Citizen Sleeper
Fair · RPG · 2022
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 70% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$19.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$5.9970% offBANGER
- Cost per hour▼
- $2.86/hr
- ReviewsS
- 92% of 10,749
- Critics
- 82 players 10 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 7% RPG
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $5.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 7h
- To 100%
- 13.6h 1.9x the story
- Achievements
- 27
Price and sales
- Sales
- 41 on record
- Typical cut
- 60% off
- Steam low
- $5.99 November 2024
- Sale every
- 44d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 32 now
- Recent reviews
- 96% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 10% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 96% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
64% start to 6% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
41 discounts in the 5 years on record, a median of 60 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. The math puts its BANGER price at $7.00. The record reaches that level 19 times.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 7 percent. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Shadowrun Returns ($14.99, scores 70) beats it on value, while it beats Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector ($24.99, scores 62).
More about Citizen Sleeper
Critics scored it 82. Players sit 10 points higher at 92 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 10 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2022 to September 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,872 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 2,125 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 61 percent of the 266 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 17 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
its a chill game to play but many of the quests i couldn't complete late game because they were inaccessible and tracking missions didn't help you locate them. It also had slight political propaganda that was pro-refugee and tried to make the player feel bad if he didn't side with flooding the space station with refugees on flotillas. The flotilla was also ran by what looked like a transsexual and a black woman. The...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Story wise, you don't get much opportunity to form an attachment to any of the characters and as soon as intrigue is built up in a sub plot, it is deflated in the next beat. Thematically blunt. For gameplay, the mechanical tension begins to evaporate after about an hour and it gets monotonous fast. Derivative of Disco Elysium with none of the things that made it good, and no legs of its own. Good background music.
Citizen Sleeper is the perfect marriage between book and game, both being artforms that I love Looking at the screenshots of Citizen Sleeper is like taking a picture of a random page from a great book and expecting you to understand what it feels like to read it. In reality, there is no other world in a game that feels as alive and breathing to me as Citizen Sleeper through the imagination it invokes. It gives you...
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About the game
Roleplaying in the ruins of interplanetary capitalism. Live the life of an escaped worker, washed-up on a lawless station at the edge of an interstellar society. Inspired by the flexibility and freedom of TTRPGs, explore the station, choose your friends, escape your past and change your future.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, DirectX 11 compatible GPU, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Cite this score
Citizen Sleeper scores 67/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1578650/citizen-sleeperReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 31, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.