Stars Arisen

Choice of Games LLC

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About this game

Reclaim your mother's throne with the mighty power of the skies! Bring down lightning on your foes, climb an endless tower, and call the ghosts of ages past to your aid. But will your sorcery save the city, or tear it apart?

"Stars Arisen" is a one-million-word interactive epic fantasy novel by Abigail C. Trevor, author of Heroes of Myth. It's entirely text-based, without graphics or sound effects, and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.

After a four-hundred-year reign over the city-state Kelestri, your mother, the immortal and all-powerful Sorceress of the Skies, was overthrown in a violent revolution. Called a tyrant and forced into exile, she was believed dead by all. Only you, her secret child and chosen heir, know the truth. Now, as the Sorceress's life begins to fade, she has given you a task: steal back the fallen stars that granted her power and reclaim her crown.

With the last vestiges of your mother's magic in your hands, you descend to Kelestri to find a city on the edge of change. Factions feud over its governance, riots fill the streets, and would-be sorcerers grasp at the remnants of magic in the city's secret corners. Seeing the rising new world, do you still intend to fulfill your mother's ancient vision? Will you restore the Sorceress's might, shatter it for good, or claim it for yourself?

* Play as male, female, or non-binary; gay, straight, bisexual, monogamous, polyamorous, asexual, and/or aromantic

* Wield the power of the stars to call down storms, shape the earth, ride the wind, raise the dead - or even to become immortal!
* Romance a radical orator, a savvy journalist, an outlaw mage, the heir to the rebellion, or the ghost of a master thief
* Use your political acumen to pit feuding factions against each other, or guide them to peace
* Uncover the stories that your mother wanted to bury: the secrets of her power, your ancestry, and the nature of magic itself
* Reclaim your mother’s place as ruler of Kelestri, strengthen the revolutionary government, or seize the throne for yourself!

With the magic of fallen stars in your hands, how high will you rise?

Ratings and reviews

Fantastic writing with a lot of divergence! Your character feels dynamic and the characters are written very distinctly! If I had any complaint it's that I wasn't able to explore the romantic relationships enough and I wish a bit more was written for them. Still, depending on how close you are to a person the rest of their dialogue changes for the rest of the game, so it makes up for the lack of one-on-one time in some areas. Amazing game!

Lovely writing. Really feels like the choices matter. I do get a bit confuse in some bits, will be playing through a couple more times to try to unlock as many achievements as possible. The app does keep on force restart for some reason I'm not sure if any one else experience that. Could just be my phone tho.

Great especially compared to other choice of games! Overall it's story and worldbuilding both felt interesting and unique. The characters seemed to behave true to their personalities even through changing story circumstances. It also punished the player appropriately for poor choices. For cons, I felt like some new physical objects were underexplained, and was annoyed by the lack of an option to take something stolen from the protagonist back at the epilogue where they have the power to do so.

What’s new

You can now choose a font in the Settings menu. Switch to Helvetica for crisp sans-serif text, or try the OpenDyslexic font, designed against some common symptoms of dyslexia. If you enjoy "Stars Arisen", please leave us a written review. It really helps!