How Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector Builds on an Indie Game Pass Hit
Hi! I’m Gareth Damian Martin, also known as Jump Over the Age, creator of Citizen Sleeper. It’s been over a year since we launched on Game Pass and I have been so happy to see the positive response, and the sheer number of players that have given the game a try. I hope you’ve enjoyed the game and its three DLC episodes too!
But if you haven’t given our unique RPG a try, I’m happy to share that Citizen SleeperGame Pass will continue to offer this game, so you can enjoy it in the near future. But that isn’t all; thanks to the massively positive response to Citizen Sleeper, the game is also getting a sequel – Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector, and it’s coming to Xbox consoles.
Just like the original. Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward VectorThe game will launch on Xbox Series consoles as well as PC immediately upon release.
We announced the sequel in early 2018. In it, we introduced Laine, the sadistic leader of a gang, as well as a brand new character, the sleeper. Our new sleeper tries to reset their system to stop relying on Stabilizer – the drug their artificial body has been programmed to need. Laine interferes with this, but our sleeper is left with a defective body. He’s on the move, relying on an old ship that Serafin has stolen.
This sets up Starward Vector’s fresh take on the dice-based, RPG gameplay of Citizen Sleeper. The sequel keeps the freeform gameplay, but adds a new element: your very own spaceship. This ship doesn’t just allow you to travel around our new location, the Starward Belt; it also means you can take on contracts: High-risk, high-reward jobs, like scrapping a derelict freighter or repairing a stranded ship. To take on this work, necessary to keep your ship running, you’ll need to build a crew, and make the most of their abilities to maximize each job.
As with the original, it is the story and the characters that are the core of the game. Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector,You can be sure that contracts will have twists, difficult decisions, crews who are troublesome, and compelling stories, wherever your ship is.
Finally, I want to share a little more about one of the first locations you’ll visit, Hexport. This bustling port is one of the game’s hubs: Stations from which you’ll take on contracts and gather crew, each with its own unique locations, characters and stories.
The station is built on three hexagonal, vast solar panels left by the Solheim Corporation after they fled and collapsed. It has taken full advantage of this massive power flow from old technology. This helps drive both the Hexport Exchange – a trade hall filled with data-brokers and hackers – and Factory Row, an industrial sector packed with small factories turning out ship parts and habitat modules. It’s a great place to get hold of scrap contracts or find crew members, especially at the Bends bar, a popular spacer haunt.
You’ll see a lot more of Hexport soon, but for now I want to thank everyone for playing and supporting Citizen SleeperIts DLC. I’m so happy to be returning to this universe for the sequel,You can also find out more about the following: that never would have happened without everyone who has championed the game.
If you want to keep up to date, head over to https://citizensleeper.com/Helion-Dispatches to sign up for our newsletter, where you’ll also find the Helion Dispatches, an ongoing episodic narrative series that I’m writing which bridges the gap between Citizen Sleeper and Citizen Sleeper 2.
Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector
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On the Run / on the Edge
The Sleeper is a corporation-owned android that hides out at the Starward Belt, on the border of the Helion System. You are on the move with no memory and a malfunctioning system after a failed attempt to escape servitude.
YOUR SHIP / YOUR CREW / YOUR FUTURE
The past is gone. You have stolen a vessel. If you keep the ship running and upgrade it, it may be able to take you out of all that. But you can’t run it alone. You’ll need a crew, and while the Belt is full of those looking for work, it’s also full of trouble. Will you be able to keep the ship together during this time of crisis? You can build your refuge amongst the stars.
The System in Crisis
In the Helion System, a major crisis has developed. The Starward Belt is being affected by a covert, bitter war between two large corporate entities. The shores of the Belt are awash with refugees, warships in ruins, and strange, new technology. You must navigate through this ever-changing territory to take on new contracts, earn money, and live long enough to experience the next cycle.
READ YOUR DICE
Citizen Sleeper creates an immersive player-led game experience by using Tabletop RPG systems. Each cycle you’ll roll a set of Dice that you can then spend to complete actions. The greater the number of dice, the better the chances are to succeed.
Citizen Sleeper 2 : Starward Vector will feature the same award-winning, acclaimed system along with new features and mechanics. This will provide more complexity and depth.
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CITIZEN SLEEEPER EXPANDED
With the release of Episode PURGE, Citizen Sleeper’s three episode post-launch DLC expansion is now complete and the game has even more to offer with a thrilling late game storyline that delivers an immersive new narrative arc introducing additional characters, lore and locations. Players returning to Erlin’s Eye might even find themselves running into some familiar faces!
ROLEPLAYING IN THE RUINS OF INTERPLANETARY CAPITALISM
One of 2022’s most acclaimed indies, the Game Awards-nominated Citizen Sleeper is a Tabletop-inspired narrative RPG set on Erlin’s Eye, a ruined space station that is home to thousands of people trying to survive on the edges of an interstellar capitalist society.
Sleeper is a human mind in an artificial, digital body. The corporation owns you and wants your return. If you want to live to the next cycle, you’ll need to earn your way through this colourful metropolis and make new friends.
CASUALLY ROLL A DICE. Work hard. GET PAID. SURVIVE.
Citizen Sleeper, a tabletop Roleplaying game, uses Dice Clocks Drives as a way to provide a user-driven experience where the player can choose their path through a world that is rich, responsive and dynamic. Each time you play, you choose how to spend your time based on the dice that you receive. You can make or break allies, discover truths, and escape from your hunters. One cycle at a tme, sometimes even against the clock, you can survive and eventually thrive.
Turn Up for Your Friends
Station hosts characters of all backgrounds, who are trying to make a living amongst the stars. Each character has an interesting history that brought them to the station. Salvagers are here, as well as engineers, hacker, bartenders and street food vendors. Choose which one you want to assist, and you’ll shape your own future.
Access Their Secrets
Eventually, you will learn to use your dice to hack into the station’s cloud to access decades of digital data, uncover new areas and unlock secrets. With this power you have the ability to alter your own future. Corporate secrets, rogue AIs and troves of lost data await those willing to dive into the depths of the station’s networks.
You were made to die
Essen-Arp, to them, you are nothing more than property. You’re just another asset in their portfolio. You are the product of an abusive system, in a universe where humanity’s expansion is marked by exploitation and extraction. In a deeply relevant, richly-imagined sci-fi setting, you can escape your makers and take your own path.
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