Citizen Sleeper 2: learning to live on the edge of a corporate war

Like sea mines washing up on the beaches of the Black Sea, the consequences of someone else’s war keep arriving in the lives of this science-fiction game’s charactersIn any other game, two mega corporations obliterating each other in a galactic war would be the story’s focus. But in Citizen Sleeper 2, the conflict between Conway and Senetstat at the centre of the Helion System is background noise. “Citizen Sleeper is a game about the periphery,” designer Gareth Dami