For me, Citizen Sleeper 2 a marked step back from Citizen Sleeper 1. Mostly in the writing; the characters in 2 are just not compelling. Or they open with screwing you over, keeping secrets, being overtly duplicitous and squirrley or dismissive when caught, and the game wants you to just let that stuff slide? Nah, I told a couple of the potential crew to take a hike. To its credit, the game lets you do that in the cases where I wanted to. But I'd rather have compelling characters that I enjoy being around than the sacks of wet potatoes that the game lobs at you, and the ability to not have them in the game. But the real reason I'm giving this a thumbs down is because the game doesn't let you hard save. It says "trust me, bro" with its autosaves. Some might cry foul because of the Contract sub-game. Me? I just lost my save because of a power surge; after regaining power, my save was gone. I could find the files in my computer, but that didn't seem to be doing any good. And I'm not abou...

It's not a bad game, it's got good atmosphere. On easy it is very easy, and on normal you get yourself into soft lock situations where you have no "action points" left but can't abort contracts, so you are essentially stuck waiting for death. Can't reload old saves, either. There is a lot of Marxist claptrap, and the characters often read like insufferable post-modernist drama kids whose greatest struggle is people not "believing" in them.

TL;DR: for everyone who enjoyed Citizen Sleeper 1: You will enjoy this one as well. Buy the game, no need to read further. Do you need to play the first game before you play this one?: No. But you will run into bits and pieces reminding you of the first game. This game will pull you into a roughly 12h long story with great storytelling and characters which fit this world perfectly. But here lies the first "problem". If you prefer more hours for your money, this game will not provide you with much more than these 12h. Maybe more, if you try to go for 100% and restart the story with a different build. Pros: - The story is super intriguing and well written - The characters are generally great - The sound design and music are top. It sets the tone and atmosphere so well, it has to be mentioned - You do not feel rushed, despite some mechanics which give you time restraints Cons: - The characters lack a bit of background. Providing more info about them, their history, while getting to kn...

The new "broken dice" mechanics totally ruins the game, when you get 1 o 2 dice left there's no point in playing since it's impossible to go forward with quests but you don't just die, so you keep on like a zombie failing everything for hours until you die. It's just bad. Traveling is kind of nice (and I get it's not free and you have to work for fuel and supplies) but contracts are a total waste of time and resources, too risky for their rewards and they can mess your game unrecoverably. I would say that can be fixed by playing the safe mode (which is not the intended difficulty) or re-playing hours of the same story (which is dumb) so I think this is mostly bad design. Other than that the story was nice.

If you liked the original, Citizen Sleeper 2 is a classic sequel: everything's been expanded, including the delight in exploring deep space.

Pretty decent, thought I think I liked the first one quite a bit more. It's a familiar style. The writing is still good. Music perhaps less memorable. I think the original had a sense of mystery and worldbuilding. Sequel feels like more of a structured, formulaic run through a set of compartmentalised locations with a clear goal in sight. It's still good, and if you enjoyed the original, it'll probably work for you too.

If you liked Citizen Sleeper, you like this too. My only complaint is that it's not longer <3

Good games are remembered for writing over all else. Citizen sleeper has excellent writing, it's very much a character driven story. But the music, sound design and simple way it pressures you into action and a sense of urgency is delightful and strongly elevates the experience. If you're a fan of space fiction and a well crafted universe where you could fully believe you and the characters within, look no further. And if you haven't, play the first one. It's just as good.

More of a visual novel with gameplay elements, but I enjoyed the story so it accomplished what it set out to do. The "contracts" sections provide a little more actual gameplay where you can actually succeed or fail small but important tasks on a limited timeline. This is in comparison to the first game where once you got past the first few cycles you could effectively grind out the rest of the game with no real time limit. There is a single really bad mechanic in the game; your dice can "break" after taking a bit of damage related to stress. You can repair completely broken dice pretty easily, but partially broken dice can't be repaired. To get around this, you have to purposefully inflict stress on yourself while safely on the station and let the RNG break your dice down for you so you can turn around and repair them, which is kind of ridiculous. It's irritating, but not bad enough to ruin the game completely.

I have no words.