Star Stable Online

Summary
Description from the official website:


 * Ride into an exciting world. Welcome to Jorvik, an enchanting island full of endless adventure. Together with your very own horse, you become part of a magical story as you explore a fantastic world from the saddle.
 * Care for and train your horses. Ride, race, and care for your very own horses. Jorvik is home to a huge variety of different horses, from beautiful real-life breeds to spectacular magical steeds, each with its own unique look and personality.
 * Play with your friends. Make friends with players from all over the world, meet up and share your adventures. You can ride together, chat and even create your own Riding Clubs.
 * Solve quests and mysteries. There are lots of intriguing characters and thrilling mysteries waiting for you in Star Stable Online. Solve the quests and experience the epic story together with the people of Jorvik.

Star Stable Online Official Trailer

Game Design
The graphics are stylised 3D with a semi-cartoony, handpainted look.

Horse model
Horse models are classed in three generations. Only generations 3 models are debbuged and upped to date, and generation 1, 1.5 and 2 models will be progressively unavailable to purchase in game.

All coats are handpainting.

Create a new horse model take about 12 weeks. Each model has about 36 animations.

Known animations are:
 * Gait: Walk, Trot, Canter, Gallop, Fast gallop, Reverse
 * Jump: Jumping at canter, Jumping at gallop, Jumping at fast gallop
 * Stop: Hard stop, Rearing
 * Idle: Idle with rider (6 animations including grazing), Idle without rider (5 animations)
 * Care: Feed, Groom, Hoof Pick, Pet
 * Other: Turn at standill (left & right), Mount (left & right), Dismount (left & right), Dance
 * Special (only specified breed): Special gait, Special move

Table with animations

Horse breeds
Horses breeds are based on real horse breeds, except for some breeds as the Jorvik Warmblood and the Jorvik Wild Horse. Some breeds have special coats, and some horse, named magical horses, can have two coats: one magical and one no-magical.

The table below presents briefly Generation 3 Horse Breeds. More infos about horse breeds can be find in Jorvikipedia for general infos, or in the Star Stable Database for prices, locations or stats.

Other Equines
Other equines visible in Star Stable Online.

Some donkeys are located in Starshine Ranch, and are part of "Mary's Lost Animals" quests. Donkeys are also collectables in Jorvik Stables. They are pettable during the Spring Equestrian Festival at Jorvik Stables, but are not rideable. They exist in four variations: Brown, Grey Dark Grey and White. They have five animations: idle, walk, canter, sleep, pet.

Story
The story begins a few years after the Starshine Legacy, Star Academy, and Star Stable games. The player arrives at Moorland Stables, ready for summer riding camp. But more adventures will arrive in the magical world of Jorvik.



in spoiler, describe Soul Riders

Gameplay
The game is played in third-person perspective, although by changing the camera settings, you can achieve a fake first-person mode.

Caring for a horse will improve its mood, which in turn improves its speed and stamina. Horses cannot die from neglect.

There are a variety of collectable items. Some give quest rewards upon completing certain milestones, and others are there simply to encourage exploration.

Riding Mechanics
The horse is controlled via the arrow keys or WASD. Pressing up or W increases speed, while down and S slow it down. The remaining arrow keys, or S and D turn the horse left and right respectively. Pressing Spacebar at a canter or gallop will make the horse jump. Pressing X will stop the horse, with a rear or a hard stop depending on its gait, or if the horse is already stopped, is used to dismount.

Some horses have special gaits, which are typically triggered by walking, then holding down Shift while speeding up. Some horses also have extra moves, which are typically accessed by pressing Spacebar while the horse is standing still.

Riding gameplay primarily focuses on cross-country style racing, with some show jumping mixed in. The goal is always the same: complete the circuit as fast as possible. Most obstacles cannot be knocked down, but if the horse hits one, it will slow down.

At a certain point in the story, other riding gameplay will become available, focusing more on precision and evasion of enemies. These segments have time limits, and players will lose valuable seconds if hit by an enemy. If they run out of time, the mission will fail and cannot be retried that day.

Other inputs
Besides riding mechanisms, several keys are used in SSO (QWERTY keyboard only). Here is a list of inputs (not all are indicating in control menu):
 * H to switch between magic coat and normal coat of a magic horse
 * P to get on/off the pet of the saddlebag
 * E to interact with objects (an option in "Option/Creatif" Menu allows to not display the interact layout)
 * O to photo mode
 * F1 to completely hide the User Interface
 * F2 to take screenshots
 * W or Ctrl to crouch down (on foot only)
 * Shift to switch between walk and run (on foot only)
 * I to open the inventory
 * M to open the map

Star Rider
The game can be tried freely, limited to the free areas (Moorland and Fort Pinta) and quests to level 5. To unlock the whole map and quests, you have to pay to become a Star Rider. Three kind of subscriptions are available: monthly, quarterly or Pay-Once. Different type of sales are available each month, and turns every week: Double Star Coins, 30% off Pay-Once Star Rider, Bundles, Free Star Rider Trial<refhttps://www.starstable.com/en/article/10178. The news are deleted from Social Media and Official Website once the sales are finished.

Since 27th June 2018, all players can jump without restrictions. Before, the jump ability was restricted to Star Rider players.

Customization
image: stats windows

Skills
explain horse and player stats

Tips
Press X while in jump allows to turn sharper.

