to be fair, this knowledge isn't yet known, even to the pizza restaurants

I live for the bad dice rolls, I'm in

I described my time with the first game as getting the feeling of my paycheck finally being deposited. Feeling like "ok I think I'm good, everything's fine" several different times with stretches of uncertainty in between. Can't wait to jump into Starward Vector this weekend!

See the end of my piece for general rules for my challenge run with examples and suggestions! Thank you for reading! open.substack.com/pub/joshcv/p...

That is the true humanity of the Sleeper. We have the ability to choose, to live,to be wrong, to change.

The challenge run I had set for myself playing Citizen Sleeper only allowed me to make certain choices until all of my choices were brought into question by Castor.

These systems are not simply for the niche indie market either. Ever heard of Elden Ring? Baldur’s Gate? Pokémon?

The wheel offers the closest thing to player freedom a game can, like this interaction I had with Ankhita while fixing her spaceship.

Citizen Sleeper represents interactions with a wheel that fills as you take actions. When the wheel is filled and dialogue is triggered, an implied relationship has formed with the character. Each tick on the wheel is an interaction for the player to imagine.

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