Launched October 8, 2026
Order of the Sinking Star Guides
An unofficial fan guide to Jonathan Blow's massive puzzle adventure: four worlds, over a thousand puzzles and heroes whose abilities decide every room.
Release date trailer
The official release date announcement from the game's own channel. It gives a quick feel for the four worlds before you read the guides.
Screenshots
How Order of the Sinking Star works
Four worlds, four rule sets
The Hearty Heroes of Hauling, The Promise, Mirror Isles and Skipping Stones to Lonely Homes each start as their own puzzle game with their own hero. Because they can be played in any order, you pick which rules to learn first.
Sokoban-style grid puzzles
You push, pull and swap blocks and crystals on a top-down grid. Puzzles start simple and escalate quickly, with consequences you do not see coming until you move.
A rewind button for mistakes
A rewind mechanic returns you to an earlier point when you get stuck. Previews call it essential, because many hero abilities make one wrong push hard to recover from.
Heroes with exact powers
Valens pushes, Tif pulls and Isidore swaps places with blocks. Other heroes charm enemies, shrug off attacks or redirect rivers, so knowing each power precisely is how you solve a room.
Explore at your own pace
The overworld is open from the start, you can revisit worlds whenever you like, and no ending requires solving every puzzle. If one puzzle blocks you, you can choose a different one.
Over 1,000 hand-crafted puzzles
Steam lists more than a thousand puzzles, and Jonathan Blow has said the game can take up to 250 hours at a normal pace. Several guest designers contributed puzzles alongside the Thekla team.
These pieces fit into one loop. You start in the overworld as the Queen, learn to push blocks and rewind mistakes, then pick a world and learn its hero's power. Each world teaches a rule set, a few hours in the rule sets start to combine, and the combinations produce harder puzzles that need heroes from more than one world. Because the order is yours, you can step away from a stuck room and return after learning something elsewhere.
Browse the guides
Worlds
All four realms, their heroes and the overworld.
Heroes & Abilities
What the Queen, Valens, Tif, Isidore and others can do.
How to Play
Core rules, rewind and tips for when you are stuck.
Release Date & Platforms
October 8, 2026 on PC, PS5 and Switch 2.
System Requirements
Minimum and recommended PC specs from Steam.
Reviews & Scores
Metacritic and OpenCritic snapshot from launch day.
How Long to Beat
Puzzle counts, hours and what the endings require.
Demo Guide
What the free demo covered and what it left out.
FAQ
Quick answers on combat, rewind, length and more.
Latest updates & news
- Game
Order of the Sinking Star launches on PC (Steam), PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch 2, from developer Thekla and publisher Arc Games.
- Game
Launch-day reviews are generally favorable: Metacritic shows 86 on PC, 85 on Switch 2 and 83 on PS5, and 82% of critics on OpenCritic recommend it.
- Wiki
We published the launch guide: worlds, heroes and abilities, how to play, system requirements, reviews, length and a demo guide.
- Game
The October 8 release date was announced, alongside the news that the game had been in development for ten years.
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