The perfect companion piece to Disco Elysium and not just because of their stylistic similarities. Where ZA/UM's unapologetically cerebral point-and-click RPG challenges the player by constructing an identity around their successes and failures, Citizen Sleeper challenges the nature of the player's identity - their avatar, their Sleeper, a lens through which to view the interactions on a starport in decline. Both games have rich world-building, a sense of imminent collapse, but through it all, the human spirit - our drive - pushes on, past what we once thought impossible, creating something remarkably poignant yet altogether unfamiliar. In short, the political text-based dice roll games made me cry. A humbling experience.

Reviewed on Jun 01, 2022


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