Press F1 to mask the User Interface - if you talk to a NPC, UI reappears but not questmark, in this case press again F1 to see questmarks. Press F2 to take screenshots.

If the horse is stuck, the player can be return to the home stable. For that, open the main menu (ESC key) and click on "Call for Pickup".

To separate two items stacked together in the backpack/storage, press SHIFT and select the concerned item.

To inspect another player, click on the player, then on the player avatar and select "Inspect". On the window, accessible informations are: player name, club, level, gear, reputation, stars found; horse name, level, breed, gender and age, horse gear, horse mood and all owned horses with their breed and level.

After about twenty minutes without any activity on the game, the session is automaticaly closed.

To buy some sweets in a café, sit down on chair and a store menu will automatically open.

In the photo mode, click on objects in the scene to adjust focus when using the depth of field.

Full stats
Full stats equipments, which give the max speed boost, are:

Horse tacks (Speed skill)
 * Bridle: Speed +3, Strength +3
 * Saddle: Speed +3, Strength +1, Agility +2
 * Blanket: Speed +3, Agility +2
 * Horseshoes: Speed +2, Strength +3, Agility +2, Discipline +3
 * Saddlebag, Ribbons, Leg wraps and other decorations: no stat

Avatar clothes (Riding skill)
 * Hat: Ride +4, Command +5, Care +3
 * Top: Ride +8, Jump +1, Command +4
 * Pants: Ride +5, Jump +5, Command +3
 * Gloves: Ride +4, Command +4, Care +1
 * Shoes: Ride +4, Jump +5, Command +3
 * Earings, Glasses, and other accessories: no stat

High level also improve ride and speed skills.

Pet without saddlebag
A bug allows to have pet that follow the player without saddle or saddlebag. For that, follow the steps (if you login with another horse, go directly to step 3): The bug occurs as well as you don't put a new saddle on your horse (even when log off, take another horse, etc.). If you put a saddle, you have to start again. It works also to have pet without saddlebag, and ribbons without bridle. However, saddlebag (resp. head ribbon) will be appear on the horse, even it is equipped without saddle (resp. bridle).
 * Put the horse of interest with its saddle and saddlebag/pet in your stable
 * Take another horse and go outside the sable
 * Go back to your stable
 * Take the horse of interest
 * Go outside the stable
 * Open the equipment window and take off the saddle
 * Press P and voilà! The pet will follow the player without the saddle

Accessibility
Inputs cannot be changed.

For keyboard other than QWERTY, see Keyboard Language.

Game Directory
Game files are located in.

In Windows PC, screenshots (photo mode or F2 key) are in, which is in   folder.

System Requirements & Compatibility
Requirements are specified in Star Stable Online Help.

PC (Desktop) Operating system: Windows 7 (64-bit) Processor: Intel Core i5 or AMD Athlon II (K10) 2.8 GHz Memory: 8 GB RAM Storage: 5GB available space Graphics card: GeForce 2xx-Series or AMD Radeon HD 5xxx-series (Except integrated graphics cards) with OpenGL 3.3

PC (Laptops) Operating system: Windows 7 (64-bit) Processor: Intel Core i5 or AMD Athlon II (K10) 2.8 GHz Memory: 8 GB RAM Storage: 5GB available space Graphics card: Intel HD 5000

Mac (no support) Operating system: 10.13 High Sierra or higher Processor: Intel Core i5 Memory: 8 GB RAM Storage: 5GB available space Graphics card: Intel HD Graphics 6000

Languages
Available languages are: English, Swedish, German, Spanish, Norwegian, French, Russian, Dutch, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Finnish, Danish.

Languages can be changed in the login menu.

Trivia
Some coats have to be raised in Star Stable Horses before tranferring horses in Star Stable Online.

Star Stable Entertainment AB develop a cross-media universe for Star Stable Online. In January 2021, they released the animated series "Star Stable: Mistfall", that talked about Skye and her encounter with Blaze, the magic Embermane, in Mistfall. The Skye's clothes have been released in Star Stable Online, as well as the Embermane coat for Jorvik Wild Horse.

Star Stable Entertainment AB have worked a dozen artists to produce the music in game. Some of them are fictional and live in Jorvik, but have their own Spotify channel, as Lisa Peterson, DJ Kai and the group The Miscreants. Hovewer, the YouTube channels cannot be verified. Since 20th August 2020, some music lyrics and sometimes chords are available on Star Stable website.

Since January 2022, Star Stable Entertainment AB increase their communication about technical details in their monthly Game Blog.

Additional Media
Spoiler-free screenshots of gameplay, box art, game manual... If you have a lot of images, consider creating a gallery!

Official links

 * Star Stable Online website
 * Star Stable Entertainment website
 * Star Stable blog
 * Epic Games Store
 * App Store

Social Media

 * Facebook
 * Instagram
 * Twitter
 * YouTube
 * Bug reports & alerts on Twitter

Help

 * Jorvikipedia, the Star Stable Series Fandom Wiki
 * Star Stable Online page on Jorvikipedia
 * Fanmade Database

Review & Gameplay

 * The Mane Quest first glimpse
 * The Mane Quest review

Interviews & Development

 * The Mane Quest article: “It’s a dream come true” — Nika Bender talks about her work on Star Stable Online
 * Growth report
 * Director interview (2022)