Citizen Sleeper Review (Nintendo Switch OLED)

by Jim Smale · January 6, 2023

For our Citizen Sleeper Review, where we live the life of an escaped worker, washed up on a lawless station at the edge of an interstellar society. Inspired by the flexibility and freedom of TTRPGs, explore the station, choose your friends, escape your past and change your future.

Citizen Sleeper Review Pros:

Decent graphics.
1.3GB download size.
3 save slots.
Three characters – Machinist, Operator, and Extractor. Each has unique skills.
Visual Novel style gameplay.
The game is split into cycles, during a cycle, you can explore, use shops, do missions, and talk with characters.
Multiple-choice encounters are the name of the game.
Action dice are rolled every cycle and these dictate what actions you can do.
Condition is the name of your overall health with the energy your Shields in a way. Eat to keep your Shields up but starving will cause your condition (health) to deplete.
Actions will have a success percentage attached to each choice.
Action rewards can be clock advancement, energy, or items.
Assign action dice to actions.
All actions will be a type, risk level, and any skill modifiers shown.
Clocks are important and plentiful as they are attached to certain situations or activities. When full it can be a good or bad thing.
Drives are used to guide you through conversations and yellow-marked ones are tied to your main goal.
Many endings are to be discovered.
A lot of replay value.
Play how you want.
Your condition at the start of a cycle dictates how many action dice you have.
The camera can be moved and rotated.
Colorful and memorable characters.
Very atmospheric.
Clear map markers and pop-up text.
Gets very engrossing and addictive.
Text settings – text size (Large/default), and text scroll speed (slow/default/fast).
Tells you when it was last autosaved.
Perfect fit for the Nintendo Switch.
Main and optional side quests.
Full quest and tracking management.
Cyro is the cryptocurrency of the game and is used for buying and bribing.
An empty container is your home and where you go to end the current cycle.
Data actions allow you to extract data from the network of the Eye.
Anything that needs a timer to show the progress of the activity is shown clearly on the map markers.
You just lose hours at a time.
Very simple controls.
Buy and sell items/cargo/materials.
Such a sprawling and deep world.
Complete a Drive (mission line) and get an upgrade point to put into your character tree.
There is always something to do.
Fast loading times once you are in the game.