Pastelia Stories

Early access since Mar 2017

"Pastelia Stories" is a turn-based JRPG. You will be summoned into Pastelia world, and here begins your wonderful journey. Explore big world just like you want, pick any out of 30 companions, chose one of the story lines and factions to find your way back home.

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Evaluation

Pastelia Stories launched into Early Access on March 16, 2017. The solo developer (with occasional collaborators) shipped a series of meaningful content updates throughout 2017 — versions 0.28, 0.31, 0.35, and 0.36 — adding companion storylines, new quest chains, battle system overhauls, and art updates. A feature patch followed in November 2017 (v0.4), and a small content update in February 2018 (v0.41). Throughout 2017 and into 2018, the developer consistently outlined ambitious plans for the full release: main story Chapter 3, expanding from 30 to 60+ companions, over 1 million words of dialogue, CG artwork, English and Japanese translations, Steam trading cards, and more. On January 9, 2019, the developer published a candid status update explaining that development had stalled significantly. Their day job at a mobile game company had suffered major financial losses in 2018, forcing them to deprioritize the game. Collaborators had lost momentum and largely stopped contributing. Art resources were difficult and expensive to obtain. The developer stated they had not given up but acknowledged development was at an all-time low, with only themselves continuing to work on the game. That January 9, 2019 post is the last official communication from the developer on record. No updates, patches, announcements, or developer posts have appeared since then. The game remains available for purchase in Early Access, and its store description still describes the full version goals (60+ companions, 1 million+ words, English/Japanese support) as future plans — none of which have been delivered. Given the substantial undelivered content promises and over seven years of silence since the last developer communication, the status of ongoing development is deeply uncertain.

Evidence

Developer posts a candid status update describing severe development difficulties in 2018: day job pressures, collaborators dropping off, art resource shortages, and near-zero update velocity. States they have not given up but development is at its lowest point. This is the last official communication from the developer.

news post · Jan 9, 2019 source ambiguous

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Store description promises a full version with 60+ companions (vs. 30 in Early Access), over 1 million words of dialogue, CG artwork, English and Japanese translations, and Steam trading cards — none of which have been delivered.

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Details

Developer

Maru Project Develop Team

Publisher

Maru Project Develop Team

Achievements

Platform

Windows

Controller

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Steam Deck

Not rated

Players

Single-player

RPG Strategy Adventure JRPG Indie Early Access Anime Turn-Based Turn-Based Strategy Open World Turn-Based Combat Story Rich Dungeon Crawler Visual Novel Nudity

About this game

Game Info

Title: Pastelia Stories

Developer: Maru Project Develop Team
Genre: JRPG
Playtime: 10～30 hours (Would expend after upgrates)

Storyline

You will take a role of an ordinary person, but once, something entered your dream and sent you to the unknown world. In that world you will have a mission, and this mission to save this world.

Featuring

- Combination of traditional and innovational RPG systems, which grants high degree of play style flexibility
- Early Access version of the game have over 400,000 words worth of dialogs and story, full version of the game will have over 1 million words!(In Chinese)
- More than 30 companions in Early Access version and more than 60 companions in Full version of the game!
- Love story lines: currently there just a few story lines and no CG, but we will add more in future. Most characters could fall in love with both male and female.
- Combat system is easy to learn, but hard to master.
- Hundreds of skill combinations and randomly generated equipment
- In future will be available Steam trading cards, achievements, emoji, etc.

From “Pastelia Stories” developer

After 2 years working on this project alone, game is finally online. Hard to tell that Maru Project Team is actually just 1 person. Who knows, maybe more people will join to Maru or it will remain 1 person. Recently one artist is cooperated with me, now we can be more productive.
Thanks to all of those who intend to buy EA version of “Pastelia Stories”! Thanks to all of those who don’t mind to play a game without CG, with no Visual Effects and without completed animation! We will improve everything and add even more on top of this!
First things first, game is available to download now, this is good. Next step is improving art aspects of the game. During this stage, we will open test version to test our new art. At least we need to finish new OP, cut scenes and other transactions, by doing this we will improve gaming experience. Then we will work on characters’ facial expressions, characters design details, combat visual effects. Of course everything will be change according players’ feedback.
And many more other aspects of the game…
So much stuff to do… Eh… Just give me some time haha