Update []: Announced during today's PC Gaming Showcase, Jump Over the Age cerebral tabletop RPG Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector is coming to Switch on January 31, 2025.
The first game made our list of games of 2022, so we expect great things from this sequel. You'll be able to pilot your own ship and build your own crew as you build relationships with the people you travel the Starward Belt with.
Check out the launch trailer above and let us know in the comments if you'll be picking it up next year.
Original story: Although it was formally revealed for PC and Xbox about a year ago, developer Jump Over the Age and publisher Fellow Traveler appeared at the PC Gaming Show this weekend to announce that Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector also launch on Switch. Moreover, it was given a release period of at the beginning of 2025.
If the title didn't already give it away, this is the sequel to the excellent tabletop-inspired RPG Citizen Sleeper from 2022. Like its predecessor, Starward Vector will see you play as an android (Sleeper) on the run from the company that created you. You'll need to take over the ship, gather the crew and complete as many tasks as possible before your decaying body stops your progress. A nice stress-free experience, then…
A brand new trailer gives us our first look at the gameplay of Citizen Sleeper 2, where our decisions will once again come down to rolling the dice. It also showcases the new Starward Belt setting, which looks huge compared to its predecessor's single station setting.
You can learn a bit more about the game's features and check out some screenshots below.
RESTART / RESTORATION / REPAIR
Nothing in the Belt ever runs smoothly, including the sleeper's artificial body. Citizen Sleeper's revolutionary dice system returns, revised for the sequel. Players will have to control their stress or risk damaging their dice. They will also have to deal with the problems that accumulate in their system.
DO THE WORK, GET PAID
Contracts offer a new kind of focused, tactical gameplay to the Citizen Sleeper experience. Players will need to carefully prepare and choose the right approach for these multiple high-risk/high-reward jobs – but they will also need to react and adapt to both the roll of the dice and the twists and turns of each task.
PUSH YOUR LUCK
Each character class now has a unique “Push” ability, which can help players turn the tide of a tough job or send them into a dangerous spiral, depending on how and when they choose to use it. Push skills can be upgraded and customized, and include abilities like rerolling dice or increasing individual dice. With the addition of Push, each class in Citizen Sleeper 2 will offer different tactical options.
BELT MOVEMENT
Starward Belt offers a larger, more diverse world than the original game. Instead of living at a single station, players will chart a course from hub to hub with complete freedom, taking on jobs and setting goals as they see fit. A living world, the belt rewards curiosity and care, but it's up to players to decide which locations and stories deserve their time and resources.
CHOOSE YOUR FUTURE
Player choice is a huge part of the Citizen Sleeper experience, and the sequel deepens it with new skill checks that allow players to express their class and character in cutscenes, as well as branching storylines that will ask them to make tough decisions. Your character's future depends on you!
We gave the first Citizen Sleeper an 'Awesome' 8/10 when we reviewed it in 2022, so we're glad to see its sequel making the jump to Switch early next year. We will expect a more accurate release date in the coming months.
