Hi there once more, I’m Gareth Damian Martin, the (largely) solo developer behind the indie Recreation Cross hit Citizen Sleeper. Again in July I used to be right here on Xbox Wire to talk about Flux, our first episodic replace for the sport, and I’m again right now for Refuge, the second episode in our three-episode run of free DLC!
Refuge picks up the place Flux left off, deep inside a refugee disaster that threatens the area station Erlin’s Eye. However at first of this replace a surprising occasion shifts the stability of energy on the Eye, and forces gamers, and the characters they’ve allied with, to contemplate their future on the station.
Whereas Flux was a race towards time crammed with exhausting decisions and excessive stress actions, Refuge is a slower, extra explorative episode. In it, you achieve entry to the refugee flotilla and meet characters from the moons of a gasoline big named Ember, positioned elsewhere within the Helion photo voltaic system. This implies Refuge is a chance for me to inform you extra concerning the wider universe of Citizen Sleeper, and have interaction in that traditional RPG exercise of world-building.
And but, like all the things with Citizen Sleeper, I love to do issues a little bit in another way. Whereas I’ve been identified to fortunately spend many hours studying codex and lore entries for the likes of Mass Impact and Future 2, as a developer I typically favor to let my characters drive my worldbuilding. In Refuge which means you’ll come to grasp the broader context of the Helion system by way of the refugees you meet and the ships they journey on.
Like many facets of Citizen Sleeper, (from its cube to its concentrate on participant alternative) this strategy is impressed by TTRPGs (or tabletop roleplaying video games for the uninitiated). Recreation Grasp won’t ever merely dump a ton of lore on a participant in your typical marketing campaign or session, so as a substitute they need to use the first device at their disposal, characters and environmental description, to inform the participant concerning the world.
In Refuge this interprets to me bringing the Helion system to the Eye by way of the voices and personalities of three characters, the reluctant chief Sol, the steely engineer Petr and the mysterious Aki. I actually hope you’ll take pleasure in assembly these three and discovering out extra about them and the locations they got here from on this episode. I’ve labored exhausting to make them compelling home windows into their worlds in addition to distinct personalities, and as at all times our artist, Guillaume Singelin, has skillfully sketched them into existence.
And that is just the start, as Citizen Sleeper is a recreation set in a world that I’m nonetheless constructing, every day. Refuge is the subsequent step within the story, however in early 2023 you possibly can stay up for the ultimate episode on this sequence, one that may have far-reaching penalties for the whole photo voltaic system and all who stay inside it.
And after that? Properly, that might be giving a little bit an excessive amount of away. GM is aware of how you can preserve secrets and techniques in any case. However let’s simply say that the world of Citizen Sleeper will proceed to develop so long as I’ve characters to speak about it, new locations to ship you to and, in fact, gamers such as you to discover all of it.
I hope you benefit from the latest episode, and for those who do then head to twitter and let [email protected] or the sport account @CitizenSleeper know what you suppose. I’ll see you once more for the grand finale in 2023, however till then, good luck in Refuge and thanks to everybody for supporting and taking part in Citizen Sleeper this 12 months!
Citizen Sleeper
Fellow Traveller
$19.99
$15.99
PC Recreation Cross
Xbox Recreation Cross
ROLEPLAYING IN THE RUINS OF INTERPLANETARY CAPITALISM
From the developer of In Different Waters, and that includes the gorgeous character artwork of Guillaume Singelin, Citizen Sleeper is a story RPG set on Erlin’s Eye, a ruined area station that’s dwelling to hundreds of individuals attempting to outlive on the sides of an interstellar capitalist society.
You’re a sleeper, a digitised human consciousness in a man-made physique, owned by a company that desires you again. Thrust amongst the unfamiliar and vibrant inhabitants of the Eye, you’ll want to construct friendships, earn your preserve, and navigate the factions of this unusual metropolis, for those who hope to outlive to see the subsequent cycle.
LIFE ON ERLIN’S EYE
An deserted station on the sting of a system in disaster. Now it’s held collectively by anarchic alliances, ramshackle factions and a shared want to be free from company management.
DO THE WORK. GET PAID. SURVIVE.
Every cycle you select what to do together with your time. Make or break alliances, uncover truths and escape your hunters. Survive and finally thrive, one cycle at a time.
TURN UP FOR FRIENDS
The Eye performs host to characters from all walks of life. Salvagers, engineers, hackers and extra – every has a historical past. You select who to assist, and collectively form your future.
ACCESS THEIR SECRETS
Hack the station’s cloud to entry information, new areas and secrets and techniques. That is your energy, and it could actually change your future. Company secrets and techniques, rogue AIs and troves of misplaced information await.
YOU WERE MADE TO DIE
Essen-Arp: to them you might be simply one other asset of their nearly infinite portfolio. Escape your decaying physique’s makers, and chart your personal path in a richly imagined sci-fi world.
INSPIRED BY TABLETOP ROLEPLAYING GAMES
Citizen Sleeper makes use of cube, clocks and drives to create a player-led expertise, the place you select your path in a wealthy and responsive world.
CITIZEN SLEEPER EPISODES
This free post-launch episodic content material introduces new characters and places in an expanded storyline. True to Citizen Sleeper’s TTRPG roots, these three episodes will provide an expansive marketing campaign module that tells the longest and most complicated story to be featured within the recreation thus far.
Within the first episode, FLUX, the primary ships from a refugee flotilla arrive at Erlin’s Eye in response to pressures within the Helion system. Now, in REFUGE, a wierd occasion sends ripples by way of the communities of the Eye. You’ll enter the flotilla to attempt to perceive this new risk, and assist the refugees stabilise their neighborhood.
The story of the flotilla, the FLUX occasion and your Sleeper will conclude within the third episode, arriving early 2023.