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Citizen Sleeper

Jump Over The Age

Spend each die on the life—and the people—you are trying to keep.

The Citizen Sleeper title crosses a coral-pink orbital city illustration with a lone suited figure and small spacecraft.
Citizen Sleeper © Jump Over The Age; character art by Guillaume Singelin; published by Fellow Traveller. Images from the official press kit. · Official media source ↗

THE DESIGN LENS

What makes this worth a closer look.

The official description ties each cycle to a finite set of action dice, while Clocks expose progress and outside pressures and Drives let the player choose which stories matter. Work, survival, investigation and friendship therefore compete for the same scarce attention, turning the game's themes of precarity and personhood into the structure of an ordinary day.

Before you make it your next game.

Choose it when reading, allocation and relationships are the reward; its tension comes from cycles and choices rather than constant action.

ANOTHER WINDOW

Another window into this world.

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A long segmented orbital station arcs across a dark star field, its habitats lit in white, yellow and red.
Citizen Sleeper © Jump Over The Age; character art by Guillaume Singelin; published by Fellow Traveller. Images from the official press kit. · Source

FOLLOW THE THREAD

Follow this feeling somewhere else.

OPUS: Prism Peak

Point a camera and choose a perspective. Look for a way home through an unfamiliar land.

Night in the Woods

Make time for a town and its people. An adventure for the conversations along the way.