This game is currently in the Humble Choice for March 2024, and this is part of my coverage of the bundle. If you are interested in the game and it's before April 2nd, 2024, consider picking up the game as part of the current monthly bundle.
A visual novel with resource management.
Citizen Sleeper has good writing and interesting ideas. The writing almost reminds me of Disco Elysium, but I feel like that comparison is a little far. Still, the situations have a real weight on them, it feels like the odds are stacked against the player and the characters are interesting. The gameplay revolves around slotting dice into different actions, to determine the odds of your success. Better dice have better odds, and that influences the actions you can take in a day.
However, having played this in Game Pass, I can tell you after the first hour or so, the game starts to resolve some of the stressful situations, and make the player's lives easier. It feels like every big bad danger seems to get resolved just as it gets intense, and while it feels like your decisions are stressful early on by the end of the game, you’ve amassed so much power that it’s just waiting for time, or just plunking away at a challenge to pass the time. The story loses all its intensity.
Pick this up if you like a good story. The narrative here starts strong and the resolution to the story is well told. The only problem is almost all the highest and most dangerous stakes in the story have been resolved about halfway through the story, and there’s no randomness so a second playthrough means all the same reveals will happen allowing you to manipulate the playthrough to your liking.
If you enjoyed this review or want to know what I think of other games in the bundle, check out the full review on or subscribe to my Youtube channel: https://youtu.be/PX2c6Gm5Jbg
A visual novel with resource management.
Citizen Sleeper has good writing and interesting ideas. The writing almost reminds me of Disco Elysium, but I feel like that comparison is a little far. Still, the situations have a real weight on them, it feels like the odds are stacked against the player and the characters are interesting. The gameplay revolves around slotting dice into different actions, to determine the odds of your success. Better dice have better odds, and that influences the actions you can take in a day.
However, having played this in Game Pass, I can tell you after the first hour or so, the game starts to resolve some of the stressful situations, and make the player's lives easier. It feels like every big bad danger seems to get resolved just as it gets intense, and while it feels like your decisions are stressful early on by the end of the game, you’ve amassed so much power that it’s just waiting for time, or just plunking away at a challenge to pass the time. The story loses all its intensity.
Pick this up if you like a good story. The narrative here starts strong and the resolution to the story is well told. The only problem is almost all the highest and most dangerous stakes in the story have been resolved about halfway through the story, and there’s no randomness so a second playthrough means all the same reveals will happen allowing you to manipulate the playthrough to your liking.
If you enjoyed this review or want to know what I think of other games in the bundle, check out the full review on or subscribe to my Youtube channel: https://youtu.be/PX2c6Gm5Jbg