CITIZEN SLEEPER

It’s fair to say Gareth Damian Martin isn’t hugely optimistic about humanity’s future. His TTRPGinspired follow-up to In Other Waters plonks you aboard an abandoned space station, Erlin’s Eye, in which you eke out a fairly miserable existence as an artificial intelligence within a body designed for obsolescence. Cheery stuff, then, but In Other Waters tempered its bleak worldview with wry humour and compassion for its characters, and here you’ll have the opportunity to band together with fellow scavengers and misfits to break free of the corporate yoke. Invariably, there’s risk involved in the tasks you need to complete to achieve this – but then that’s inherent in any game where dice (and ticking clocks) are involved. Despite the sci-fi trappings, it’s a perceptive commentary on the precarity of the present-day gig economy. It’s an ugly world, but hey, at least the UI is beautiful.