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''Citizen Sleeper'' is a Narrative Driven {{Adventure| Game}} [[RolePlayingGame RPG]] developed by Jump Over The Age, distributed by Fellow Traveller, and released in May 2022, available for UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch, as well as UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows and UsefulNotes/AppleMacintosh via UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}, Website/GoodOldGames, and Creator/HumbleBundle.

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''Citizen Sleeper'' is a Narrative Driven {{Cyberpunk}} {{Adventure| Game}} [[RolePlayingGame RPG]] developed by Jump Over The Age, distributed by Fellow Traveller, and released in May 2022, available for UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch, as well as UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows and UsefulNotes/AppleMacintosh via UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}, Website/GoodOldGames, and Creator/HumbleBundle.
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Jump Over The Age announced in June 2022 that they are planning to release a trilogy of "DLC Episodes", which will introduce new storylines and characters to the game, with a focus on expanding on the wider going-ons and politics of the Helion System, the star system in which Erlin's Eye orbits. The first of these episodes, titled ''FLUX'', is set for a July 2022 release. The two other episodes are currently set to release in October 2022 and early 2023.

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Jump Over The Age announced in June 2022 that they are planning to release a trilogy of "DLC Episodes", which will introduce new storylines and characters to the game, with a focus on expanding on the wider politics and going-ons and politics of the Helion System, the star system in which Erlin's Eye orbits. The first of these episodes, titled ''FLUX'', is set for a July 2022 release. The two other episodes are currently set to release in October 2022 and early 2023.
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Jump Over The Age announced in June 2022 that they are going release a trilogy of "DLC Episodes" for , which will introduce new storylines to the game, with a focus on expanding on the wider narrative and politics of the Helion System, the star system in which the Erlin's Eye orbits. The first of these episodes, titled ''FLUX'', is set for a July 2022 release. The two other episodes are currently set to release in October 2022 and early 2023.

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Jump Over The Age announced in June 2022 that they are going planning to release a trilogy of "DLC Episodes" for , Episodes", which will introduce new storylines and characters to the game, with a focus on expanding on the wider narrative going-ons and politics of the Helion System, the star system in which the Erlin's Eye orbits. The first of these episodes, titled ''FLUX'', is set for a July 2022 release. The two other episodes are currently set to release in October 2022 and early 2023.
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Jump Over The Age announced in June 2022 that they are going release a trilogy of "DLC Episodes" for , which will introduce new storylines to the game, with a focus on expanding on the wider narrative and politics of the Helion System, the star system in which the Erlin's Eye orbits. The first of these episodes, titled ''FLUX'', is set for a July 2022 release. The two other episodes are currently set to release in October 2022 and early 2023.
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* AIIsaCrapshoot: The station has multiple sentient AI constructs, some of which have gone mad after decades out of control. One of them hunts you down in {{Cyberspace}} and there are questlines involving assisting others.

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* AIIsaCrapshoot: AIIsACrapshoot: The station has multiple sentient AI constructs, some of which have gone mad after decades out of control. One of them hunts you down in {{Cyberspace}} and there are questlines involving assisting others.
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''Citizen Sleeper'' is a Narrative Driven {{Adventure| Game}} RPG developed by Jump Over The Age, distributed by Fellow Traveller, and released in May 2022, available for UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch, as well as UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows and UsefulNotes/AppleMacintosh via UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}, Website/GoodOldGames, and Creator/HumbleBundle.

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''Citizen Sleeper'' is a Narrative Driven {{Adventure| Game}} RPG [[RolePlayingGame RPG]] developed by Jump Over The Age, distributed by Fellow Traveller, and released in May 2022, available for UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch, as well as UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows and UsefulNotes/AppleMacintosh via UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}, Website/GoodOldGames, and Creator/HumbleBundle.
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* UngratefulBastard: [[spoiler:[[BountyHunter Ethan]] turns out to be this in his questline. After having his contract on you cancelled, he offers to protect you from the new bounty hunter Maywick in return for helping him work off his debt to the Kompressor Club. And you even help him steal his confiscated gun back from the club. Instead, upon reclaiming his gun he turns on you, revealing that he sent Maywick your location in return for a 50/50 cut of the bounty. Luckily, Maywick instead shoots him dead before he can finish you off, and you manage to shoot Maywick dead with Ethan's gun before he can kill you too.]]
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* RiddleForTheAges: What was it that caused the person the player character was originally based on to agree to undergoing the Sleeper treatment? The game never proposes a straight answer to this question.
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You are a sleeper, an emulated copy of another's mind in a synthetic body owned the Essen-Arp Corporation. You have escaped to the station Erlin's Eye, recently freed from the yoke of it's corporate rulers, looking for a new life. But all is not smooth sailing in your journey to find a new home...

