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Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector

Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch 2, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Mac, Nintendo Switch • 2025

Should you play it?

A dice-driven RPG, in a human and heartfelt sci-fi world. You are an escaped android, with a malfunctioning body, a price on your head and no memory of your past. Get a ship, find a crew, and take on contracts while you navigate across the Starward Belt.

What works

  • Compelling narrative and characters
  • Engaging dice-based mechanics
  • Expansive sci-fi world and exploration
  • Emotional and atmospheric music and art
  • Meaningful player choices and relationships

Things to keep in mind

  • Some players find contracts punishing or frustrating
  • Limited replay value after completion
  • Crew interactions could be deeper
  • Some mechanics feel restrictive or unbalanced
  • Story pacing less cohesive than first game for some

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Starstruck Vagabond

  • Space Food Truck

  • The Alters

  • A House of Many Doors

  • Super Motherload

  • Thea 2: The Shattering

More violent

Games that feels like Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector but with more combat and destruction

  • Ravenswatch

  • Space Crew: Legendary Edition

  • CyberCorp

  • The Red Solstice

  • Dungeon of the ENDLESS™

  • PULSAR: Lost Colony

Less intimate

Games that feels like Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector but with less focus on close relationships

  • FTL: Faster Than Light

  • Unexplored 2: The Wayfarer's Legacy

  • Beyond Contact

  • Chromosome Evil

  • Distrust: Polar Survival

  • Between the Stars

Less social

Games that feels like Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector but with less teamwork and cooperation

  • Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown

  • IXION

  • Esoteric Ebb

  • Starcom: Unknown Space

  • Wantless : Solace at World’s End

  • Shortest Trip to Earth

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Similarity map

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  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
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  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
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  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Cooperation, Fellowship, Intimacy, Leadership. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Leadership, Story. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Violence.

Last update: 04/08/2026