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Citizen Sleeper 2 Launch Stream: Watch the Creator Play Before Release

On January 31st, the anticipated sequel Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector is releasing and to celebrate, Jump Over the Age will be streaming the game 2 hours before launch.

Everything You Need to Know About Citizen Sleeper 2

In 2022, Jump Over the Age or Gareth Damian Martin released a tabletop-style narrative RPG titled Citizen Sleeper. Immediately the game saw critical acclaim, the combination of tabletop mechanics in a sci-fi setting with a rich story and interesting characters made waves. Maintaining a Very Positive rating on Steam allowed Citizen Sleeper to reach over a million players just last year, and growing.

Citizen Sleeper has you playing the role of a corporate worker who has digitized their consciousness to be placed inside an artificial body owned by a corporation, sold your own consciousness into indentured servitude, and it has escaped. And now, the corporation wants its property back. Citizen Sleeper is one of the most well-written games I’ve ever played, with both sympathetic and frictional characters. I was always guessing what twists and turns the story would take me on next.

Using a tabletop style system, you’re only able to perform so many actions per cycle and eahc one requires either a skill or dice roll. Modifiers come into play and based on previous decisions or actions you’re able to evade capture, avoid confrontation, and help out friends on the lawless derelict station you find yourself on. Citizen Sleeper is a thrilling look at galactic capitalism and the special type of despair and hope that comes along with it.

Citizen Sleeper 2 looks to take the same approach but broadens the scope of the setting. Instead of focusing on a single space station, and make no mistake it is a big station, you’ll be traveling across what’s known as the “Starward Belt.”  I imagine the stream will cover the important parts of the set up. Finding a crew, getting a ship, and beginning your journey look to be key elements of the early part of Citizen Sleeper 2.

I feel like Citizen Sleeper is the perfect style of game for anyone with the inquisitiveness that it takes to play most games. You naturally want to explore, learn about the world you’re in and the people around you, and while Citizen Sleeper might be a little slower for folks more focused on action games, I feel like even they will find something fascinating about the world here. Perhaps I’m just gushing, but it’s truly an interesting world and fascinating game.

Join the Creator for a Special Livestream

Citizen Sleeper 1 is already available on all consoles. Citizen Sleeper 2 will be available on all consoles come January 31st. Jump Over the Age announced on their bluesky they will be streaming on Friday 2 hours before the game launches. You can find the stream here. The stream will go live on January 31st 3pm GMT / 10AM ET / 7AM PT. I’ll be watching.

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