There's no sense of punishment or being obstructed in your progression. The actual experience of playing Citizen Sleeper is one of the most friendly and relaxing I've ever had. Yet, I've rarely found a more welcoming place. Watch on YouTube There is a time limit to get everything done by in the final piece of DLC, Purge, but with a late-game character and their bonuses, you should have more than enough time to do that, and tie up any loose ends you had before. And when you layer on top of that some clinical boxes for dice rolls, and pie-chart gauges, there's an air of impenetrability about it, at least initially. It's all, to a large degree, in your head. There are no voice overs or animations or cutscenes.

There's some detailed character art but beyond that, everything plays out in text. I get where she's coming from: Citizen Sleeper doesn't seem, outwardly, very eventful. 'It's not my kind of thing,' she said, and walked away. 'Well, you go around the space station talking to people, and you roll dice to spend on doing tasks.' She looked at me blankly. I tried to tell my partner what it was you did in the game. It touched me on a deeper level, and even months later, I remember it.īut it's a strange game to tell other people about, which is something I was reminded of this morning while finishing the last part of the new three-piece DLC story arc (which is free, by the way, and all episodes are out now).

It's one of those experiences that pushed beyond its game boundaries, for me, and spoke to deeper things I hold to be important in my real life: things like friendship and belonging, and helping people out while asking for nothing in return.

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