Whereas it was formally revealed for PC and Xbox round a 12 months in the past, developer Leap Over the Age and writer Fellow Traveller popped up at this weekend’s PC Gaming Present to announce that Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector will additionally launch on the Change. What’s extra, it has been given a launch window of early 2025.
If the title hasn’t given it away already, this can be a follow-up to 2022’s wonderful tabletop-inspired RPG Citizen Sleeper. Like its predecessor, Starward Vector will see you enjoying as an android (Sleeper) on the run from the corporate that made you. You will must commandeer a ship, construct up a crew and perform as many duties as doable earlier than your decaying physique halts your progress. A pleasant, stress-free expertise, then…
The brand-new trailer provides us our first take a look at the Citizen Sleeper 2 gameplay, the place our selections will as soon as once more come all the way down to the roll of a die. It additionally showcases the brand new Starward Belt setting, which appears large in comparison with its predecessor’s single-station atmosphere.
Yow will discover out a bit extra concerning the sport’s options and get a take a look at some screenshots under.
REBOOT / REBUILD / REPAIR
Nothing within the Belt ever runs easy, together with the bogus physique of a Sleeper. Citizen Sleeper’s revolutionary cube system returns, revised for the sequel. Gamers should handle their stress or danger taking injury to their cube. They’ll additionally must take care of glitches as they accrue of their system.
DO THE JOB, GET PAID
Contracts supply a brand new sort of targeted, tactical gameplay to the Citizen Sleeper expertise. Gamers might want to put together fastidiously and select the suitable method for these multi-cycle high-risk/high-reward jobs – however they’ll additionally must react and adapt to each the roll of the cube and the twists and turns of every activity.
PUSH YOUR LUCK
Every character class now has a novel “Push” skill, which can assist gamers flip the tide of a tough job or ship them right into a harmful spiral relying on how and after they select to make use of it. Push abilities are upgradable and customizable, and embrace talents like cube rerolls or single die augments. With the addition of Push, every class in Citizen Sleeper 2 will supply totally different tactical prospects.
NAVIGATE THE BELT
The Starward Belt gives an even bigger, extra assorted world than the unique sport. As a substitute of dwelling on a single station, gamers will chart a course from hub to hub with full freedom, taking over jobs and setting targets as they see match. A dwelling world, the Belt rewards curiosity and care, but it surely’s as much as gamers to determine which areas and tales deserve their time and assets.
CHOOSE YOUR FUTURE
Participant selection is a large a part of the Citizen Sleeper expertise, and the sequel deepens this with new talent checks that permit gamers to specific their class and character in scenes, in addition to branching storylines that can ask them to make exhausting selections. The way forward for your character is as much as you!
We gave the primary Citizen Sleeper a ‘Nice’ 8/10 once we reviewed it again in 2022, so we’re happy to see that its sequel shall be making the leap over to Change early subsequent 12 months. We’ll be protecting an eye fixed out for a extra exact launch date over the approaching months.