CWs for Citizen Sleeper: body horror, gun violence, graphic descriptions of wounds

Citizen Sleeper is a tender stab at post-humanist sci-fi that has a difficult time figuring out what I thinks of the individual in the tides of society. The economy of social sim and CRPG resources produces exciting and stressful conditions of a day laborer on the lamb, but the writing and narrative expression choices think extremely contradictory individualist things. I adore the approach to prose, the illustration, and the biggest swings on most of the quest, but it's just real fucking weird when everything leads to strange video game final boss scenarios when you're otherwise supposed to be a decaying husk looking for connection and purpose.

The spread of choices with the cast becomes narrow and slight as each quest line comes to a close and in general the game as a system falls apart once you have a bit of money to move around. I think this is a beautiful game that land tone, scale, and affection with an really impressive economy even if it has a confused and sometimes even contradictory thesis.

Reviewed on Oct 29, 2022


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