These simple walk-and-fetch quests are short enough not to become grindy and tedious, but they are also rarely interesting and don’t offer any challenge.īeing the grumpy offline player that I am, I also don’t really see any advantage in there being other people in the game. The quality problem lies in the mechanics, and as far as I know this is a common issue in MMORPGs: from what I’ve seen, your actual tasks boil down to “go to destination X” and “pick up five of item Y”. The writing is nothing special, but mostly cute: your are helping with repairs around the stable, setting up obstacles for upcoming races, helping a family bury their internal feuding, and of course saving the stable from becoming a construction site because of a greedy businessman.
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You learn how to take care of your horse, how to participate in races around the stables and how to earn Jorvik Shillings, the free in-game currency. The map is quite sizeable, and after a few hours of playing I have only explored a tiny part of it. There are lots of games where you can only choose male characters and we want to show that girls can also be heroes.”Īfter a few introductory quests, you can roam freely around the central Moorland Stables and surrounding fields, with the whole island opening up to you over time as you unlock new areas. A section on the game’s help page addresses this choice by stating “Star Stable is a game with a focus on female heroines, but that doesn't mean that boys can't play Star Stable. Unlike many other horse games, SSO does not let you choose the gender of your player character. The story trailer and opening lore crawl speak of a prophecy according to which a girl on horseback will appear “to bring light and hope to those who believe that all is lost” and asks “Are you that girl?”.
In Star Stable, you and your horse are newly arrived visitors to the island of Jorvik.