Do you ever play a game — or watch a movie, read a book, what have you — and it’s neither extraordinarily bad, or extraordinarily good, but for whatever reason you just can’t stop thinking about it? It sticks with you because there’s simply something missing. Something unanswered.
This essay is about The Outer Worlds.
You make your character. You crash on an unknown world. A life in the stars awaits you, yes, but mostly a life under the thumb of corporations. You’re a newcomer, and an outsider, in a hyper-capitalist world.
It’s less often that that unanswered feeling actually gets an answer. I played The Outer Worlds in 2021. I enjoyed my time with it plenty, but when I finished the game I couldn’t help but feel there was something missing. I found that missing thing almost a year later, when I played a different game.
This essay is about Citizen Sleeper.
You make your character. You crash on an unknown world. A life in the stars awaits you, yes, but mostly a life under the thumb of corporations. You’re a newcomer, and an outsider, in a hyper-capitalist world.