Chris InglisIndie publisher Fellow Traveller and developer Jump Over The Age have this week announced that FLUX, the first of three free DLC episodes for Citizen Sleeper, will launch on July 28. Citizen Sleeper is one of my favourite games of 2022 and is the perfect blend of visual novel and simple RPG gameplay with a story that’s rich and compelling. FLUX will kick off a new overarching storyline that plays out across all three episodes, expanding on the wider narrative of the Helion System, the star system in which the Eye orbits.
Pressures in the Helion system have brought the first ships of a refugee flotilla to Erlin’s Eye. You will meet and help those that get on-station before the quarantine locks them out. The storyline will also introduce a number of new characters, the first of which is Eshe, captain of the Climbing Briar. A stubborn and driven spacer, Eshe’s fate becomes tangled up with the flotilla. Her story will challenge the player to choose how to deal with a growing crisis that could threaten the entire station.
In FLUX, you’ll also cross paths with Peake, the second member of the Climbing Briar’s crew. They have a cooler head than their captain and an ability to disappear when necessary. The player will get to know more about them as they make a plan to get much needed relief through the quarantine to the refugee flotilla. Citizen Sleeper will be updated with two more free episodes after FLUX, each one expanding the story arc on Erlin’s Eye.
The FLUX DLC episode is intended for late game play, so existing save files will be better equipped to tackle it, and it adds about 1-2 hours of additional story gameplay. Citizen Sleeper is available now on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, Steam, GOG, Epic, and Humble, and is also playable on Xbox Game Pass, and the FLUX DLC will launch on July 28, 2022.
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