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You are a sleeper, an emulated copy of another's mind in a synthetic body owned the Essen-Arp Corporation. You have escaped to the station Erlin's Eye, Eye -- a rundown space station at the edge of corporate controlled space -- recently freed from the yoke of it's corporate rulers, looking for a new life. But all is not smooth sailing in your journey to find a new home...
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''Citizen Sleeper'' is a Narrative Driven Adventure RPG developed by Jump Over The Age, distributed by Fellow Traveller, and released in May 2022, available for UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch, as well as UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows and UsefulNotes/AppleMacintosh via UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}, Website/GoodOldGames, and Creator/HumbleBundle.

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''Citizen Sleeper'' is a Narrative Driven Adventure {{Adventure| Game}} RPG developed by Jump Over The Age, distributed by Fellow Traveller, and released in May 2022, available for UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch, as well as UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows and UsefulNotes/AppleMacintosh via UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}, Website/GoodOldGames, and Creator/HumbleBundle.
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''Citizen Sleeper'' is a Narrative Driven Adventure RPG developed by Jump Over The Age and distributed by Fellow Traveller, available for UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch, as well as UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows and UsefulNotes/AppleMacintosh via UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}, Website/GoodOldGames, and Creator/HumbleBundle.

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''Citizen Sleeper'' is a Narrative Driven Adventure RPG developed by Jump Over The Age and Age, distributed by Fellow Traveller, and released in May 2022, available for UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch, as well as UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows and UsefulNotes/AppleMacintosh via UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}, Website/GoodOldGames, and Creator/HumbleBundle.
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* UsedFuture: The station is far from new, in fact it's unfinished ''and'' in a massive state of disrepair to the point there are plans afoot to abandon it entirely.

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* UsedFuture: The station is far from new, in fact it's unfinished ''and'' in a massive state of disrepair to the point there are plans afoot to abandon it entirely.entirely.
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* TheCasino: One exists on the station that the player can win a lot of money at with the right dice rolls.
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* MultipleEndings: There are various ways to finish, the most obvious and likely earliest ones the player will get are leaving the station on the Sidereal, which can be on their own or along with another set of characters. There are 9 in total, although some allow you to continue playing and following along to other endings.

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* MultipleEndings: There are various ways to finish, the most obvious and likely earliest ones the player will get are leaving the station on the Sidereal, which can be on their own or along 9 endings in total with another set of characters. There are 9 in total, although some allow allowing you to continue playing and following along to other endings.playing.

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* MultipleEndings: There are various ways to finish, the most obvious and likely earliest ones the player will get are leaving the station on the Sidereal, which can be on their own or along with another set of characters.

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* MultipleEndings: There are various ways to finish, the most obvious and likely earliest ones the player will get are leaving the station on the Sidereal, which can be on their own or along with another set of characters. There are 9 in total, although some allow you to continue playing and following along to other endings.
**[[spoiler:Four as the completion of the Lem & Mina questline involving the Sidereal Horizon, involving leaving on the ship alone, leaving on the ship with Lem & Mina, rejecting the ship but allowing Lem & Mina to leave and destroying the ID's so that neither you or Lem & Mina can leave.]]
**[[spoiler: Two that follow the Neovend cyberspace plotline, with one where you kill your body and stay in Cyberspace with the Gardener AI, and the other where you return back to the land of the living.]]
**[[spoiler: Two that follow Bliss' questline, one where you leave with her and one where you stay.]]
**[[spoiler: The final ending, one that confers no achievement, that happens when you reject the opportunities to leave the station and to dissolve yourself and become one with cyberspace. There is NoEnding. You simply continue to exist.]]
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* ResourcesManagementGameplay: Your health is determined by your condition, which means you have to acquire stablizers. You also have to maintain your energy levels or your condition will drop. To perform actions, each day you gain a number of dice rolls, which represent taking an action as well as how useful the action is. There are a number of inventory items such as the stablizers, credits, scrap and non-physical data to manage.
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* TimedMission: You sometimes have to wait cycles before you can continue, and in others there is something you need to complete before the timer runs out.

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* TimedMission: You sometimes have to wait cycles before you can continue, and in others there is something you need to complete before the timer runs out.out.
* UsedFuture: The station is far from new, in fact it's unfinished ''and'' in a massive state of disrepair to the point there are plans afoot to abandon it entirely.

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* GrandTheftMe: Two main versions. The first are the "sleepers" of the title and player character who are synthetic copies of another person. The other is when a person is hijacked for communications purposes.

