Sea of Stars Trivia
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This Sea of Stars trivia quiz has 51 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 indie developer made and published Sea of Stars?
Sabotage Studio
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.
Q 02The studio behind Sea of Stars is based in which Canadian provincial capital?
Quebec City
Quebec City, the provincial capital, is the studio's home; co-founder Thierry Boulanger directed both of its games from there.
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
Zale takes the Sun; using the right element breaks the 'locks' on an enemy's charging attack.
Q 05What are the otherworldly monsters that Valere and Zale set out to destroy called?
Dwellers
Dwellers are the Fleshmancer's abominations; the first that Valere and Zale are sent to destroy is the Dweller of Woe.
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 how Garl describes himself: he tags along with no magic at all, fights with kitchen gear and keeps the party fed.
Q 08What is Seraï's occupation when she joins the party in Sea of Stars?
Assassin
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.
Q 09Which alchemist, discovered on Mesa Island, turns out to be the villain's rival and former associate?
Resh'an
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.
Q 10Which ancient spirit, given a new body by the alchemist, fights alongside the party on Seraï's home planet?
B'st
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.
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 fellow Solstice Warrior betrays the party alongside Erlina after their first great victory?
Brugaves
Brugaves joins Erlina in turning on the party after the Dweller of Woe falls, making off with its remains for the villain's cult.
Q 13What is the title of Moraine, the senior Solstice Warrior who trained the heroes?
Headmaster
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.
Q 21Which Chrono Trigger composer agreed to write tracks for Sea of Stars mid-Kickstarter?
Yasunori Mitsuda
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.
Q 22Who composed the majority of the Sea of Stars soundtrack?
Eric W. Brown
Eric W. Brown, who performs chiptune as Rainbowdragoneyes, wrote the bulk of the score after also scoring the studio's first game.
Q 23On what date was Sea of Stars released?
August 29, 2023
August 29, 2023 was launch day, with Switch, PS4, PS5, Windows, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S versions all arriving at once.
Q 14If the villain's monsters grow unchecked in a universe, what apocalyptic beings do they become?
World Eaters
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.
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 story of the game named after it?
A passage used to cross between worlds
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.
Q 18What kind of place is Seraï's homeland, which the party reaches after crossing the 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 19In which month and year did Sabotage launch the Kickstarter campaign for Sea of Stars?
March 2020
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.
Q 20Roughly how many backers did the Sea of Stars Kickstarter finish with?
Over 25,000
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.
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 from day one; that double debut helped push it past several million players within months of launch.
Q 25How many copies did Sea of Stars sell in its first week?
Over 250,000
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.
Q 26Which award did Sea of Stars take home from Geoff Keighley's December 2023 ceremony?
Best Independent Game
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.
Q 27What was the name of the free Sea of Stars update released on November 12, 2024?
Dawn of Equinox
Dawn of Equinox arrived as a free update on November 12, 2024, adding local co-op, a reworked combat system and a revised prologue.
Q 28Up to how many players can play through the whole Sea of Stars story together after the 2024 update?
Three
Three players can share the full story in local co-op since the update, each controlling one of the three active party members.
Q 29What did the November 2024 update call the system in which players discover how to break each enemy's spells?
Mystery Locks
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.
Q 30The difficulty options added to Sea of Stars in 2024 are presets built from which in-game items?
Relics
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.