Citizen Sleeper is a fairly linear narrative adventure that feels like a sprawling RPG. The developers somehow make you feel like anything is possible in the Eye as you take on odd jobs and try to eke out another day by the skin of your teeth. The quality of writing here is superb, I just wanted more of it.

This is the true best Cyberpunk RPG on the market, and it shouldn't be missed. All I ask for is a proper fail state to keep you stressed about losing, as Citizen Sleeper is content to let you fuck around and make terrible choices with little consequence, which makes it a fairly chill game. This game captures the same feeling as a great book you can't put down with a tight addictive loop, and I highly recommend it.

i got this game out of the game pass "which game will you play" die and im so glad i did. im not sure what i expected. i remember seeing it ages ago be it when i originally got game pass over a year ago, or from one of the many awards it has garnered, and thought "sure! i'll give it a shot". it's been a good long while since i've played a text-heavy narrative game like this, but it was so intuitive and the story was so well written that it didnt ever make me feel like there was something i couldnt do. it's a surprisingly... addicting? game to play, continuing the story, learning more about the characters, and everything keeps pulling you in saying "sure one more cycle". my only complaint is that at times I wasn't sure what story to follow, as I only had so many dice and so much energy and so many cycles until the next story event, but that in part adds to how engaging it is. that and sometimes moving around the eye felt slow, but again, it adds to the feeling that you are living life on this giant space colony, and moving around pursuing different storylines and discovering more of the world. i'd say give it a shot! especially since it's on gamepass and i finished it in only a couple days. big big big recommend, it's like reading a very good choose-your-own-adventure book

The most common sentiment I see about this game is that it just came out of nowhere and completely gripped the reviewer for its entire playtime. That was basically also my experience. Citizen Sleeper is an excellent game, and well worth its price. Even more worth it if you're getting it for free off Game Pass.

Like Disco Elysium almost all of Citizen Sleepers' gameplay is in the form of reading, the RPG elements start off light and only become less present as the game goes on. But the writing is for the most part excellent, with a strong and interestingly built world. I do wish more was done with the game's RPG elements, but if you're playing this game then you're here for the story.

A few small flaws keep me from giving this game a perfect 5 - I wish some of the endings had been better telegraphed, and I wish fewer events had been locked to binary either/or choices. I also had a couple minor bugs, nothing game breaking, but something I didn't really expect in a game with this few moving parts. But these are very minor complaints about a game that I overall loved and would strongly recommend.