E49 Citizen Sleeper

Pixel Vision

Wake up, Citizen! Ben and Tao are in festive spirits as they dish out a Christmas feast of sci-fi turkey with roast story spoilers on the side and cranberry DLC toppings in dice rolling space adventure, Citizen Sleeper - to be clear, absolutely not a turkey, by any definition! Your boys riding the mic get lyrical, discussing the overlap between board games and video games, gaming achievements, romance and gender in RPGs, playing good and evil, characters you can root for, and, naturally, Pixel Vision’s Christmas tradition… There’s a multitude of story spoilers after our initial reactions and the Taomun-ologue.

Content Warning: PEGI 12. Pretty PG this one. ‘Tis the season, innit.

Clarifications:

* Citizen Sleeper’s excellent soundtrack is by Amos Roddy. It’s available on Spotify:

* Gareth Damian Martin talks to PCGamer about his personal experience relating to gender and its influence on the game’s development.

* The other game by Gareth Damian Martin and ‘Jump Over The Edge’ studios is In Other Waters, which also looks really cool…

Audio extracts:

* Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

* The Twelve Days of Christmas - The King's Singers and The Tabernacle Choir

* Slade - Merry Christmas Everybody

* Disco Elysium OST

* Weird Al Yankovic - Smells like Nirvana

* The Beatles - All You Need Is Love

* Kool & The Gang - Get Down On It

* Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows

* Icewind Dale 2

* The Dark Knight

* Free Guy

* The Sopranos

* Repo Men

* Nina Simone - My Baby Just Cares For Me

* Sunless Sea OST

* Shaun of the Dead

* Hearthstone OST

* Observation OST

* Paradise Killer OST by Barry "Epoch" Topping

* In Other Waters OST - A Drifting Lens by Amos Roddy

* A Plague Tale: Innocence OST

* Frank Sinatra - Jingle Bells

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