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Citizen Sleeper 2 still has “around a year of development left”, likely coming in 2025The Helion Dispatches newsletter will also resume in the summer
The Helion Dispatches newsletter will also resume in the summer
Image credit:Fellow Traveller
Image credit:Fellow Traveller
When we published ourmost anticipated games of 2024list last month, eagle-eyed readers may have noticed that there was one notable absence:Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector. Don’t get me wrong - I’m stillvery muchlooking forward to continuing my journey through the Helion System in the follow-up to 2022’s exquisite sci-fiRPG, but when developer Jump Over The Agefirst announced it last June, I got the sense it would take quite a bit longer than the next 12 months to come out. Now, Jump Over The Age has confirmed that, yep, “there’s around a year left of development” to go on the game, putting its release firmly into 2025 territory.
“There’s around a year left of development, and already the sequel is looking bigger and more varied than the original. I’m really proud of what we’ve been able to do, and I ask you to be patient for a little while longer, as we prepare for our big reveal, and a few small teases between now and then too…”
Elsewhere in the newsletter, there was also an update on theHelion Dispatches text logs, which have been running as free monthly newsletters over the last six months as little extra story nuggets filling in some of the backstory betweenCitizen Sleeper1 and 2. I’ve had a great time reading them since they started up (you cancatch up hereif you missed them), but alas, they’ll be going on hiatus for the next little while, resuming again in the summer.
“Cyrene is going dark for a while, as the Pilgrim Seed tries to navigate Conway-controlled space, but she’ll be back for the second half of the season sometime this summer,” Jump Over The Age said. “As Cyrene would say: to a free Helion. Now and forever.”
In its place, Jump Over The Age said they hope to release a monthly development update on everything Citizen Sleeper more generally, so fingers crossed we’ll get some extra nuggets of Starward Vector info as the months go on.
If you’ve yet to play Citizen Sleeper 1, it’s currently on sale, with discounts of up to 30-50% off depending on your platform / region. You can get the full 50% off onSteamright now, for example (at least in the UK), bringing it down to an exceedingly reasonable £8.37. It’s also onGame Passstill as well - andshould be sticking aroundon the subscription service after the release of the sequel, too.
