Citizen Sleeper
Windows version
Great sci-fi setting
The Good
The game has a nice ambient soundtrack, and a great setting to explore. The game mechanics are easy to get into and for most of the game feel compelling enough to keep going.
Although light on RPG stats, the choices you make do give the sense of having full control over your character and your destiny within the game. With lots of interesting choices to make.
The Bad
Sometimes the game feels a bit like a Ubisoft open world game's worldmap. But the game is just the map. There's a ton of actions to do, but not everything is all that engaging.
The game tends to fizzle out a bit. Where in the middle of the game there's tons of different story threads running in parallel and it's hard to choose what to do. Once one or more of the threads come to their conclusion (and you might get a credits sequence) there's still a lot to do, but the game just gets less and less dense with choices over time. At some point I just stopped playing, because it just wasn't so engaging anymore. But I had seen two endings at this point, and almost reached the conclusion of the third, and played one of the three content additions.
The Bottom Line
I really enjoyed the game. It's sometimes perhaps a bit too verbose, and in retrospect I probably should just have stopped playing after reaching an ending, to end on a high note. But it's cool to explore the space station and to have an impact on the world.
by vedder (75617) on January 13, 2025