Tabletop-Inspired RPG ‘Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector’ Gets January Release

Replace [Thu 5th Dec 2024, 10pm]: Introduced throughout immediately’s PC Gaming Showcase, Leap Over the Age’s cerebral tabletop RPG Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector is coming to Change on thirty first January 2025.

The primary recreation made it onto our Sport of the 12 months checklist in 2022, so we’re anticipating distinctive issues from this sequel. You will get to run your individual ship and construct your individual crew as you construct relationships with the folks you are travelling the Starward Belt with.

Take a look at the launch trailer above, and tell us when you’ll be selecting this one up subsequent 12 months within the feedback.

Unique Story: Whereas it was formally revealed for PC and Xbox round a 12 months in the past, developer Leap Over the Age and writer Fellow Traveller popped up at this weekend’s PC Gaming Present to announce that Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector will even launch on the Change. What’s extra, it has been given a launch window of early 2025.

If the title hasn’t given it away already, this can be a follow-up to 2022’s glorious tabletop-inspired RPG Citizen Sleeper. Like its predecessor, Starward Vector will see you enjoying as an android (Sleeper) on the run from the corporate that made you. You will must commandeer a ship, construct up a crew and perform as many duties as attainable earlier than your decaying physique halts your progress. A pleasant, stress-free expertise, then…

The brand-new trailer offers us our first have a look at the Citizen Sleeper 2 gameplay, the place our choices will as soon as once more come right down to the roll of a die. It additionally showcases the brand new Starward Belt setting, which seems enormous in comparison with its predecessor’s single-station atmosphere.

You will discover out somewhat extra concerning the recreation’s options and get a have a look at some screenshots under.

REBOOT / REBUILD / REPAIRNothing within the Belt ever runs easy, together with the synthetic physique of a Sleeper. Citizen Sleeper’s revolutionary cube system returns, revised for the sequel. Gamers must handle their stress or danger taking harm to their cube. They’ll additionally must cope with glitches as they accrue of their system.DO THE JOB, GET PAIDContracts supply a brand new form of centered, tactical gameplay to the Citizen Sleeper expertise. Gamers might want to put together rigorously and select the best strategy for these multi-cycle high-risk/high-reward jobs – however they’ll additionally must react and adapt to each the roll of the cube and the twists and turns of every activity.PUSH YOUR LUCKEach character class now has a singular “Push” capacity, which might help gamers flip the tide of a troublesome job or ship them right into a harmful spiral relying on how and after they select to make use of it. Push abilities are upgradable and customizable, and embrace skills like cube rerolls or single die augments. With the addition of Push, every class in Citizen Sleeper 2 will supply totally different tactical prospects.NAVIGATE THE BELTThe Starward Belt affords a much bigger, extra assorted world than the unique recreation. As an alternative of dwelling on a single station, gamers will chart a course from hub to hub with full freedom, taking over jobs and setting objectives as they see match. A dwelling world, the Belt rewards curiosity and care, but it surely’s as much as gamers to resolve which areas and tales deserve their time and assets.CHOOSE YOUR FUTUREPlayer alternative is a large a part of the Citizen Sleeper expertise, and the sequel deepens this with new talent checks that enable gamers to specific their class and character in scenes, in addition to branching storylines that may ask them to make laborious selections. The way forward for your character is as much as you!

We gave the primary Citizen Sleeper a ‘Nice’ 8/10 once we reviewed it again in 2022, so we’re happy to see that its sequel shall be making the soar over to Change early subsequent 12 months. We’ll be maintaining an eye fixed out for a extra exact launch date over the approaching months.