Citizen Sleeper Retrospective – Building a new life, one cycle at a time.
3With so many games and so little time, Citizen Sleeper was yet another indie release that caught my eye before being swamped by tsunami of gaming news promoting the next best thing. Thankfully, returning to it three years late is easy, with the minimalist but stylish visuals, slick interface, and evocative soundtrack effectively timeless. And I’m glad I did return, as there is something comfortingly familiar yet fresh about the hybrid structure that blends a choice-driven visual novel with a dice-driven, tabletop-style RPG. It’s also uplifting as hell, despite the often-bleak setting and scenarios you’ll face, and had me wondering if my life was also just a string of choices and more RNG than I care for?
0:00 - Intro
0:44 - Premise and storytelling
2:51 - Gameplay systems
5:06 - Final thoughts
Our written retrospective: https://gameblur.net/retrospectives/citizen-sleeper-retrospective-building-a-new-life-one-cycle-at-a-time/
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Citizen Sleeper was played on Xbox Series S|X using a code provided to gameblur by the publisher. It is also available on PC, Xbox One, PS4/5, and Nintendo Switch.
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