History VideoGame / CitizenSleeper

* CorporateConspiracy: [[spoiler: Episode: PURGE reveals that the Flux virus which decimated Ember Hearth, Steppe and Side was deliberately created and let loose by the [=SenetStat=] Coporation, in order to wipe that part of the galaxy completely clear of all other coporate remnants so [=SenetStat=] can take over unimpeded.]]

For the game's first anniversary, a solo TabletopRPG set on the Erlin's Eye named ''Cycles of the Eye'' was announced. Like ''Citizen Sleeper'', the game casts you as a Sleeper who finds themselves on the station, and uses a mix of dice and tarot card mechanics to let you tell your character's story. Another currently unrevealed game developed by the same creative trio behind ''Citizen Sleeper'' is also confirmed to be in development.

''Citizen Sleeper'' is a Narrative Driven {{Cyberpunk}} {{Adventure| Game}} [[RolePlayingGame RPG]] developed by Jump Over The Age, distributed by Creator/FellowTraveller, and released in May 2022, available for UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch, as well as UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows and UsefulNotes/AppleMacintosh via UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}, Website/GoodOldGames, and Creator/HumbleBundle.

** A main point of the ''FLUX'' storyline. Once you have kicked off the main quest, Eshe will take the Climbing Briar and make her run for the Refugee Flotilla quarantine bay in 12 cycles. And that's all the time you will get to help her and Peake finish their preparations.

* ApocalypseHow: [[spoiler:The refugee flotilla is fleeing the "Flux", a mysterious phenomenon that caused the sudden destruction of computer systems on a planetary scale]].

* MultipleEndings: 9 endings in total with some allowing you to continue playing.

** The final ending, one that confers no achievement, that happens when [[spoiler:you reject the opportunities to leave the station and to dissolve yourself and become one with cyberspace. There is NoEnding. You simply continue to exist.]]

Jump Over The Age announced in June 2022 that they are planning to release a trilogy of "DLC Episodes", which will introduce new storylines and characters to the game, with a focus on expanding on the wider politics and going-ons of the Helion System, the star system in which Erlin's Eye orbits. The first of these episodes, titled ''FLUX'', is set for a July 2022 release. The second episode, ''REFUGE'', released in October 2022, and the final episode, ''PURGE'', released in March 2023.

Jump Over The Age announced in June 2022 that they are planning to release a trilogy of "DLC Episodes", which will introduce new storylines and characters to the game, with a focus on expanding on the wider politics and going-ons of the Helion System, the star system in which Erlin's Eye orbits. The first of these episodes, titled ''FLUX'', is set for a July 2022 release. The two other episodes are currently set to release in October 2022 and early 2023.

* BrokenAesop: The game tries to sell you on the idea that CapitalismIsBad, and presents an alternative to earning money in the form of the [[ChummyCommies Hypha Commune]], where everyone works together for the good of the group. Once you're in, you're set for life; work a shift and you'll get fed, and you can use the rest of your time however you like. Except that, first, it takes a lot of money to ''get'' to the Commune in the first place, you have to support yourself while you're working your way in, and if you can pull all of that off, a shift at the Commune isn't a good use of your time; you'd be better off using that die to work a job and buy food. Even earlier, when the Commune need some equipment repaired, they don't have the money or the expertise to do so, and end up conning a repair bay into doing it without mentioning that they'll be [[ProBonoBarter paying in mushrooms]].

* UnstableEquilibrium: Everything in the game is determined by [[RandomNumberGod dice rolls]], with the number of dice you have available per cycle depending on your condition (five dice at maximum condition, decreasing by one every four cycles). To keep your condition up, you need good dice rolls, but the less of those you get, the harder it gets to keep your condition up, which means even less dice to roll in the first place. It's a vicious cycle that'll keep you on your toes throughout the whole game.

* {{Cyborg}}: [[ArtificialLimbs Mechnical limbs are commonplace]], as are implants that can do anything from enhancing vision to blocking pain receptors. [[BackAlleyDoctor: Sabine's]] main duty is the installation and upkeep of implants [[NeighbourhoodFriendlyGangsters Yagatan]] enforcers.

* SoleSurvivor: Part of your backstory. You were originally just one out of 10 sleepers who were conspiring together about an escape plan from Essen-Arp facility you were kept in. You were the only one who made it out, however.

