For large swaths of its playtime, Citizen Sleeper 2 is more or less a book. Dice rolls or no, you spend the bulk of your time in-game reading. For me, that rules, especially because developer Gareth ...

Great games make you feel things. This isn’t limited to joy or delight. I feel like if it can evoke any kind of meaningful emotions that aren’t overwhelming frustration tied to bad gameplay or broken ...

Joey Brown is an interview reporter, editor, and lifelong gamer with experience in nearly every genre from space sims and MMORPGs to metroidvanias and city builders. He has sat down with industry ...

It's the future, and you are not a person. A shirtless young man with a military buzzcut and piercing blue eyes is talking to you. His camo leggings straddle the line between yoga instructor and ...

Joey Brown is an interview reporter, editor, and lifelong gamer with experience in nearly every genre from space sims and MMORPGs to metroidvanias and city builders. He has sat down with industry ...

Life for Sleepers is fraught. They gain consciousness in a state of indentured servitude, an emulated human mind inside an android body, forced to work until they’re discarded. Those who escape don’t ...

Roleplaying on the edge of a system in crisis. You are an escaped android, with a malfunctioning body, a price on your head ...

Much like the original Citizen Sleeper, the follow up hits you with a beautiful, transcendental soundtrack as soon as the game loads. The first few notes I found to be very reminiscent of the menu ...

To play Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector, you simply roll a set of dice. Roll the dice, assign the dice, repeat. It’s almost like playing Yahtzee. But instead of gathering with friends or family ...

An abandoned, powerful spaceship hides somewhere in the Starward Belt. My contact Yu-Jin swears he can find it — I scrounge up a crew and zip to his coordinates, only to lose out to a competitor who ...

Josh Speer has been writing about videogames for more than a decade now, but he's loved them since he was a small boy. He grew up with Mario and Mega Man, moved onto RPGs with Chrono Trigger and Final ...