Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector - narrative RPG sequel where you play an escaped android - coming January 31st

[Abu Antar]

https://citizensleeper.com





A sequel was announced at the PC Games Show.

 

[Infinitron]

The first game was very popular with gamejournos, I guess it did well enough.

 

[Zombra]

First game is excellent (and 40% off right now), but is not for most Codexers, who will be enraged there are no rocket launchers and you don't get to look at every character's genitals.

Very excited about a sequel. I like how the trailer implies that it takes place traveling through space instead of on one big station.

 

[fantadomat]

the first one is a decent fun

 

[Christoffer Bodegård]

Will be exciting to see where they take it for a direct sequel. Considering the short turnover I'm guessing it'll use the same system and narrative mechanics, but in a fresh context.

 

[Van-d-all]

The first game is fairly good. Solid setting, decent writing, intriguing characters. But at the same time, mechanically it's such a minimalist game, virtually a counter manager, and an easy one at that. Hardly a problem finishing every questline in time, not particularly good for a management game IMO. That said, the setting itself was interesting enough I'd gladly see it expanded.

 

[tindrli]

Never heard about it. Will try

 

[Leinhart]

I wish the android´s name was Data.

 

[Infinitron]

 

[Infinitron]

https://jumpovertheage.substack.com/p/what-to-expect-in-2024

The Path to Citizen Sleeper 2
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I know you’ve all been waiting for more info on the sequel, and while I can’t give you that today, I can promise that by the end of this year you will be very familiar with what the sequel plans to offer. There’s around a year left of development, and already the sequel is looking bigger and more varied than the original.

I’m really proud of what we’ve been able to do, and I ask you to be patient for a little while longer, as we prepare for our big reveal, and a few small teases between now and then too…

 

[Infinitron]

 

[Lord_Potato]

it looks exactly like the previous game.

 

[lightbane]

Not a rpg, excessive woke stuff such as the only male blonde of the game being a dumb AND cowardly bad guy with no redeeming qualities, excessive use of "they" pronounm for men and women (and then there's that scene where TWO "they" persons are around, confusing as hell), no real C&C other than passing or failing a quest, annoying time-limit mechanics that can be gamed early on, etc. Writing was good at least, but it was quite depressing even though the tone of the game pretends to be uplifting, when it cannot really be so when the MC lives with literal borrowed time.

 

[Infinitron]

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2442460/view/4679893541746213271

Citizen Sleeper 2 Demo Goes Live October 14 for a LIMITED TIME
Wishlist today to be notified immediately when the demo releases!

Big news, Sleeper! A limited-time demo for Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector has just been announced!
It will ONLY be available during Steam Next Fest (14-21 October)!

During Steam Next Fest, you'll be able to explore Starward Vector's first location. Visit the hostile Hexport, and meet locals both friendly and untrustworthy. Your goal is to repair your ship and escape before you are caught - but will you be able to do so in time?

So make sure to wishlist Citizen Sleeper 2 right now if you haven't already, and you'll be notified the moment the Hexport demo is live. Get ready to assemble your crew and complete your first two contracts!

 

[Lord_Potato]

About time they showed some gameplay. They are releasing in early 2025, right?

 

[Oropay]

Demo is up



Protip: seems like you get your dice refunded once you embark on a contract

 

[Infinitron]

Coming January 31st:



https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2442460/view/4447963238493062346

Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector heads into space on January 31
Experience the Starward Belt with the limited-time Hexport demo on Steam

Are you ready to wake up, Sleeper? The dice-driven RPG Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector will be available on Steam on January 31, 2025!

Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector is the sequel to the award-winning Citizen Sleeper. We recently celebrated the 1,000,000 players () who took their Sleeper into the degrading space station Erlin’s Eye and made a living at the edge of interstellar society.

