Not only was I tasked with building a huge cache of food, water, and scrap for the refugees, but also implementing risky security breaches to help the ship actually reach them. Well, I really threw myself into the deep end there. Even though I was warned that the DLC quest would be demanding, I still went forward without thinking about how much these commitments would add up when I only had five actions a day, and that’s only if I kept my condition maxed out at no small cost. I overcommitted my character to two time-sensitive questlines, one involving supplying a ton of materials to refugees quarantined by the order of the higher powers in the station (which is the beginning of its stellar three-episode free DLC), and another helping the mechanic Bliss set up her repair yard in the Hub and do increasingly difficult jobs for different space vessels. But just as I was getting comfortable, the stakes ratcheted back up tenfold as I continued to make connections and explore the station.

I had even passed the exciting milestone of finding new lodging for my Sleeper outside of the cold shipping container I crashed on the station in, in the form of the Hypha Commune in the Greenway. Through skill upgrades, I was capable enough as an engineer and cargo hauler to get some decent jobs and more than a couple chits to scrape together to afford delectable fried mushrooms consistently, while also keeping my condition maintained to maximize my daily actions. My Extractor was finally starting to gain their footing on the Erlin’s Eye station. As you meet more denizens of Erlin’s Eye, you’ll have built your own personal web of friendships, rivalries, and both fulfilled and broken promises aplenty along the way. But while you can build your own skills and capabilities up, your real salvation on the station are the characters you’ll meet who do what they can for you and vice versa. Pretty much everyone who starts Citizen Sleeper is familiar with the anxiety and dread of the early game, seeing your Sleeper character’s energy and the condition of your artificial body slowly drain as you try to scrape together enough cryo for the cheapest meals you can find.

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