Sea of Stars Trivia
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This Sea of Stars trivia quiz has 49 free questions with answers on Sabotage Studio's 2023 retro RPG. It covers the story from the first Dweller hunt to the true ending: the Solstice Warriors and their Eclipse Magic, Garl the warrior-cook, Seraï, Resh'an, the betrayal, the World Eaters and what Valere and Zale finally become. It also digs into how the game was made: the March 2020 Kickstarter, the guest composer from Chrono Trigger, the 'SNES plus plus' soundtrack, the six months spent on lighting, the day-one Game Pass and PlayStation Plus launch, the awards, the Dawn of Equinox update and the circus world of Throes of the Watchmaker. The easy questions ask who made the game and what Garl does for a living; the hard ones want the Famitsu score, the name Erlina takes when transformed, the investment fund behind the studio and the artist behind the artbook. It suits anyone who has finished the game, is midway through a co-op run, or just wants to test what they remember from the Kickstarter days. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's article on the game, the official Sea of Stars and Sabotage Studio sites, the Steam page and the studio's press releases, and each question carries the sentence that backs it up.
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Q 01Which staple of classic RPGs did the makers of Sea of Stars deliberately leave out?
Random encounters
Random encounters: enemies wait in plain sight on the map and fights break out right where the party stands, with no cut to a separate battle screen and no need to grind.
Q 02The studio behind Sea of Stars is based in which Canadian provincial capital?
Quebec City
Quebec City is home to the team, which bills itself as 'an indie studio from Quebec City'; its 2024 update even added a Québécois French translation 'for our Québec folks'.
Q 03What is the name of the power that only the Solstice Warriors can wield in Sea of Stars?
Eclipse Magic
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.
Q 04Which celestial body is Valere's elemental affinity in Sea of Stars?
Moon
Moon is Valere's element and Sun is Zale's; hitting an enemy with the element shown on its 'locks' breaks them, weakening or cancelling the attack it is charging.
Q 05What are the otherworldly monsters that Valere and Zale set out to destroy called?
Dwellers
Dwellers are monsters made by the villain; after the heroes fell the Dweller of Woe, its remains are used to revive another, which goes on to destroy the port town of Brisk.
Q 06What is the Fleshmancer, the villain of Sea of Stars?
An immortal alchemist
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.
Q 07What is the profession of Garl, the heroes' childhood friend in Sea of Stars?
Warrior-cook
Warrior-cook is Garl's official title: born with no special powers, he joins his two friends anyway, takes hits behind a cauldron lid and cooks the party's meals.
Q 08What is Seraï's occupation when she joins the party in Sea of Stars?
Assassin
Assassin is the masked Seraï's trade when she joins, striking through portals she cuts with her daggers; her real aim, recruiting Solstice Warriors for a fight far from home, only emerges later.
Q 09Which Sea of Stars character is the villain's former associate and rival, yet refuses to fight his creations?
Resh'an
Resh'an joins the party but keeps to a rule of never striking his old partner's creations; when Seraï hurls his weapon at one anyway, the villain arrives in person to answer it.
Q 10Which ancient spirit joins the party after being given a new body of Living Glass?
B'st
B'st spent centuries as a formless lost soul before an ally bound him into a golem of Living Glass; in the true ending he takes Garl's place and shape at the fatal moment so the past stays intact.
Q 11What name does the Solstice Warrior Erlina take once she is transformed into a demonic being?
Elysan'darëlle
Elysan'darëlle is the name the transformed Erlina takes after the villain remakes her as his lieutenant; the party fights her at his lair.
Q 12Which character betrays the party alongside Erlina after their first great victory in Sea of Stars?
Brugaves
Brugaves turns on the party with Erlina the moment their quarry falls: the pair summon the villain's acolytes, who use the remains to raise another monster.
Q 13What is the title of Moraine, the senior Solstice Warrior who trained the heroes?
Headmaster
Headmaster Moraine runs Zenith Academy, where he trained Valere and Zale; he later fights beside them against their first great foe, boosting their damage and healing them.
