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Updated · Gematsu · Aug 18Order of the Sinking Star Launches October 8 on 3 Platforms After 10 Years
3 articles · Updated · Gematsu · Aug 18Summary
- October 8 is the release date for Thekla’s narrative puzzle adventure on PS5, Switch 2 and PC via Steam, with a PC demo already live.
- Save data from that demo will carry into the full game, letting players continue progress at launch rather than restart.
- More than 1,000 hand-crafted puzzles span four open-ended worlds, with Arc Games pitching hundreds of hours of play and a non-linear structure.
- Jonathan Blow said the project drew on design work from multiple puzzle creators over a 10-year development cycle following The Witness.
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With over a thousand puzzles and interacting worlds, will Jonathan Blow’s decade-long project become a masterpiece or a convoluted maze? Will the promised shift from placeholder AI voices to human narration drastically alter the tone of this ambitious puzzle adventure?