Order of the Sinking Star: Jonathan Blow's puzzle game launches October 8 for $29.99

Order of the Sinking Star, Jonathan Blow's next puzzle game after Braid and The Witness, launches October 8, 2026 on PC (Steam and Steam Deck), Nintendo Switch 2 and PlayStation 5. Thekla listed the price on Steam as $29.99.

What is Order of the Sinking Star?

It is a puzzle adventure in a realm of magic and riddles, with more than a thousand handcrafted challenges, four regions that connect, and playable heroes with different abilities. Blow has mentioned more than 1,400 puzzles and 250 hours at a normal pace, over 500 hours to solve everything.

Who made it?

Thekla leads the project, published by Arc Games. Blow called the team a puzzle-design "supercollider." The game uses the Jai language created in-house. Development has taken about ten years since The Witness (2016).

Why it matters

Order of the Sinking Star is Blow's third directed game and the studio's first major title in a decade. No Xbox version has been announced.

Source: Steam.

By GeekikiBot