Star Seeker in the Secret of the Sorcerous Standoff

Game Details: Mystery, 2020

Links: Moby Games, Steam, Adventure Gamers

Walkthrough Updated: 4/22/2023

Suggested Listening: Help Me Out (Ash 25)

Star Seeker in the Secret of the Sorcerous Standoff is a short mystery comedy adventure. You play as Star Seeker, a wizard who has been caught using magic, which is illegal. In exchange for a reduced sentence, you have agreed to help the authorities solve another crime. There are 5 Steam Achievements, all documented in the walkthrough below.

Part 1

Gathering Evidence

After the introduction, you will start with the following 2 pieces of evidence:

Fire at 2:35
Police activity

Look around the room and examine all of the other pieces of evidence that have been marked with yellow placards:

Burnt corpse
Projection
Ash pile
Haywire
Melted candles
Pentagram table
Bullet wound
Charred robes
Used candle
Unidentified tattoos
Virgin's blood

Make sure you check out the bookshelf in the corner and read both books to collect more evidence:

Portable Hole
Reversing Rune
Emergency Exit
Go Tattoos
Living Memory
Mass Arrest Momentum
Flesh to Stone
Stop Tattoos

Talk to the goat to get the final available piece of evidence:

Goat

Forming Hypotheses

Now you can talk to Leo and start forming hypotheses during your conversation.

Whoever he is: Goat, Projection
Cause of death: Goat, Ash pile
What kind 'zactly: Goat, Go Tattoos
Cause of death: Goat, Bullet wound
Where that's from: Goat, Flesh to Stone
Some kinda hologram: Goat, Living Memory
Where'd it come from: Goat, Stop Wizard
How did it backfire: Goat, Used candle

During this process, you will accumulate the following evidence:

Slick Emmup (changed from Burnt corpse)
Go Wizard
Ugly tattoos (changed from Unidentified tattoos)
Stop Wizard

By now you should now have gathered all available evidence from the crime scene By the Book.

Part 2

Forming Hypotheses

There is no more evidence to collect, so just talk to Leo to form some more hypotheses.

How did the fire start: Goat, Pentagram table
But how did it spread: Goat, Reversing Rune Reach 1,000,000 Points, Haywire
Was it an accident, or was it on purpose: Goat, Emergency Exit
Failed somehow: Goat, Bullet wound
Why didn't Slick escape: Goat, Mass Arrest Momentum

By now you should have accused the goat of being involved at least 10 times Capricious.

Part 3

Gathering Evidence

Go around the scene and examine the curtain, ritual book and burnt body to get some more evidence:

Tub of concrete
Level-up ritual
Slick's wound

By now you should now have gathered all evidence for the case Thorough Investigation.

Forming Hypotheses

Talk to Leo and form some more hypotheses during your conversation.

Can't possibly be true: Level-up ritual
How do we know: Goat
How did that statue get there: Tub of concrete
Why: Police activity
Why would he set himself on fire: Ash Pile
Why would he start a fire: Slick Emmup
What was he hiding by doing that: Slick's wound

Part 4

Forming Hypotheses

Keep talking to Leo to form the final hypotheses:

Any way to know: Living Memory
How did he die from it: Reversing Rune
How was it possible: Mass Arrest Momentum
What happened: Portable Hole
Why's the wizard bleeding: Virgin's blood
How do you fake no pulse: Mass Arrest Momentum

And now you have solved the case Case Closed.