In Stellar Bewitching: Remastered you play a teenage witch with one goal in mind…hooking yourself a boyfriend for Venusia’s Day! How hard can that be?


A free-to-play, turn-based rpg set in the universe of Planet Kardel in Crasper City lives a Farian teenage witch named Elya. Elya has a big problem, Venusia’s Day is fast approaching (thee day of love and romance) and she has yet to find a boyfriend. The problem is she told all her friends she has one…oh, the web we weave. So now Elya has no choice but to venture into the Limbo Realm, along with her trusted familiar Floryn to kidnap …uh I mean obtain her an actual boy to pretend he is her boyfriend.

Along the way they recruit a bada** penguin named Pokie. Alright not the most menacing name for a blade-master. You also end up meeting a contender for a possible pretend boyfriend named Ivan, a spirited 17 year old human from the Farseen Tribe on a mission to prove himself and find his destiny.

I really like Floryn, she is a firecracker and flirts like crazy. I love when she’s checking out the hobbyist (or wandering salesman)...”I would love to check out your stuff”. *wink


Combat in this game is a side-view battle system (turn-based). Inflict weakness on enemies to reduce their shield strength, stun them and then finish them off. The difficulty can be pretty daunting to be honest. It would be nice if this game had a difficulty setting. The only settings in the game are for display options, dash options, battle settings such as animation speed and audio settings.

The game does support controllers but I used keyboard and mouse for my play-through. For the most part the game is played with mainly the mouse only and the keyboard more for changing the quantity of items in the shop (arrow keys).


Visually the art style is cute. Hand drawn characters set in an old-school style rpg. The soundtrack is also what you’d expect in an old-school rpg. In this setting it works. Synth tunes with a sci-fi pop feel.


Now I am recommending this game for those who like a challenge because this game is difficult. My biggest gripe with it is that you have no control over the difficulty settings. If you did have any control I would suggest this game for everyone but sadly you don't.

If they honestly changed that one setting it would be a lot more fun for a lot more people. The game has a lot going for it. It is funny, cute and has some story lore built into it. Hopefully the developer takes this gripe to heart for their future games and puts in difficulty settings. 🎮

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Pros:
Cute and quirky characters
Some funny moments and banter
Great visuals, minus a few stylistic clashes
Solid combat through most of the game, good skill variety
Not a long time commitment, but feels like a complete story
Light puzzle elements in a few spots

Cons:
Intro and late game drag a bit
Some balancing quirks
Not enough puzzles!
Gear feels like an afterthought

Overall this is a fun and unique game that I've never played anything quite like. It's very much a style that only this developer can pull off consistently, and they do it very well.
I helped playtest some of the previous builds and can also attest to the fact that the dev is very open to feedback.

Recommended, solid 8 / 10 now that some extra polishing and re-balancing has taken place.

This story happens during the Rave Heart party's first visit to Planet Kardel, where they are chased down as fugitives. Fortunately for Elya, she has nothing to do with the grand political struggle between Ellemine and Vorakia. Instead, she has more important things to worry about, like getting a boyfriend for Venusia's Day because she lied to her friends about having one. Her slime familiar recommends finding a handsome guy in the Limbo Realm to brainwash into being a temporary boyfriend, which seems like a strange place to do so, but since this boyfriend is likely from a different dimension or planet, it'll be much harder for them to sue I guess. She does end up finding a candidate, Ivan, who turns out to have good chemistry with her, so hopefully they might not have to pretend to be a couple in the long run (nudge nudge wink wink).

Things get a bit darker when the party recruits Pokie, a cute penguin with a sword and some war crimes under his belt. He's definitely an edgelord compared to most other Starmage protagonists, but he also has a good character arc if you manage to find the secret boss. Even if you don't and end up getting the normal ending, you do get a nice twist reveal about his motivations. He certainly subverts the usual trope of the beast/birdman knight in shining armor, which caught me off guard as a result. I don't know if this was the case in the current version of the game, but I think Pokie should have gotten more violent CG scenes for some of his actions, such as the cutscene after the final boss on the normal route.

As for the antagonist, Sedrick, he's definitely not treated with the same gravitas as Vorakia, since he's the villain of a relatively more light-hearted story and he doesn't have the political manipulation skills that made Vorakia such an effective villain. Still, the fact that Floryn was alarmed by his archon summon implies that he, or at least his archon, could have become a threat rivaling Vorakia and the Ether Demons, but not much more is explained. At least it's satisfying to watch Pokie put him in his place.

As a warning, when I played and recorded the game, I found that the normal ending has context that is needed to better understand a short cutscene from the good ending. I have no idea if this is the case with the current release of the game, but I recommend seeing both endings, if only to gain appreciation for how you changed Pokie's life for the better.


The game features a CTB system similar to Octopath Traveler, and you can stun an enemy by hitting their weaknesses enough times. However, stunning them has no effect on your DPS and enemies tend to have only one or two weaknesses each, so it's mostly optional. It can be pretty handy against later bosses, since those bosses have 2-3 actions per turn.

Like in Heroes of the Seasons, you have a lot of skills that are instant cast, which means they don't use up your turn. This makes it more efficient to juggle buffs and debuffs, which you will need to keep track of in order to keep up with the later game difficulty. It does feel overall easier compared to Heroes of the Seasons, since you have four party members towards the end and you can use Pokie's Wrathful Edge to bump that up to 5 actions per turn. I personally like to have Wrathful Edge cast on Elya so she can spam support and healing skills to keep everyone alive through even the toughest bosses, which feels like the meta strat.

There are no towns in this game because you're in Limbo, but the traveling shopkeeper has fairly low prices so you can basically treat him like a walking inn anyways.

8.5/10
Overall, it's a fairly simple story, but it works and Pokie is a well-written edgelord. The gameplay is well-balanced, but if you want to create an artificial hard mode for yourself, you should designate someone other than Elya to be your Wrathful Edge target and go for a more glass cannon strategy.