Citizen Sleeper

Citizen Sleeper is a tabletop-inspired narrative RPG set on Erlin’s Eye, a ruined space station where thousands of people struggle to survive on the edge of an interstellar capitalist society. You play a sleeper: a digitised human consciousness in an artificial body, owned by the corporation Essen-Arp, which wants you back. To survive, you earn a living, form friendships and navigate the station’s factions while trying to escape your hunters and see the next cycle.

Life on Erlin’s Eye

The station is home to salvagers, engineers, hackers, bartenders and street-food vendors, each with a history that brought them there. You choose whom to help, and your choices shape their lives and the station’s future. The story explores precarity, personhood and freedom in a universe where humanity’s expansion is marked by exploitation and extraction.

Dice, clocks and drives

Each cycle, you roll the dice you are dealt and assign them to actions around the station. Clocks track your progress and the actions of others, from becoming a local at the Overlook Bar to protecting a friend from Yatagan enforcers. Rather than following quests, you pursue drives, choosing which stories and activities matter to you.

Your choices shape five skills: Engineer, Interface, Endure, Intuit and Engage. Developing them unlocks perks and bonuses that reflect how you choose to live. You can also use your dice to hack into the station’s cloud, access decades of digital data, uncover new areas and secrets, and discover corporate secrets, rogue AIs and lost data.

Additional episodes

The game includes the three post-launch DLC episodes FLUX, REFUGE and PURGE. They add characters and locations to Erlin’s Eye and expand the story with a late-game storyline.