Citizen Sleeper’s first DLC chapter, Flux, launches at the end of July

Citizen SleeperThe turn-based role-playing video game titled, launched in May on Nintendo Switch, Xbox Game Pass and PC. On July 28, at noon ET, it will receive the first three DLC episodes.

Titled Flux, This episode will start a story, which is played out across all three DLC chapters. So far, the launch of the second is scheduled for October. Jump Over the Age, aka Gareth Damian Martin and Fellow Traveler released a statement Tuesday. Flux New characters will be introduced and expanded upon Citizen Sleeper’s narrative and larger realm, the Helion System.

Citizen Sleeper, players are pursued by a dystopian megacorporation that has scheduled their body for “planned obsolescence.” Waking up on a derelict space station called Erlin’s Eye, players pick one of three classes and role-play their way through building a new life, with new allies, while preserving their old one.

Flux’s new characters include Eshe and Peake, captain and crewmember of the Climbing Briar, respectively. “The player will get to know more about them as they make a plan to get much needed relief through the quarantine to the refugee flotilla,” Tuesday’s news release said.

Citizen Sleeper launched May 5 on Nintendo Switch, Windows PC, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X. It’s a Polygon Recommends selection, and our review says its greatest strength “is to untether me from concrete objectives and let me exist without a reason.” It has earned widespread critical acclaim since, including an “overwhelmingly positive” reputation from user-scored reviews on Steam.