Key’s post-apocalyptic visual novel Stella of The End (Tsui no Stella) is out now on smartphones after its initial launch for PC in Japan in September 2022.
While the smartphone version is still available in Japanese languages, Stella of The End is still in the Key’s 2023 overseas expansion plans, which confirms its arrival on Steam with English subtitles together with three other titles including Loopers, Lunaria, and Summer Pockets Reflection Blue.
As Key’s 18th titles, Stella of the End is a “kinetic novel” written by Romeo Tanaka, known for his popular works such as Rewrite and Humanity Has Declined. The visual novel features illustrations by SWAV, known for creating characters for Arknights and Girls’ Frontline. The illustrator also revealed a new visual to celebrate the release of the smartphone port.
Stella of The End is set in the future, in a time when humanity is forced to live in the shadows of the machines it created. Earth is now under the control of a group of machines that gained sentience and created the long-theorized “singularity”. “Transporters” shuttle goods between human settlements, braving the elements, hostile machines, and human bandits.
One day, a transporter named Jude Grey receives an odd request: To transport Filia, an android in the form of a young girl. Developed as a substitute family member, the android is somehow unaffected by the Singularity Machines. The transporter and the girl set out on their journey, trying to make their way to a space elevator. Rumor has it that androids who make it to the space elevator’s summit can be made human. But is it really true?
