Hi! I’m Gareth Damian Martin, also referred to as Jump Over the Age, creator of Citizen Sleeper. It’s been over a 12 months since we launched on Game Pass and I’ve been so completely happy to see the constructive response, and the sheer variety of gamers which have given the sport a strive. I hope you’ve loved the sport and its three DLC episodes too!
But if you happen to haven’t given our distinctive RPG a strive, I’m completely happy to share that Citizen Sleeper will likely be staying on Game Pass, supplying you with loads of alternative to expertise it for the foreseeable future. But that isn’t all; due to the massively constructive response to Citizen Sleeper, the sport can also be getting a sequel – Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector, and it’s coming to Xbox consoles.
And, identical to the unique, Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector will likely be a day one Game Pass launch, which means subscribers will be capable to play on Xbox Series consoles and PC from launch.
When we introduced the sequel earlier within the 12 months, we launched a brand new sleeper, a brand new ally named Serafin, and a brand new antagonist within the type of sadistic gang chief Laine. In our animated reveal, our new sleeper makes an attempt to reboot their system as a way to break their reliance on Stabilizer, the drug that their synthetic physique is programmed to require. Laine interrupts the method, nonetheless, leaving our sleeper with a malfunctioning physique, on the run, and reliant on a ramshackle ship, stolen with the assistance of Serafin.
This units up Starward Vector’s contemporary tackle the dice-based, RPG gameplay of Citizen Sleeper. Keeping the identical freeform gameplay and richly drawn world, the sequel deepens the formulation via its largest addition, your personal spaceship. This ship doesn’t simply permit you to journey round our new location, the Starward Belt; it additionally means you possibly can tackle contracts: High-risk, high-reward jobs, like scrapping a derelict freighter or repairing a stranded ship. To tackle this work, essential to preserve your ship operating, you’ll must construct a crew, and profit from their talents to maximise every job.
But as with the unique sport, the narrative and characters are on the coronary heart of Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector, so you possibly can anticipate contracts to have sudden twists and tough decisions, for crew to deliver bother to your door, and to search out compelling slice-of-life tales wherever you select to take your ship.
Finally, I wish to share a bit extra about one of many first places you’ll go to, Hexport. This bustling port is among the sport’s hubs: Stations from which you’ll tackle contracts and collect crew, every with its personal distinctive places, characters and tales.
Built on the again of three huge, hexagonal photo voltaic panels that have been left behind when the Solheim company collapsed and fled the system, the station has taken benefit of the large stream of energy from this previous tech. This helps drive each the Hexport Exchange – a commerce corridor full of data-brokers and hackers – and Factory Row, an industrial sector full of small factories turning out ship components and habitat modules. It’s a fantastic place to pay money for scrap contracts or discover crew members, particularly on the Bends bar, a preferred spacer hang-out.
You’ll see much more of Hexport quickly, however for now I wish to thank everybody for taking part in and supporting Citizen Sleeper and its DLC. I’m so completely happy to be returning to this universe for the sequel, and that by no means would have occurred with out everybody who has championed the sport.
If you wish to preserve updated, head over to https://citizensleeper.com/Helion-Dispatches to join our e-newsletter, the place you’ll additionally discover the Helion Dispatches, an ongoing episodic narrative collection that I’m writing which bridges the hole between Citizen Sleeper and Citizen Sleeper 2.
Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector
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ON THE RUN / ON THE EDGE
You are a Sleeper, a corporate-owned android hiding out within the Starward Belt on the fringe of the Helion System. After a determined try to free your self from servitude by rewriting the very code that governs your system, you might be on the run with a malfunctioning physique, a worth in your head and no reminiscence of your previous.
YOUR SHIP / YOUR CREW / YOUR FUTURE
You stole a ship and left the previous behind. Keep it operating, preserve it, even improve it, and possibly it should carry you away from all this. But you possibly can’t run it alone. You’ll want a crew, and whereas the Belt is filled with these searching for work, it is also stuffed with bother. Can you maintain the ship collectively via this disaster? Can you construct a refuge right here, among the many stars?
A SYSTEM IN CRISIS
There is a disaster unfolding within the Helion System. Two huge company entities are preventing a bitter, covert battle, touching the whole lot, even the Starward Belt. Waves of refugees, shattered hulks of warring ships, unusual new applied sciences, all are washing up on the shore of the Belt. Navigate this shifting territory, tackle contracts, receives a commission, and survive to see the following cycle.
ROLL YOUR DICE
Citizen Sleeper makes use of Tabletop RPG impressed techniques to create a singular player-led expertise. Each cycle you’ll roll a set of Dice that you may then spend to finish actions. The larger the die, the higher the prospect of success.
This award-winning and acclaimed system will return in Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector alongside all new techniques and mechanics that may supply extra depth, complexity and problem.
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CITIZEN SLEEPER EXPANDED
With the discharge of Episode PURGE, Citizen Sleeper’s three episode post-launch DLC growth is now full and the sport has much more to supply with an exhilarating late sport storyline that delivers an immersive new narrative arc introducing further characters, lore and places. Players returning to Erlin’s Eye would possibly even discover themselves operating into some acquainted 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 area station that’s dwelling to hundreds of individuals making an attempt to outlive on the perimeters of an interstellar capitalist society.
You are a sleeper, a digitised human consciousness in a man-made physique, owned by an organization that wishes you again. Thrust amongst the unfamiliar and vibrant inhabitants of the Eye, you’ll want to construct friendships, earn your preserve, and navigate the factions of this unusual metropolis, if you happen to hope to outlive to see the following cycle.
ROLL THE DICE. DO THE WORK. GET PAID. SURVIVE.
Inspired by Tabletop Roleplaying video games, Citizen Sleeper makes use of Dice, Clocks and Drives to create a player-led expertise, the place you select your path in a wealthy and responsive world. Each cycle you employ the cube you might be dealt to decide on what to do along with your time. Make or break alliances, uncover truths and escape your hunters. Survive and in the end thrive, one cycle at a time, and typically in opposition to the clock!
TURN UP FOR YOUR FRIENDS
The station performs host to characters from all walks of life, making an attempt to eke out an existence among the many stars. Salvagers, engineers, hackers, bartenders, street-food distributors, every has a historical past which introduced them right here. You select which ones you want to assist, and collectively you’ll form your future.
ACCESS THEIR SECRETS
Eventually, you’ll study to make use of your cube to hack into the station’s cloud to entry a long time of digital information, uncover new areas and unlock secrets and techniques. This is your distinctive energy, and with it you possibly can change your future. Corporate secrets and techniques, rogue AIs and troves of misplaced information await these prepared to dive into the depths of the station’s networks.
YOU WERE MADE TO DIE
Essen-Arp: to them you might be simply property, yet one more asset in a portfolio that stretches throughout the celebrities. You are the product of an abusive system, in a universe the place humanity’s growth is marked by exploitation and extraction. Escape the makers of your decaying physique, and chart your personal path in a richly imagined, deeply related sci-fi world which explores concepts of precarity, personhood and freedom.
