Citizen Sleeper revolves around playing as a Sleeper, those who gave their lives to work for corporations by becoming synthetic copies of their original selves. You decided to escape from those you worked for and need to pick yourself up from the bottom, trying to survive and build a new life as you hide out on a rundown but lively space station called Erlin’s Eye. All the while you’re constantly being tracked and your body is rapidly deteriorating

The gameplay is part narrative RPG akin to Disco Elysium (where actions are determined by dice rolls) and part resource management. With each limited cycle, much of the game is spent scrambling to find ways to make money to survive, exploring the various parts of the ship and meeting new people with their own drives to pursue. While also learning more about the station and the world itself through the game’s descriptive dialogue

Eventually it becomes much more manageable as you upgrade your character and gather various rewards from those you meet with regularly. Though you’ll start to exhaust most of what the game has to offer and still need to wait for events to trigger or items to appear after multiple cycles, which did get a little tedious. By the end though, Erlin’s Eye actually started to feel like home for the small amount of time you’ll spend on it