51 Fun Facts About Sea of Stars

Which indie developer made and published Sea of Stars?

Sabotage Studio developed and published it as only its second game, following a ninja platformer that won Best Debut Indie Game at The Game Awards 2018.

The studio behind Sea of Stars is based in which Canadian provincial capital?

Quebec City, the provincial capital, is the studio's home; co-founder Thierry Boulanger directed both of its games from there.

What is the name of the power that only the Solstice Warriors can wield in Sea of Stars?

Eclipse Magic fuses solar and lunar power, and only Solstice Warriors can wield it; outside battle the pair can also shift the time of day to solve puzzles.

Which celestial body is Valere's elemental affinity in Sea of Stars?

Zale takes the Sun; using the right element breaks the 'locks' on an enemy's charging attack.

What are the otherworldly monsters that Valere and Zale set out to destroy called?

Dwellers are the Fleshmancer's abominations; the first that Valere and Zale are sent to destroy is the Dweller of Woe.

What is the Fleshmancer, the villain of Sea of Stars?

An immortal alchemist, the Fleshmancer gained eternal life alongside a former associate, then fell out with him as he turned misanthropic and began breeding monsters.

What is the profession of Garl, the heroes' childhood friend in Sea of Stars?

Warrior-cook is how Garl describes himself: he tags along with no magic at all, fights with kitchen gear and keeps the party fed.

What is Seraï's occupation when she joins the party in Sea of Stars?

Assassin is how the masked Seraï introduces herself when she joins; her true purpose, recruiting Solstice Warriors for a fight far from home, only emerges later.

Which alchemist, discovered on Mesa Island, turns out to be the villain's rival and former associate?

Resh'an, the alchemist met on Mesa Island, shares the villain's immortality and joins the party as a playable member, his knowledge of his old associate's schemes guiding the heroes.

Which ancient spirit, given a new body by the alchemist, fights alongside the party on Seraï's home planet?

B'st, an ancient spirit housed in a new body by the party's alchemist ally, joins on Seraï's world; in the true ending it even stands in for Garl at his final moments to avoid a time paradox.

What name does the Solstice Warrior Erlina take once she is transformed into a demonic being?

Elysan'darëlle is the name the transformed Erlina takes after the villain remakes her as his lieutenant; the party fights her at his lair.

Which fellow Solstice Warrior betrays the party alongside Erlina after their first great victory?

Brugaves joins Erlina in turning on the party after the Dweller of Woe falls, making off with its remains for the villain's cult.

What is the title of Moraine, the senior Solstice Warrior who trained the heroes?

Headmaster is Moraine's title at Zenith Academy, where he trained Valere and Zale as Solstice Warriors; he stays loyal when two of his senior warriors turn traitor.

If the villain's monsters grow unchecked in a universe, what apocalyptic beings do they become?

World Eaters are what the villain's monsters become when left to consume a world unchecked; he seeds them across countless universes, which is why Solstice Warriors exist to hunt them.

What do Valere and Zale become at the end of Sea of Stars?

Guardian gods is what Valere and Zale become at the close, ascending to watch over the world and leaving their mortal friends behind.

In the true ending of Sea of Stars, how often do Valere and Zale return to visit Garl?

Once a year, on his birthday, the two ascended heroes come back to visit Garl, whose death the true ending undoes through a trip into the past.

What is the Sea of Stars, in the story of the game named after it?

A passage used to cross between worlds is what the Sea of Stars is: a starlit expanse the party crosses to reach other worlds, and the origin of the game's title.

What kind of place is Seraï's homeland, which the party reaches after crossing the Sea of Stars?

A technologically advanced planet is Seraï's home, a world of machines far from the heroes' archipelago, which she left to recruit Solstice Warriors capable of liberating her people.

In which month and year did Sabotage launch the Kickstarter campaign for Sea of Stars?

March 2020 was the launch month of the Kickstarter, which hit its goal within hours and closed well above it; the campaign was how Sabotage first revealed the game.

Roughly how many backers did the Sea of Stars Kickstarter finish with?

Over 25,000 backers pledged more than CA$1.6 million by the campaign's close; the studio later took outside investment so it could self-publish without cutting content.

Which Chrono Trigger composer agreed to write tracks for Sea of Stars mid-Kickstarter?

Yasunori Mitsuda, whose Chrono Trigger score shaped the game's musical ambitions, signed on during the Kickstarter to write guest tracks, an announcement that gave the campaign a real boost.

Who composed the majority of the Sea of Stars soundtrack?

Eric W. Brown, who performs chiptune as Rainbowdragoneyes, wrote the bulk of the score after also scoring the studio's first game.

On what date was Sea of Stars released?

August 29, 2023 was launch day, with Switch, PS4, PS5, Windows, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S versions all arriving at once.

Sea of Stars launched day one on which two subscription services?

Xbox Game Pass and PlayStation Plus both carried it from day one; that double debut helped push it past several million players within months of launch.

How many copies did Sea of Stars sell in its first week?

Over 250,000 copies sold in the first week, the studio announced, after the game passed 100,000 within its first 24 hours on sale.

Which award did Sea of Stars take home from Geoff Keighley's December 2023 ceremony?

Best Independent Game was its win at The Game Awards 2023, where it was also nominated for Best Role Playing Game and lost that one to Baldur's Gate 3.

