Citizen Sleeper

Citizen Sleeper is a tabletop-inspired narrative RPG set on Erlin's Eye, a ruined space station that is home to thousands of people trying to survive on the edges of an interstellar capitalist society. You play a Sleeper — a digitized human consciousness in an artificial body, owned by a corporation that wants you back — and the question the game asks across its runtime is whether you can build a life out of the wreckage of the system you've escaped.

The gameplay is built around dice, clocks and drives. Each cycle (a day in the station's life), you roll dice and assign them to a vast range of actions across the station. Clocks track progress on both your actions and the actions happening around you. Drives — your character's motivations — replace traditional quest logs and let you pick and choose the stories and activities that matter to you. The system is genuinely TTRPG-flavored and feels like sitting at a table with a thoughtful GM.

The station hosts characters from every walk of life — salvagers, engineers, hackers, bartenders, street-food vendors — each with a history that brought them to the Eye. Their stories intersect with yours through choices you make about who to help, who to trust, and who to align with. Eventually you'll learn to use your dice to hack into the station's cloud, accessing decades of digital data, uncovering new areas, and unlocking corporate secrets, rogue AIs and troves of lost information.

The political framing is sharp. Essen-Arp, your owners, see you as property — one more asset in a portfolio that stretches across the stars. The universe is one where humanity's expansion is marked by exploitation and extraction, and the question of personhood, precarity and freedom sits at the heart of the writing. This Steam edition includes all three post-launch DLC episodes — FLUX, REFUGE and PURGE — which expand the game with additional characters, locations and a new late-game storyline. Jump Over the Age is a one-person studio founded by Gareth Damian Martin, and Citizen Sleeper has earned awards and nominations across the GDC, IGF, Games Award and BAFTA circuits.