The best RPG of 2022 is getting a sequel next year and you can play a demo for it now. No, I’m not talking about Elden Ring or Xenoblade Chronicles 3. The tabletop RPG-inspired Citizen Sleeper 2 builds on the first game’s moving story and incredible dice-based skill system, and from the short time I’ve now spent with its demo, it could even be poised to exceed the original.
Citizen Sleeper 2 begins like the first game, with your Sleeper — a cloned human consciousness stuffed into a robotic shell — awakening on an unfamiliar space station. In the original, you’d stuffed yourself into a shipping container to make your way to the new station and escape the corporation holding you captive. This time around, it’s even worse. You wake up with no memory of who or where you are, since you’ve been woken up in the middle of a hard reboot. As you quickly learn, you’ve been awoken by Laine, a criminal who you’re indebted to, and the reboot was being performed by your partner Serafin to cut your dependence on Stabilizer.
