

The Sleeper is meant to serve a limited time before completely breaking down and fading into obscurity. The titular Sleeper is a constantly deteriorating artificial shell into which an individual implants their conscience. Launched on PC, Switch, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X|S, Citizen Sleeper sends players to a distant, abandoned society on the edge of the universe. I’ve played and mostly enjoyed TTRPGs like Call of Cthulhu, Vampire: The Masquerade, and, of course, Dungeons & Dragons, and I feel my experiences with them all helped me better appreciate Jump Over the Age’s Citizen Sleeper.

I played it often, never actually getting past the bothersome troll.īut that game started my long and oft comically volatile relationship with text-based and tabletop RPGs. It was a simple adventure where the wrong text input meant meeting an untimely demise. I can’t recall the game’s name, but I remember popping in a floppy disc into an all-tan tower and venturing into some fantasy land where a rather talkative troll impeded my journey to becoming a great hero.

It feels like eons ago that I got my first taste of TTRPGs.
