Retro Replay Review

Gameplay

Citizens of Space gives you the kind of mission that is immediately easy to buy into: Earth is gone, nobody important seems particularly bothered, and you have to do the diplomatic legwork yourself. Recruiting citizens becomes the natural backbone of the adventure, and the game has enough confidence in its oddball premise to make that feel like more than collecting bodies for a party.

The cast is the strongest argument for sticking with it. The Athlete can adopt different stances, the Time Cop leans on fast attacks and speed-based abilities, and the Sheriff mixes multi-target shots with defensive support. Those are distinct enough jobs to make you think about whom you want involved, rather than treating every recruit as another interchangeable damage dealer.

Some of the best character ideas are also the dumbest in the right way. A robot confectioner who has combat hardware repurposed for baking, or a strict-pacifist miner whose rock smashing can still solve an enemy problem, fit the game’s cheerful commitment to cosmic nonsense. You will get more out of Citizens of Space if that humor makes you grin, because personality is doing as much work here as the RPG progression.

Graphics

The diagonal-down viewpoint keeps the action framed like a classic RPG, with the focus on following your group and the creatures standing in its way. Citizens of Space is a comedy-driven science-fiction game, and its visuals serve that broad, character-centered setup rather than pulling attention away from the people you recruit.

Story

There is a smart comic engine at the center of the story. Becoming Earth’s ambassador should be a ceremonial career win, but your opening speech turns into a crisis when Earth disappears from the galaxy. The fact that other ambassadors barely care gives the rescue mission a nicely petty bureaucratic edge.

You are not saving the planet because destiny selected you. You are doing your job while trying to convince a galaxy of strangers that Earth is worth the trouble. That framing makes the recruiting premise feel thematically appropriate, and it gives the Ambassador’s charisma a clearer purpose than the usual blank-slate hero routine.

The supporting citizens sound built for jokes first, but their backgrounds still give them a little flavor beyond a combat assignment. Captain Clamp’s faded glory, the Athlete’s career pivot after a prosthetic-related ban, and the Geneticist’s connection to an earlier Earth disaster all make the galaxy feel populated by people with their own strange baggage.

Overall Experience

Citizens of Space is for you if a playful JRPG adventure sounds better than a solemn space epic. Its missing-Earth premise is ridiculous on purpose, and the game succeeds most when it keeps introducing another recruit whose profession, history, or battle specialty is just strange enough to be memorable.

Do not come in expecting the galaxy-spanning plot to be treated with grandeur. The joke is that you are trying to carry out an enormous responsibility through the slow machinery of interstellar bureaucracy, alongside a crew that includes athletes, robots, law officers, and time cops. That tone will either keep the journey buoyant for you or make it feel too lightweight.

At its best, the game turns party-building into a reason to meet more weird citizens and try out their specialties. The result is a likable RPG with a strong comic voice and a premise that never needs to pretend it is cooler than it is. For official details, visit the Citizens of Space official site.

Retro Replay Score

7.1/10