With the season of giving now officially upon us, Jingle Jam has unveiled its latest PC charity bundle – this year featuring the stellar likes of Citizen Sleeper, Shadows of Doubt, and Frostpunk, which can all be snapped up in support of a bunch of good causes. In total, the Jingle Jam 2024 Games Collection feature 18 titles (all supplied as Steam codes), and there’s a lot of good stuff to be found. For the most part we’re in the realm of indies, although Sega and Two Point Studios’ enormously enjoyable Two Point Campus sneaks in too. Also up for grabs are ColePowered Games’ wildly ambitious procedurally generated detective noir Shadows of Doubt (which we gave three stars back in October), superb sci-fi narrative adventure Citizen Sleeper (Recommended), survival city builder Frostpunk (also Recommended), and minimalist puzzler Patrick’s Parabox (four stars!). The Jingle Jam 2024 Games Collection official trailer.Watch on YouTube But there’s more: roguelike card battler Widlfrost is in there (this one made Bertie’s Games of 2023 list), as is wonderfully engaging sci-fi construction sim Mars First Logistics, sticker store management game Sticky Business, crustacean-themed Souls-like Another Crab’s Treasure, and the sequel to acclaimed 2018 tabletop-style RPG adventure, For the King 2. Also included is the well-received blackjack roguelike adventure Dungeons & Degenerate Gamblers, Geiger-esque horror Scorn, action-tower defense game Orcs Must Die 3, dystopian racer Death Sprint 66, dating sim action-RPG Eternights, card-battling rogue-like Hadean Tactics, hand-drawn puzzle adventure Submachine: Legacy, and Fight in Tight Spaces – a “stylish blend of deck-building, turn-based tactics, and thrilling animated fight sequences in classic action-movie settings”. And if you prefer you lists in bullet point form: Dungeons & Degenerate Gamblers Wildfrost Two Point Camps Shadows of Doubt Patrick’s Parabox For the King 2 Citizen Sleeper Another Crab’s Treasure Mars First Logistics Sticky Business Hadean Tactics Submachine: Legacy Scorn Orcs Must Die! 3 Fights in Tight Spaces Death Sprint 66 Eternights Frostpunk The Jingle Jam 2024 Games Collection is a bit of corker, then, and if you’re sufficiently swayed, all the above can be acquired for a very reasonable donation of £35. Or rather, for a minimum donation of £35 – with more appreciated if you’re able, seeing as organisers are hoping to raise as much money as possible for this year’s eight selected charities. More specifically, money accrued though Jingle Jam 2024’s charity bundle will go to Autistica, Campaign Against Living Miserably, Cool Earth, Sarcoma UK, The Trevor Project, Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Appeal, Whale and Dolphin Conservation, and War Child. You can read more about each charity – and purchase this year’s games bundle – over on the Jingle Jam website. At the time of writing, it’s successfully raised £1,277,979.
Category: Citizen Sleeper
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We’re discounting our annual membership, and we’ve got Citizen Sleeper to give away with it
We’ve got a double-whammy for you today: a Black Friday discount for yearly Eurogamer subscriptions and a game giveaway for yearly subscribers. And the game is a good one: Citizen Sleeper.
Applying the Black Friday 20 percent-off discount is simple. Click through to our “Support Us” section and then click to subscribe for a yearly membership. Then, on the payment screen, click to add a promotional code and enter EGBF24. The price should drop from £30/€30/$30 to £24/€24/$24. That works out at £2/€2/$2 a month, in case you’re wondering; a regular monthly subscription costs £3/€3/$3. This discount code will expire on Tuesday, 3rd December, at midnight UTC.
The benefit of being a yearly subscriber – in addition to the standard membership benefits of ad-free viewing and exclusive articles and content – means access to game key giveaways, and we’ve got a brand new one for the occasion. We’ve got 100 keys for Citizen Sleeper, split across PlayStation and Nintendo Switch, to give away. These are redeemable in Europe only. (Citizen Sleeper is on GamePass on PC and Xbox if you want to play it there.)
To claim a key, go to the “My account” section of the website (top-right on desktop, three-lined menu on mobile) and find the Codes tab there. Then, scroll down and find the Citizen Sleeper giveaway and select the version of the game you want. You’ll probably also see codes for other games there – feel free to claim them.
Citizen Sleeper, if you don’t know, is the warm-hearted sci-fi story of a remote-controlled body (a Sleeper) finding their place and way on a somewhat lawless and forgotten space station known as The Eye. It’s a game about friendships and self-discovery, and the mystery of what lies within – both inside you and on the space station itself, right down in its wiry veins and programming bones. It’s gentle and relaxing, thoughtful and deep. Chris Tapsell Recommended Citizen Sleeper in his review (before we changed to a star-rating system).
Excitingly, we’re also on the cusp of a sequel. Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector is due early 2025 and, based on a recent demo, seems to be in fabulous shape. There have been significant changes – improvements – to how the game works. The heart and warmth is all still there but there’s now a more palpable sense of tension and jeopardy to go with it, which makes it more exciting. The RPG systems are more nuanced and developed; there’s just more to chew on in every regard. I can’t wait.
If you have any problems redeeming any of the above, please mention it in the comments below, or email me on [email protected]. Finally, thank you to everyone who has supported us this far – it means a lot.