Citizen Sleeper: Dice System Explained

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Citizen Sleeper is one of the many ‘sleeper’ indie hits to come out this year. It perfectly melds resource management, investigation, character development, RPG elements, and fantastic dialogue to deliver an unforgettable experience. ‘Indie darling’ doesn’t come close to adequately describing it.

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One of the more interesting aspects of the game is resource management and allocation gameplay systems. This can take the form of currency, salvage, and other assorted items and data fragments. The biggest, however, is the game’s reliance on dice. If you want to succeed in Citizen Sleeper, you need to wrap your bonce around these ever-changing numerical prisms.

Dice in Citizen Sleeper represent an action. More so, they represent how effective any action you perform will be. Your dice pool will determine how effective you are at any given moment, and based on the number on your dice, your success rates will vary.

A Neutral result is still a success!

In short, the lower the dice number, the less reliable it will be when used. That doesn’t mean they are useless, however, and there are plenty of reasons to keep low dice numbers around.

You can use your dice to complete all kinds of tasks, objectives, and jobs in Citizen Sleeper. Navigating the map and interacting with different nodes will reveal various tasks you can complete. These could be manual labor, engineering, or even working the stock market. Whatever you choose to do, your dice will always perform in the same way.

Saving your best dice for tasks you need doing, is always a good idea. You could also save those dice to tackle more dangerous tasks. Some tasks may be risky, and therefore, could lead to damage.