Q 21Which composer agreed to write guest tracks for Sea of Stars midway through its crowdfunding campaign?
Yasunori Mitsuda
Yasunori Mitsuda, who scored Chrono Trigger, said yes after the studio simply emailed him a pitch deck and sample tracks; his pieces include a battle theme and Seraï's theme.
Q 22Who composed the majority of the Sea of Stars soundtrack?
Eric W. Brown
Eric W. Brown, who performs chiptune as Rainbowdragoneyes, wrote most of the score; he gave each island a signature instrument, such as pan flutes or chimes, so every place sounds distinct.
Q 23According to Sea of Stars lore, on which day of the year was Valere born?
Winter solstice
Q 14In Sea of Stars, what apocalyptic beings do the villain's monsters become if they grow unchecked?
World Eaters
World Eaters are what the villain's creations grow into if no one stops them; the story's last battle pits the heroes against one in an arcade-style space shooter.
Q 15What do Valere and Zale become at the end of Sea of Stars?
Guardian gods
Guardian gods is what Valere and Zale become at the close, ascending to watch over the world and leaving their mortal friends behind.
Q 16In the true ending of Sea of Stars, how often do Valere and Zale return to visit Garl?
Once a year, on his birthday
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.
Q 17What is the Sea of Stars in the game's own story?
A passage used to cross between worlds
A passage used to cross between worlds is what the title names: a starlit sea reached from the centre of the heroes' own world, which the party sails to chase the villain.
Q 18What kind of place is Seraï's homeland in Sea of Stars?
A technologically advanced planet
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.
Q 19Which crowdfunding site did the studio use to reveal Sea of Stars to the public in March 2020?
Kickstarter
Kickstarter hosted both the reveal and the fundraising; backers unlocked its final stretch goal, a free expansion, which the studio delivered five years later.
Q 20The 2020 crowdfunding campaign for Sea of Stars raised CA$1.6 million from roughly how many backers?
About 25,000
About 25,000 backers (25,589 in all) pledged an average of roughly CA$64 each; the studio still took outside investment the following year so it would not have to cut content.
Winter solstice is Valere's birthday and the summer solstice is Zale's; only a child born on one of those two days can be trained as a Solstice Warrior, hence the order's name.
Q 24Sea of Stars launched day one on which two subscription services?
Xbox Game Pass and PlayStation Plus
Xbox Game Pass and PlayStation Plus both carried it at launch, thought to be a first for the two rival services; it still sold 100,000 copies in its first day.
Q 25Which award did Sea of Stars take home from Geoff Keighley's December 2023 ceremony?
Best Independent Game
Best Independent Game went to the RPG its makers had wanted to build all along but judged too ambitious for a first project, so they made a platformer first.
Q 26What was the name of the free November 2024 update that reworked the combat and prologue of Sea of Stars?
Dawn of Equinox
Dawn of Equinox arrived free on November 12, 2024, just over a year after launch; besides new difficulty settings, its revised prologue gets players into a fight much sooner.
Q 27Which mode, first teased as 'Single Player+', reached Sea of Stars in a 2024 update?
Three-player co-op
Three-player co-op began as a modest 'Single Player+' idea and grew into a full mode: friends on one couch each steer a party member through the whole story.
Q 28What did the November 2024 update call the new enemy locks whose types stay hidden until players reveal them?
Mystery Locks
Mystery Locks hide what breaks an enemy's spell until players test damage types or use skills that reveal them; the same update let Combo Points carry over between battles.
Q 29The difficulty options added to Sea of Stars in 2024 are presets built from which in-game items?
Relics
Relics are the game's switchable modifiers: the Story preset turns on the Amulet of Storytelling, which fully heals the party after every battle, and any relic can still be flipped at will.
Q 30What is the name of the free Sea of Stars expansion released on May 20, 2025?
Throes of the Watchmaker
Throes of the Watchmaker began as the last stretch goal of the game's 2020 crowdfunding drive and arrived free five years later; it opens only on a save that has already rolled the credits.