Stellar Affinity Guides

Stellar Affinity (also listed as 성간의 유대 / 星慾姬絆) launched on EROLABS on 29 July 2026 as an adult anime idle bullet-hell RPG. You captain an ancient ship that, in official framing, seems powered by generating electricity with love. Affection toward the girls aboard becomes ship energy; energy becomes divine artifacts; artifacts swing planetary dock fights. This hub is the map of every systems tutorial on the wiki so you never open five menus without knowing which one actually raises power.

Use English pages first, then jump to characters, builds, items, and events once the loop clicks. Redeem active codes only after you know which currency is tickets versus upgrade fuel. Bind the account early via account & bind so mail, carnival, and login pulls stay on one identity.

Pick a guide by friction point

If you are stuck on…	Open this guide
What the game even is	How to play
Day-one calendar and carnival	Beginner week
Post–launch-week daily checklist	Daily Routine
EROLABS bind, transfer, package id	Account & Bind
Client install, updates, emulator	Download & PC setup
Bullet-hell stages vs offline harvest	Combat & idle
Tickets, newbie recruit, login pulls	Gacha & summon
Spiritual affection track	Hime Bonds
Physical companion / dating stages	Cumpanions
Dock routes and story walls	Planet walkthrough
Energy conversion into modules	Artifacts & energy
Tutorial luck and account resets	Reroll
Post-festival / August midgame focus	Midgame priorities
Offline crates and soft-caps	Offline farming
Dock walls and boss checks	Hard stages
Thumbs, dodge, PC keys	Controls
Who gets presents and dates	Gifts & dating
Story-gated free 6★ designate	Story six-star
Hot springs, farms, onboard rooms	Ship life
Talent research and EP	Talent & EP
Steam wishlist / native Windows	Steam PC

Launch economy you should respect

Official and partner launch messaging highlighted several free-progression levers that every guide on this hub assumes:

• Newbie recruit rate-up — early summon lane where you lock a preferred crewmate instead of spreading tickets.
• Cumulative login free pulls — reported as up to about 200 pulls across the campaign window, not a single mail dump.
• Seven-day carnival — mission board mixing clears, upgrades, and bond actions.
• 5000 star fragments class mail packs — soft progression fuel; confirm the exact item name in-client.
• Elite CBT 200% star-diamond return — only for accounts that spent during the wipe beta and log the same identity after launch.
• Story free six-star core path — main-dock progress can cultivate a designated girl toward six-star without buying her out of every banner.

Those levers interact. Carnival wants bond ticks while login pulls want a written summon target. Story free growth wants you on docks instead of AFK in the banner UI. Read beginner week before you empty the ticket wallet on day one. When that carnival window thins out in early August, switch the operating system to daily routine and keep spend order honest with the F2P plan.

Recommended reading order for new captains

1. Download & PC setup if the client is not installed or stuck updating.
2. Account & Bind before heavy summons, purchases, or emulator rebuilds.
3. How to play for the affection → energy → artifact → dock loop.
4. Reroll only while tutorial tickets are still cheap to redo; stop once bonds and purchases exist.
5. Gacha & summon to choose a newbie recruit target against the tier list.
6. Hime Bonds and Cumpanions so spiritual and physical tracks both feed the ship.
7. Combat & idle to schedule active bullet-hell clears versus offline mat harvest.
8. Artifacts & energy when stages stop falling to raw levels.
9. Planet walkthrough for dock checklists and wall diagnostics.
10. Keep beginner week open as a daily dashboard through day seven, then graduate to daily routine.

How systems share one resource budget

Stellar Affinity is not a pure idle clicker and not a pure visual novel. Combat, gacha, and romance systems share attention and mats:

• Bond gifts and carnival intimacy tasks compete with artifact upgrade mats.
• Idle harvest fills inventories that progression priority must spend on a focused core, not twelve girls.
• Banner tickets look infinite during the ~200 login pull window and still evaporate if you chase three rate-ups.
• Planet docks gate story free six-star cultivation; skipping them to spam summons often slows the account.
• Residual login and event-shop currency after launch week still needs a written sink — see current events and F2P plan.

When a page on this hub links to best teams or team builds, treat that as the next concrete decision after the tutorial concept lands.

After launch week: which page owns the calendar?

• Days 1–7 carnival and login spike → beginner week plus launch rewards.
• Steady mid-week loops once the carnival board empties → daily routine.
• Timed shops, residual missions, banner overlap → current events.
• After Light Festival maintenance (12 Aug 2026, now closed) → midgame priorities, offline farming, hard stages.
• Client version, bind, or “progress vanished” panic → account & bind and download & PC before you reroll.

Video-backed tutorials

Where a real YouTube capture exists, child pages embed one mid-article facade (thumbnail first, play on click). Launch gameplay footage supports pages such as how to play, download & PC, and bond-focused captures on Hime Bonds. We never invent video IDs and never stack multiple embeds on one article.

Tools and adjacent hubs

• Bond checklist for Talk / Gift / Mission ticks
• Codes tracker so launch strings do not get lost
• Summon planner for ticket lanes, gem floors, and stop conditions
• Glossary when mail vs Redeem vs login UI labels blur
• Summon priority before you empty newbie or login stashes
• Events and launch rewards for timed mail
• Builds and F2P plan when upgrade order is the blocker
• Review if you are still deciding whether the adult idle bullet-hell mix fits you
• Codes for free starters once currency roles are clear

How to use this hub without thrashing

Open one guide fully, finish its checklist, then follow a single outbound link. Captains who skim five hubs usually mis-spend carnival tickets and leave the story free six-star path half-done. Stellar Affinity rewards people who understand why the ship needs affection before they max every slider on every girl.

Return here when a patch adds docks or banners — child guides will update first, and this index stays the routing table.