About
Citizens of Earth is a turn-based RPG built in Unity in which you play the newly elected Vice President of the World and recruit ordinary townspeople as your party members, each with abilities tied to their everyday jobs. Drawing clear inspiration from Mother/EarthBound, it pairs a quirky comedic tone with a deep roster of over 40 recruitable citizens.
It launched in January 2015 to a mixed-to-positive reception, praised for its humor and creativity but criticized for early balance and bug issues. It was pulled from Steam in July 2023 when the publishing agreement between Sega and developer Eden Industries ended.
Screenshots
Official store screenshots from Steam — deckport links them, never rehosts. Hover to pause; click to preview.
Identity
Launch
- Binary
- Citizens of Earth.exe
- Needs files
- none beyond the binary
Proton
- Version
- GE-Proton
- Winetricks
- —
- ProtonDB
- ProtonDB Gold runs perfectly after tweaks
⚙ Setup notes
Delisted: Delisted Steam game (appid 258910), pulled 2023-07-14 when the Sega/Eden Industries publishing terms ended.
Proton: Turn-based Unity RPG; ProtonDB rates it gold and Unity titles of this era run clean under Proton (GE-Proton or Proton 7.0+/Experimental all work).
DRM: No GFWL/SecuROM/DRM to bypass and no widescreen hack needed.
Launch: Launch via the prefix, no special launch options required.
Install: deckport only configures the prefix; it never bundles or links the game files.
The one thing to know
Supply your own copy: deckport links nothing.
Online: Single-player turn-based RPG, so no servers to worry about.
Controller: Controller support is in-game and works best with an Xbox 360 / XInput-style pad — on the Deck, set the Steam Input config to a standard gamepad layout and it plays fine on the sticks/buttons. Note the game's pre-launch settings window does not take controller input, so if it appears you'll need to click *Play* with the trackpad/mouse before the pad takes over. Menus and combat are also fully keyboard/mouse navigable as a fallback.
Install: Confirm the exact .exe name from your install if Citizens of Earth.exe doesn't match (Unity ships one game .exe).
Community guides
Write-ups and threads from people who got this (or a similar) game running. deckport links to them — it doesn't reproduce them.
Get the artwork
deckport never hosts game images. Open this game on SteamGridDB, pick
the cover / hero / logo / icon you like, and drop them into the
game folder under .deckport-art/ before you push it to the
Deck. The importer files them under the right names automatically.
Run it on your Deck
Two files: the one-time importer (deckport.py) in your
Deck's home folder, and this game's install helper. Copy the game
into ~/Games and run the helper with Steam closed — it
writes the recipe (binary, launch options, Proton version)
and registers the shortcut with artwork.