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* TheEngineer: One of the skills, allowing the player to perform better when interacting with machines.
* GrandTheftMe: Two main versions. The first are the "sleepers" of the title and player character who are synthetic copies of another person. The other is when a person is hijacked for communications purposes.purposes.
* ImpossiblyCoolClothes: All the characters have extremely cool looking cyberpunk outfits ranging from space suits to work clothes or guard uniforms.
* KleptomaniacHero: One of the sources of food energy is to steal from the Commune's grown beds.
* LossOfIdentity: A core element of the player characters narrative. They are not 'real'. They are a synthetic clone that shouldn't be alive, and is hunted down by the evil corporation.
* MultipleEndings: There are various ways to finish, the most obvious and likely earliest ones the player will get are leaving the station on the Sidereal, which can be on their own or along with another set of characters.
* MrFixit: The player character can start out as a machinist character who starts with an engineering skill for working with machines and physical tools. Also in general since you don't actually have to specialise in these skills, they simply give bonuses to your dice rolls. Much of the game revolves around you fixing machines or helping people with their ships or buildings. Other characters also work in this area, most specifically Bliss the Ship Mechanic.
* NightmarishFactory: The station as a whole is decrepit, dangerous and incomplete.
* PunchClockVillain: The security workers aren't particularly evil and don't prove that much of a threat to you.
* TheReveal: Various elements of the storyline are built up over multiple turns (cycles) and events.
* TimedMission: You sometimes have to wait cycles before you can continue, and in others there is something you need to complete before the timer runs out.
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* BlessedWithSuck: Apparently the player characters synthetic body can survive ''hard vacuum'', but still requires food intake as well as a regular injection of the "stabilizer" that prevents total system shutdown.
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* BackAlleyDoctor: Sabine the "Slum Doctor" helps you find stablizer to prevent your death, as well as being involved in the wider plotline.

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!!Tropes found in "In Other Waters" include:

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!!Tropes found in "In Other Waters" include:"Citizen Sleeper" include:
* ArtificialIntelligence: The cyberspace constructions help run the station. Another you find in a derelict, hidden vending machine.
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* Dystopia: Of a technolibertarianism variant, with corporations who control the lives of workers, discarding them on a whim, signing them up to lifetimes of indentured servitude, caring only for the profit they can extract.

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* Dystopia: {{Dystopia}}: Of a technolibertarianism variant, with corporations who control the lives of workers, discarding them on a whim, signing them up to lifetimes of indentured servitude, caring only for the profit they can extract.

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* {{Cyberpunk}}: Transhumanism? Check. Evil Corporations exploiting ordinary citizens to an inch of their life? Check. Big squalor slums in a high tech, but decrepit space station? Check.

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* AIIsaCrapshoot: The station has multiple sentient AI constructs, some of which have gone mad after decades out of control. One of them hunts you down in {{Cyberspace}} and there are questlines involving assisting others.
* {{Cyberpunk}}: Transhumanism? Check. Evil Corporations exploiting ordinary citizens to an inch of their life? Check. Big squalor slums in a high tech, but decrepit space station? Check.Check.
* {{Cyberspace}}: The non-physical layer of the game is this, with nodes of control and points of access you can break into.
* DoAndroidsDream: Comes up as a question from multiple AI constructs, questioning if they are sentient or just complicated machines that pretend to be.
* Dystopia: Of a technolibertarianism variant, with corporations who control the lives of workers, discarding them on a whim, signing them up to lifetimes of indentured servitude, caring only for the profit they can extract.
* GrandTheftMe: Two main versions. The first are the "sleepers" of the title and player character who are synthetic copies of another person. The other is when a person is hijacked for communications purposes.
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* Cyberpunk: Transhumanism? Check. Evil Corporations exploiting ordinary citizens to an inch of their life? Check. Big squalor slums in a high tech, but decrepit space station? Check.

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* Cyberpunk: {{Cyberpunk}}: Transhumanism? Check. Evil Corporations exploiting ordinary citizens to an inch of their life? Check. Big squalor slums in a high tech, but decrepit space station? Check.
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* Cyberpunk:Cyberpunk: Transhumanism? Check. Evil Corporations exploiting ordinary citizens to an inch of their life? Check. Big squalor slums in a high tech, but decrepit space station? Check.
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''Citizen Sleeper'' is a Narrative Driven Adventure RPG developed by Jump Over The Age and distributed by Fellow Traveller, available for UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch, as well as UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows and UsefulNotes/AppleMacintosh via UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}, Website/GoodOldGames, and Creator/HumbleBundle.

You are a sleeper, an emulated copy of another's mind in a synthetic body owned the Essen-Arp Corporation. You have escaped to the station Erlin's Eye, recently freed from the yoke of it's corporate rulers, looking for a new life. But all is not smooth sailing in your journey to find a new home...

!!Tropes found in "In Other Waters" include:
* Cyberpunk:

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