Xbox Game Pass Users, Now Is The Best Time To Roll The Dice On This Fantastic RPG

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Xbox Game Pass is perhaps most known for its offering of massive, AAA games to justify its monthly price tag. Beyond those more traditional offerings, however, Game Pass has a host of smaller, independent games that also deserve a playthrough. , a masterful TTRPG-inspired sci-fi narrative, is one of those games.

packs a punch of inventive game design, well-crafted writing, and an overall truly engaging experience, all wrapped within a binge-friendly runtime. While it is worth playing at any time, Game Pass's next slew of January offerings includes the much-anticipated. While some gameplay departures are being made in this next installment, the quality of promises a worthwhile experience,and it's worth playing the original now before the next space-faring journey begins.

is anything but a by-the-numbers RPG experience, standing out from anything else available on Xbox Game Pass. Players begin the game by choosing one of three playable sleepers, each with a different skill set to withstand the journey ahead. Sleepers represent a truly dystopic future, robots infused with a human consciousness, bought and sold by corporations as a means of labor. The player's sleeper finds themselves in a lively space station, having escaped the grasp of the corporation they worked for.

The narrative remains the same for each beautifully represented Sleeper. The replayability comes from their skills, which dramatically influence the choices players make on their journey.

The story could end there, with an artificial body having freed itself from the grasp of a corporation waking in a new home. Quickly, though, the Sleeper is beset by challenges: the corporation actively trying to recover it, the politics of the space station, and the interactions and distrust of its citizens. This is without mentioning more basic needs, like a place to sleep, food to eat, and a new core for power.

The corporation, of course, fits each sleeper with a core, a component needed to function. The cores are