Hello! I’m Gareth Damian Martin, often known as Leap Over the Age, creator of Citizen Sleeper. It’s been over a 12 months since we launched on Sport Cross and I’ve been so comfortable to see the constructive 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 in case 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 constructive response to Citizen Sleeper, the sport can 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 Sequence consoles and PC from launch.
Once we introduced the sequel earlier within the 12 months, 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 a purpose to break their reliance on Stabilizer, the drug that their synthetic physique is programmed to require. Laine interrupts the method, nonetheless, 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. Conserving the identical freeform gameplay and richly drawn world, the sequel deepens the system via its greatest addition, your individual spaceship. This ship doesn’t simply let 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 maintain your ship working, you’ll must construct a crew, and profit from their talents 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 sudden twists and tough decisions, for crew to carry hassle to your door, and to seek out compelling slice-of-life tales wherever you select to take your ship.
Lastly, I wish to share a bit of 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 had been left behind when the Solheim company collapsed and fled the system, the station has taken benefit of the huge stream of energy from this previous tech. This helps drive each the Hexport Trade – a commerce corridor crammed with data-brokers and hackers – and Manufacturing unit Row, an industrial sector full of small factories turning out ship components and habitat modules. It’s an important 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 wish to thank everybody for enjoying 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 maintain updated, head over to https://citizensleeper.com/Helion-Dispatches to enroll in our e-newsletter, the place you’ll additionally discover the Helion Dispatches, an ongoing episodic narrative collection 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 to free your self from servitude by rewriting the very code that governs your system, you’re 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. Maintain it working, keep it, even improve it, and perhaps 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 stuffed with hassle. 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 struggle, 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 subsequent cycle.
ROLL YOUR DICE
Citizen Sleeper makes use of Tabletop RPG impressed techniques to create a singular player-led expertise. Every cycle you’ll roll a set of Cube which you could then spend to finish actions. The upper the die, the higher the possibility of success.
This award-winning and acclaimed system will return in Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector alongside all new techniques and mechanics that may provide 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 exciting late sport storyline that delivers an immersive new narrative arc introducing further characters, lore and areas. Gamers returning to Erlin’s Eye may even discover themselves working into some acquainted faces!
ROLEPLAYING IN THE RUINS OF INTERPLANETARY CAPITALISM
One in all 2022’s most acclaimed indies, the Sport Awards-nominated Citizen Sleeper is a Tabletop-inspired narrative RPG set on Erlin’s Eye, a ruined area station that’s house to 1000’s of individuals making an attempt to outlive on the sides of an interstellar capitalist society.
You’re a sleeper, a digitised human consciousness in a synthetic physique, owned by an organization that desires you again. Thrust amongst the unfamiliar and vibrant inhabitants of the Eye, you should construct friendships, earn your maintain, and navigate the factions of this unusual metropolis, in case you hope to outlive to see the subsequent 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 utilize the cube you’re dealt to decide on what to do together with your time. Make or break alliances, uncover truths and escape your hunters. Survive and finally thrive, one cycle at a time, and typically towards the clock!
TURN UP FOR YOUR FRIENDS
The station performs host to characters from all walks of life, making an attempt 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
Ultimately, you’ll be taught to make use of your cube to hack into the station’s cloud to entry many years of digital knowledge, 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 knowledge await these keen to dive into the depths of the station’s networks.
YOU WERE MADE TO DIE
Essen-Arp: to them you’re simply property, yet one more asset in a portfolio that stretches throughout the celebs. 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.