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The creator of Citizen Sleeper 2 is making two new games - Engadget

Leading up to the release of last year's Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector, creator Gareth Damian Martin said they were done creating new Citizen Sleeper video games. Instead, Martin promised to continue the series on the tabletop. It was a fitting plan, given so much of Martin's inspiration for Citizen Sleeper and Citizen Sleeper 2 came from TTRPGs like Blades in the Dark. And they quickly lived up that promise, releasing Spindlejack, a free solo game set on one of the stations players could visit in CS2, a few months after. As a fan of the series, I thought that might all the new Citizen Sleeper Martin had planned for a little while, but today they've announced they're working on an entirely new tabletop game called Citizen Sleeper: Helion Rising. "Helion Rising is a TTRPG about surviving in the ruins of interplanetary capitalism, resisting corporate power, and building a future, cycle by cycle, together," Martin writes of their new project. "You play as a member of a crew, along with your friends, as you try to make ends meet in a solar system built from the remains of a corporate collapse. You'll take on challenging contracts, try to navigate a path between hostile and friendl

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The creator of Citizen Sleeper 2 is making two new games - Engadget

Leading up to the release of last year's Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector, creator Gareth Damian Martin said they were done creating new Citizen Sleeper video games. Instead, Martin promised to continue the series on the tabletop. It was…

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The creator of Citizen Sleeper 2 is making two new games - Engadget

Leading up to the release of last year's Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector, creator Gareth Damian Martin said they were done creating new Citizen Sleeper video games. Instead, Martin promised to continue the series on…

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