If you liked Citizen Sleeper, Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector dives deeper into its roleplaying roots with the dice of the original game taking on an even more important role. As an escaped Sleeper with a malfunctioning body, you commandeer a ship, find a crew, and take on contracts as you explore the Starward Belt. Choose between stretching for greater rewards or potentially taking on stress that damages your dice - your Sleeper’s only true means of survival - and accrues glitches in your system.

How will you handle the stress? Will you damage your only chance for survival in an effort to push your luck?

But that's not all! By popular demand, the limited-time Hexport demo returns to Steam from TODAY until December 8!

For more information on the dice RPG Citizen Sleeper: Starward Vector, join the Jump Over the Age Substack, follow Gareth Daimian Martin on Twitter/X and Bluesky, and Fellow Traveller on Twitter/X, Bluesky, TikTok, Instagram, Threads, or join the official Fellow Traveller Discord.

 

[v1c70r14]

I was bored.

Cyber Dreams of Leftism Qua Capital

Nothing situates the left arm of capital quite as clearly as the digital dreams it produces for the elitist cliques that make up not just the userbase of pedophile networks like BlueSky, or internet concentration camps like ResetEra, but also the thirdworldists who usually complains about Western degeneracy and the mental illness of any form of communist ideology more recent than Lenin. All of them far removed from any laborer or worker, they collectively fantasize about unshackled tech-capital.

From the depths of Deleuzesian fever visions of escaping the spirations of Fascism, which have been the bread and butter of civilized human existence since the dawn of time, comes attempts at hyperstition, the notion that capitalism will conquer the stars and that Elon Musk’s project will be ultimately successful, even if the millenarian Marxist prophecy of some further collapse and fall must at the same time take place even as the apotheosis of galactic capitalism is a fundamental part of the fiction and fantasy being sold in Citizen Sleeper. In the Gramski mode there is a hope that if it is culturally propagated enough this will make it happen and attain reality.

For just £129.99 you too can get the boutique art book and an RPG splat book, just like any communist the developers are good bourgeoisie entrepreneurs, peddling luxury items at insane markup to an audience of the rich alone, looking down at the tastes of the larger working class. It’s not just the pricing that is restrictive and self-selecting for this audience though, it's the very material itself. Rather than diving into the bog standard critiques of commoditization of culture and critique, or the ouroboros of capitalism producing the empty semiotic noise of its own supposed counter-culture, it’s much more interesting to look behind the curtain at the consumers of this premium goyslop with a Disco Elysium flair.

Writing at the present the contrast of the response between the traditional fantasy with these ideological conventions inserted into Veilguard, and not just Citizen Sleeper 1/2 but also the triple-A disaster that was Cyberpunk 2077 is so concrete you can touch it. Perhaps the most misunderstood part of leftism was that the science fictions they produced, like the very genre of cyberpunk, was never a genuine critique or satire of capital but rather the desire of the creatives.

Felipepepe, Brazilmonkey BlueSky profile and compiler of one of the least reliable and factual books about CRPGs, wrote about this when Cyberpunk 2077 was in the news in some now lost tweet or blogpost. Leftists never even mildly disliked the prospect of exchanging their bodies for artificial parts with corporate enslavement or planned obsolescence built in. The Judge Dredd megacity filled with addicts, criminals, and other lumpenproles, high-rises overlooking ghettos filled with brown mystery meat consumers and mountains of garbage and irradiated landfills is rather the ideal destination of the progressive, with galactic conquest of mass production, automatization and transhumanism being the endgame. This is why Felipepepe was so angry about Japan being too Japanese still and not another Brazil, every city should be some detached mass of foreigners, even the few natives remaining should be deterritorializationized and alienated from their own homeland. In order to be the cool cyberpunk with pink hair and a non-binary quasi-African open-relationship partner fighting "the man" (Who in this alternative universe isn't jewish for some reason) you first have to let capitalism run its course. Leftism is only the unrestricted hunger for the decadence of infinite surplus after the fact.