What was the name of the free Sea of Stars update released on November 12, 2024?

Dawn of Equinox arrived as a free update on November 12, 2024, adding local co-op, a reworked combat system and a revised prologue.

Up to how many players can play through the whole Sea of Stars story together after the 2024 update?

Three players can share the full story in local co-op since the update, each controlling one of the three active party members.

What did the November 2024 update call the system in which players discover how to break each enemy's spells?

Mystery Locks hide an enemy's lock types until you hit it with the right damage; the same update let Combo Points carry over between battles, so players could open a fight with a special move.

The difficulty options added to Sea of Stars in 2024 are presets built from which in-game items?

Relics, the optional modifiers the game already used to tune challenge, were bundled into the new difficulty presets so players could pick a level without hunting each relic down.

What is the name of the free Sea of Stars expansion released on May 20, 2025?

Throes of the Watchmaker, released free on May 20, 2025, sends the heroes into a miniature clockwork world for a circus-themed side adventure.

What is the name of the miniature clockwork world visited in the 2025 expansion?

Horloge, simply the French word for clock, is the miniature clockwork world the party enters; a cursed carnival is terrorising its people.

In the 2025 circus-themed expansion, Zale must cast his sword aside and become what?

A Juggler is Zale's circus persona in the expansion: he sets his sword aside and fights with juggling props, gaining a wholly new set of skills and combos.

What circus role does Valere take on in the 2025 expansion so that her lunar magic can manifest?

Acrobat is Valere's circus role in the expansion: only through acrobatics can her lunar magic manifest, and she gains an entirely new set of attacks, damage types, skills and combos.

On which island do Valere and Zale grow up and train at Zenith Academy?

Evermist Island is home to the village of Mooncradle and to Zenith Academy, where the two Solstice Warriors train before setting out on their first hunt.

What is the name of the 'infamous' tabletop game players can sit down to in the taverns of Sea of Stars?

Wheels is the tavern tabletop game, played against local champions with spinning reels of heroes; it sits alongside sailing, cooking and fishing among the side activities.

What is the Sea of Stars combat mechanic where pressing the button in sync with an animation boosts or reduces damage?

Timed hits let a well-timed button press boost an attack or blunt an incoming one, a mechanic lifted from a classic SNES role-playing game the director cited.

Which SNES game's timed inputs did Sea of Stars director Thierry Boulanger cite for its interactive combat?

Super Mario RPG supplied the timed-input idea; Chrono Trigger inspired the way battles sit inside the world, and Illusion of Gaia the sense that the world had a history.

Sea of Stars is a distant prequel to which earlier game by the same studio?

The Messenger, Sabotage's 2018 ninja platformer, shares its world: Sea of Stars is set long before it, and the creative director planned the two as one universe.

Which company published Sabotage's first game, a 2018 ninja platformer, before Sea of Stars?

Devolver Digital published Sabotage's 2018 debut; its ninja hero shifts between 8-bit and 16-bit eras, and its success set up the studio to self-publish the follow-up.

The Sabotage team spent the first half-year of Sea of Stars development building what?

Dynamic lighting for pixel art took the team's first half-year: solar and lunar magic was central to the story, so they wanted light to behave believably on 2D sprites.

Which video-game investment fund backed Sea of Stars in 2021, letting Sabotage self-publish with every feature intact?

Kowloon Nights, the games investment fund, put money into Sabotage in 2021; the studio said the backing was needed to ship the design without cutting content.

Whose concept art fills the official Sea of Stars artbook published by 3dtotal in May 2024?

Bryce Kho, the game's art director, supplied the concept art; the 3dtotal volume collects his character sheets, environments and paintings from the production.

Which YouTuber, known as The Completionist, had a cameo character removed from Sea of Stars in December 2023?

Jirard Khalil's NPC, 'Jirard the Constructionist', was cut by Sabotage in December 2023 after allegations that his Open Hand Foundation had sat on charity funds.

How many party members can the player recruit in Sea of Stars' base game?

Six heroes join across the base game; only a trio fights at once, and reserves can be swapped in mid-battle without losing a turn.

What can characters do with the ingredients they pick while exploring Sea of Stars?

Cook them at campfires to make food items is the loop: recipes turn foraged and fished ingredients into dishes that heal or revive in battle.

On what date did Sea of Stars receive a physical edition for Switch, PlayStation and Xbox Series X/S?

May 10, 2024 brought the boxed edition for Switch, PlayStation and Xbox Series X/S, about eight months after the digital launch.

In what year was the studio behind Sea of Stars founded?

2016 is when Thierry Boulanger and Martin Brouard founded Sabotage; they judged an RPG too complex for a first project, so it waited until their platformer had proved itself.

What is the visual style of Sea of Stars, modelled on SNES-era RPGs such as Chrono Trigger?

Characters can nonetheless swim, climb and vault freely rather than moving on a grid.

How do enemies in Sea of Stars signal when they will next act?

With countdown timers measured in player turns is how enemies telegraph their next move; battles are turn-based with no clock, so the studio wanted thought over reflexes.

What is 'live mana' in Sea of Stars combat?

Energy released by attacks that characters absorb to add elemental damage is live mana: hitting enemies leaves orbs, and absorbing one lets a plain physical strike carry lunar or solar damage, which matters for breaking locks.