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Order of the Sinking Star

Thekla, Inc. · Arc Games · 2026-10-08

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AdventureIndieStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Oct 08, 2026 (PlayStation 5), Oct 08, 2026 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Oct 08, 2026 (Nintendo Switch 2)

From director Jonathan Blow (Braid, The Witness), Order of the Sinking Star is a massive puzzle adventure set in a realm of magic and enigma. Solve over 1000 interconnected, hand-crafted puzzles, discover unique playable heroes, master evolving gameplay mechanics, and decipher a grand mystery.

97%
positive of 1.2k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
3,467
twitch viewers (latest)
3467.0
viewers/channel (concentration)
25
IGDB hype votes
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
Order of the Sinking Star is a puzzle video game developed by Thekla, Inc. and published by Arc Games. It is the third game directed by Jonathan Blow after Braid (2008) and The Witness (2016). It was developed using Jai, a programming language developed in-house by Blow and his studio. The game was released for Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, and Windows in October 2026. It received positive reviews from critics.

Health check

Unreleased
  • · Not yet released — no live vitals to measure.
  • · Top 13% of 26,936 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 24k–54k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,193 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $25.39 at GameBillet (2026-10-08)via IsThereAnyDeal

Attention

5.4k1662026-07-12 — 195 pageviews2026-07-15 — 216 pageviews2026-07-18 — 223 pageviews2026-07-21 — 496 pageviews2026-07-24 — 249 pageviews2026-07-27 — 262 pageviews2026-07-30 — 172 pageviews2026-08-02 — 191 pageviews2026-08-05 — 216 pageviews2026-08-08 — 166 pageviews2026-08-11 — 194 pageviews2026-08-14 — 276 pageviews2026-08-17 — 359 pageviews2026-08-20 — 549 pageviews2026-08-23 — 326 pageviews2026-08-26 — 308 pageviews2026-08-29 — 238 pageviews2026-09-01 — 249 pageviews2026-09-04 — 263 pageviews2026-09-07 — 268 pageviews2026-09-10 — 264 pageviews2026-09-13 — 232 pageviews2026-09-16 — 229 pageviews2026-09-19 — 241 pageviews2026-09-22 — 302 pageviews2026-09-25 — 342 pageviews2026-09-28 — 415 pageviews2026-10-01 — 799 pageviews2026-10-04 — 612 pageviews2026-10-07 — 4,850 pageviews2026-10-09 — 4,669 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Twitch viewers

3.6k2.6k2026-10-08 17:12 — 3,566 viewers2026-10-08 18:12 — 3,185 viewers2026-10-09 08:12 — 3,528 viewers2026-10-09 09:12 — 3,350 viewers2026-10-10 07:12 — 2,627 viewers2026-10-10 08:12 — 3,375 viewers2026-10-10 09:12 — 3,467 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Completion

32
achievements tracked
28.3%
earned "Heroes"
0.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportDualShock Controller SupportDualShock Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing

10 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)2350%32
PS5 (PlayStation)150%33
Switch 2 (Nintendo)20%0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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