Whereas Veilguard isn’t defended by many for transposing this image into the fantasy genre, even those usually critical of this kind of thing are vibing with the all the plateaus and fanged noumenas of both Polish diversity Deus Ex done Ubisoft as well as boutique Western visual novels. Marxism, in any form, is begging for the tech-capital to be unleashed and every communist is a Landian transsexual waiting to come out. Beyond the protests from Bulgarians or Romanians of Western excess and degeneracy lies a deep approval of the judeo-capitalist project, walking in lockstep with core ideological suppositions and expectations. The tin-can floating in space containing brown they/thems is not a vision restricted to obdurate Californians alone. The fundamental realization is that the anti requires the thing itself to exist and is for this reason married to it.

Fascism is anathema to this binary system of push and pull because it threatens to rob the adherents of their artificial consciousness being granted a total will-to-desire in a run down slum of Night City of the future, or an abandoned Elon Musk space station in this case, or a server farm in either. Fascism wages war on it even from beyond the grave of ideology, a ghostly apparition of Hitler and Mussolini wielding the fiery sword of God to protect the heavens and paradise from the rotten cancer of capital-marxism, cutting through schizophrenic gray orgasm slime to supplant it with genuine life and vitality. The arboreal hierarchy remains strong and sound despite every attempt to diminish it, untouched by unworthy clawing hands. May these dreams stay the deranged digital dreams they remain as, the cocaine of e-progressives.

 

[Infinitron]

https://www.eurogamer.net/citizen-sleeper-2-will-be-the-last-citizen-sleeper-video-game

Citizen Sleeper 2 will be the last Citizen Sleeper video game​

But the series may live on elsewhere.

Citizen Sleeper creator Gareth Damian Martin has said their warm-hearted series of sci-fi video games will end with Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector, which releases 31st January. However, Citizen Sleeper as a series of games won't necessarily end there.

The intention, as Damian Martin laid it out to me in a recent interview, is to create a full tabletop role-playing version of the game, and thereby handover future adventures in the series to the TTRPG space that has so inspired it.

Responding to whether that would be it for Citizen Sleeper games after the sequel, Damian Martin replied: "I think it is for video games. I'll leave myself a backdoor somewhere that I can climb through and dig it out the grave again... But no. I think especially the ending - and I hope people feel this when they reach the ending - I really felt like, okay, this is me saying the final word on it. I really like where I'm leaving it. I'm really happy with that.

"But Citizen Sleeper has meant a lot to a lot of people and so I'm not about to leave that behind," they added. "The next big project for me will be to work on a Citizen Sleeper tabletop game in full, but I need to find the right collaborator and I need to work that out, and I need to do that alongside other stuff. So that's something that will be a more long-term project."

Martin has collaborated on tabletop projects before. Their game In Other Waters was adapted for tabletop via a collaboration with Lone Archivist, and Citizen Sleeper was adapted into a solo, tarot-based tabletop game with Alfred Valley's help, so there's a strong precedent there.

The video game Damian Martin will make next is actually the game they were pitching to their publisher Fellow Traveller before development on Citizen Sleeper 2 began. It was only the runaway success of Citizen Sleeper 1 - now at one million players and counting - that derailed those plans, turning Martin's head towards add-on content and, eventually, a sequel.

"I was actually already pitching my next game, which was not Citizen Sleeper 2, to my publisher," they said. "That's actually going to be the next game."

Citizen Sleeper 2 arrives to much anticipation on 31st January. Demos have already given us a glimpse of a game that's quite different from Citizen Sleeper 1, with a much stronger sense of tension in it and more developed, and distinct, role-playing systems. The changes work brilliantly; this could be special.

The development cycle, however, hasn't been easy. Personal challenges, as well as the pressure of living up to expectations, have made life difficult, as I discovered speaking with Damian Martin. Success, as much as we court it, can be hard to deal with.

Look out for my full Citizen Sleeper interview soon.

 

[KeAShizuku]

I am looking forward to this one. I discovered the first one on a 4chan thread were someone called the game pretentious- which immediately piqued my curiosity.