Citizen Sleeper, new sci-fi RPG, set for Xbox, PC, Switch release

Indie writer Fellow Traveler and developer Gareth Damian Martin (aka Soar Over The Age) introduced Monday that Citizen Sleeper, the turn-based narrative RPG follow-up to the developer’s 2020 journey recreation In Different Waters, will launch on Could fifth on Xbox Collection X|S, Xbox One, PC, Mac, and Nintendo Swap. As previously announced final month, the sport can even be out there day one on Xbox Recreation Cross.

Set in a dystopian sci-fi future, the turn-based narrative RPG pits gamers within the position of a Sleeper; a digitized human consciousness in a synthetic physique who escapes from their company masters. Waking up on Erlin’s Eye, a derelict house station on the fringes of interplanetary capitalist society, you’ll should construct relationships between the sport’s colourful solid of outcasts, hackers, and mercenaries so as to earn your preserve, restore your ailing physique, and uncover the secrets and techniques buried throughout the station’s ruined stays.

Impressed by tabletop RPGs, Citizen Sleeper employs a turn-based system that has gamers assign “cube” to quite a few selections all through the sport, whose outcomes will play out over the course of a number of “cycles.” With every cycle extra unpredictable than the final, you’ll should assume in your ft and make arduous selections so as to keep one step forward of your former company overlords in your private journey for survival and freedom.

That includes music composed by Amos Roddy (Kingdom: Two Crowns, Strafe, In Different Waters) and character artwork by French comedian ebook artist Guillaume Singelin, Citizen Sleeper seems to be a daring leap from the charming minimalist design of 2020’s In Different Waters.

[Disclosure: The writer wrote once for Heterotopias, a digital zine and website created by In Other Waters developer Gareth Damian Martin.]