules. It’s a fantastic place to pay money for scrap contracts or discover crew members, particularly on the Bends bar, a well-liked spacer hang-out.
You’ll see much more of Hexport quickly, however for now I need to thank everybody for taking part in and supporting Citizen Sleeper and its DLC. I’m so comfortable to be returning to this universe for the sequel, and that by no means would have occurred with out everybody who has championed the sport.
If you wish to preserve updated, head over to https://citizensleeper.com/Helion-Dispatches to join our e-newsletter, the place you’ll additionally discover the Helion Dispatches, an ongoing episodic narrative sequence that I’m writing which bridges the hole between Citizen Sleeper and Citizen Sleeper 2.
Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector
Fellow Traveller
ON THE RUN / ON THE EDGE
You’re a Sleeper, a corporate-owned android hiding out within the Starward Belt on the fringe of the Helion System. After a determined try and free your self from servitude by rewriting the very code that governs your system, you might be on the run with a malfunctioning physique, a worth in your head and no reminiscence of your previous.
YOUR SHIP / YOUR CREW / YOUR FUTURE
You stole a ship and left the previous behind. Hold it working, keep it, even improve it, and possibly it’ll carry you away from all this. However you’ll be able to’t run it alone. You’ll want a crew, and whereas the Belt is stuffed with these on the lookout for work, it is also filled with bother. Are you able to maintain the ship collectively via this disaster? Are you able to construct a refuge right here, among the many stars?
A SYSTEM IN CRISIS
There’s a disaster unfolding within the Helion System. Two huge company entities are preventing a bitter, covert warfare, touching all the pieces, even the Starward Belt. Waves of refugees, shattered hulks of warring ships, unusual new applied sciences, all are washing up on the shore of the Belt. Navigate this shifting territory, tackle contracts, receives a commission, and survive to see the following cycle.
ROLL YOUR DICE
Citizen Sleeper makes use of Tabletop RPG impressed methods to create a singular player-led expertise. Every cycle you’ll roll a set of Cube you could then spend to finish actions. The upper the die, the higher the prospect of success.
This award-winning and acclaimed system will return in Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector alongside all new methods and mechanics that may supply extra depth, complexity and problem.
Citizen Sleeper
Fellow Traveller
$19.99
$11.99
PC Sport Cross
Xbox Sport Cross
CITIZEN SLEEPER EXPANDED
With the discharge of Episode PURGE, Citizen Sleeper’s three episode post-launch DLC growth is now full and the sport has much more to supply with an exhilarating late sport storyline that delivers an immersive new narrative arc introducing extra characters, lore and areas. Gamers returning to Erlin’s Eye would possibly even discover themselves working into some acquainted faces!
ROLEPLAYING IN THE RUINS OF INTERPLANETARY CAPITALISM
Certainly one of 2022’s most acclaimed indies, the Sport Awards-nominated Citizen Sleeper is a Tabletop-inspired narrative RPG set on Erlin’s Eye, a ruined house station that’s house to hundreds of individuals attempting to outlive on the sides of an interstellar capitalist society.
You’re a sleeper, a digitised human consciousness in a man-made physique, owned by an organization that wishes you again. Thrust amongst the unfamiliar and vibrant inhabitants of the Eye, you have to construct friendships, earn your preserve, and navigate the factions of this unusual metropolis, should you hope to outlive to see the following cycle.
ROLL THE DICE. DO THE WORK. GET PAID. SURVIVE.
Impressed by Tabletop Roleplaying video games, Citizen Sleeper makes use of Cube, Clocks and Drives to create a player-led expertise, the place you select your path in a wealthy and responsive world. Every cycle you employ the cube you might be dealt to decide on what to do along with your time. Make or break alliances, uncover truths and escape your hunters. Survive and in the end thrive, one cycle at a time, and typically in opposition to the clock!
TURN UP FOR YOUR FRIENDS
The station performs host to characters from all walks of life, attempting to eke out an existence among the many stars. Salvagers, engineers, hackers, bartenders, street-food distributors, every has a historical past which introduced them right here. You select which ones you want to assist, and collectively you’ll form your future.
ACCESS THEIR SECRETS
Finally, you’ll be taught to make use of your cube to hack into the station’s cloud to entry many years of digital information, uncover new areas and unlock secrets and techniques. That is your distinctive energy, and with it you’ll be able to change your future. Company secrets and techniques, rogue AIs and troves of misplaced information await these keen to dive into the depths of the station’s networks.
YOU WERE MADE TO DIE
Essen-Arp: to them you might be simply property, yet one more asset in a portfolio that stretches throughout the celebrities. You’re the product of an abusive system, in a universe the place humanity’s growth is marked by exploitation and extraction. Escape the makers of your decaying physique, and chart your individual path in a richly imagined, deeply related sci-fi world which explores concepts of precarity, personhood and freedom.
