'Citizen Sleeper': A fight for survival in space

'Citizen Sleeper' relies on a lot of dialogue and decision-making options. — Jump over the Age/Fellow Traveller/dpa

DUBLIN: A run-down space station inhabited by a society filled with exploitation and poverty: In the sci-fi role-playing console and PC/Mac game Citizen Sleeper, greedy companies hold power and have little regard for the wishes of the population.

Especially badly off on the station are the eponymous Sleepers. These workers are humans who have been trapped by the corporations in a kind of robotic body and linked to artificial intelligence.