* {{Transhuman}}: The recruitment propoganda surrounding surrounding the bone suit programme was full of this: [[spoiler: Emphis]] bitterly remarks that he and his entire cohort were sold on the dream of becoming larger than life supermen. [[spoiler: Once the whole progamme was declared unviable and decommissioned, all those who underwent the [[UnusualUserInterface painful and invasive procedures which allowed them to interface with the suits]] were left out in the cold, with most wasting away from arthritis, osteoporosis or crippling addictions to painkillers.]]

* AndroidsArePeopleToo: A central theme. Sleepers, straddling the line between humanity and the robotic, explicitly don't have any "human" rights in the eyes of the people in power. The corporation which made them see them as little more than a product to be bartered and sold, and several people they come across treat them as expendable RidiculouslyHumanRobots. The PlayerCharacter can insist multiple times that they are still are person.

* Cyborg: [[ArtificalLimbs Mechnical limbs are commonplace]], as are implants that can do anything from enhancing vision to blocking pain receptors. [[BackAlleyDoctor: Sabine's]] main duty is the installation and upkeep of implants [[NeighbourhoodFriendlyGangsters Yagatan]] enforcers.

* Transhuman: The recruitment propoganda surrounding surrounding the bone suit programme was full of this: [[spoiler: Emphis]] bitterly remarks that he and his entire cohort were sold on the dream of becoming larger than life supermen. [[spoiler: Once the whole progamme was declared unviable and decommissioned, all those who underwent the [[UnusualUserInterface painful and invasive procedures which allowed them to interface with the suits]] were left out in the cold, with most wasting away from arthritis, osteoporosis or crippling addictions to painkillers.]]

* Cyborg:

* AIIsACrapshoot: The station has multiple sentient AI constructs, some of which have gone mad after decades out of control. One of them hunts you down in {{Cyberspace}} and there are questlines involving assisting others.

* ScavengerWorld: The Eye is an unfinished and rather decrepit station. The economy is built around exporting scrap from the station, food is grown in a largely-feral hydroponics section, and leftover [[ArtificialIntelligence AIs]] from the station's construction infest an equally-feral cyberspace. There's still some functional areas like the Hub, but the station's original purpose is gone, and the people there are just surviving in the ruins.

* AnarchyIsChaos: {{Averted}}; though the Eye has a reputation for being lawless, things are kept pretty stable between [[WeirdTradeUnion Havenage]] and [[FriendlyNeighborhoodGangsters Yagatan]]. When [BountyHunter Ethan]] shows up, what makes him dangerous is that he seems to be the only person on the station with a gun, and he is certainly willing to use it.

** ICE Breaker ''can'' be useful, but only for a few early-game quests that require hacking agents. This mechanic plays no role from mid-game onwards, making the perk a waste of points. However, the Interface skill as a whole remains useful throughout the entire game, so at least the bonus to your dice rolls continues to provide tangible benefits.

* {{Cyberpunk}}: Transhumanism? Check. Evil Corporations exploiting ordinary citizens to an inch of their life? Check. Big squalor slums in a high tech, but decrepit space station? Check.

** Self Repair only restores a single condition bar (equivalent to a single cycle) per piece of scrap, a resource that isn't exactly easy to come by ''and'' has numerous other applications in quests. And even if you have a steady surplus of scrap, it's much more efficient to sell it and use the income to buy stabilizer vials.

* EarlyGameHell: You start out with a half-dead PlayerCharacter who doesn't have ''anything'' to their name - no money, no food, no items to sell. The first cycles are a mad scramble just to survive (fittingly, that's also your first major Drive), and you'll need to think very carefully about what to do when and in which order. It takes quite a while for your situation to stabilize enough to feel like you're not about to drown in heavy sea at any moment.

''Citizen Sleeper'' is a Narrative Driven {{Cyberpunk}} {{Adventure| Game}} [[RolePlayingGame RPG]] developed by Jump Over The Age, distributed by Fellow Traveller, and released in May 2022, available for UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch, as well as UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows and UsefulNotes/AppleMacintosh via UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}, Website/GoodOldGames, and Creator/HumbleBundle.

* TitleDrope: Done by Helene in the ''FLUX'' storyline: