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Enter a massive puzzle adventure where four worlds, unique heroes, and over a thousand puzzles eventually intertwine

Discover a puzzle adventure built around more than a thousand challenges

Order of the Sinking Star is a puzzle adventure developed by Thekla, Inc. and directed by Jonathan Blow, creator of Braid and The Witness.

The adventure takes you into a realm shaped by magic, mysterious mechanisms, dangerous creatures, and secrets that unfold across multiple interconnected worlds.

At the heart of the experience are over 1000 handcrafted puzzles, designed to constantly introduce new ideas and progressively transform the rules learned during previous hours of play.

The game does not simply present a long sequence of unrelated challenges. Each solution helps teach a new concept, deepen a mechanic you already understand, or prepare you for much more complex combinations.

Progression focuses on understanding rather than speed: observation, experimentation, and the ability to interpret the rules of the world become your main tools for moving forward.

Explore four worlds with different rules and mechanics

The adventure is built around four major worlds, each featuring its own characters, rules, environments, and puzzle systems.

At first, these worlds can be explored as relatively independent experiences, allowing you to gradually learn the logic that governs each area.

Some sections revolve around grid-based movement and manipulating objects in space, while others introduce reflections, paths created through the environment, beams of light, and abilities unique to different characters.

This variety gives every world its own identity and prevents the experience from relying on a single idea repeated across hundreds of levels.

As you progress, however, the mechanics begin to evolve.

Concepts that initially appear simple are reinterpreted, combined, or used in situations that require knowledge acquired many hours earlier.

Progression therefore becomes a continuous expansion of the game’s logical language.

Control different heroes with complementary abilities

Order of the Sinking Star does not revolve around a single protagonist.

Throughout the adventure, you meet and control different characters, each with abilities that change the way puzzles are approached.

Among the heroes are a queen, a thief, a warrior, a wizard, and even a talking boat, along with other protagonists connected to the different regions of the world.

Their abilities are not merely cosmetic variations. Each character introduces new movement options, interactions, and ways to manipulate elements within the environment.

When several characters eventually meet, their abilities can become complementary and create situations that would be impossible to solve through a single system.

This allows the puzzles to increase in complexity organically: first you learn what each hero can do individually, then you must understand how to use multiple abilities within the same challenge.

Progress freely through a nonlinear structure

One of the most important features of Order of the Sinking Star is the freedom it gives you during exploration.

You are not forced to solve every puzzle in the exact order in which you encounter it. You can visit different worlds, temporarily leave a particularly difficult challenge behind, and return later after gaining a new perspective.

This nonlinear structure reduces the need to remain stuck on a single solution and encourages exploration.

The large Overworld connects the different regions and allows you to move between areas, characters, and puzzle systems.

Returning to a previously visited location can also take on new meaning after understanding a mechanic introduced in another world.

Exploration therefore becomes an integral part of puzzle solving: deciding where to go, which problems to temporarily leave unresolved, and which concepts to investigate directly contributes to progression.

Watch the mechanics collide and uncover the mystery of the Sinking Star

The true complexity emerges when the four worlds begin to intersect.

Mechanics that were initially separated are combined within the same puzzles, forcing you to think according to rules learned in different parts of the adventure at the same time.

This fusion is one of the central elements of the design: something that once seemed exclusive to one particular world can suddenly become part of a much broader system.

At the same time, the stories of the different characters also begin to converge.

Through exploration, conversations, and collected notes, you can gradually reconstruct the nature of the kingdom, the meaning behind its events, and the mystery of the Order of the Sinking Star.

The narrative is therefore not separated from the puzzles. Understanding the world and understanding its rules often progress together, turning puzzle solving into a way of discovering what is really happening.

Face hundreds of hours of puzzles and constantly evolving mechanics

Order of the Sinking Star is designed as an especially extensive experience for puzzle enthusiasts.

In addition to more than a thousand challenges, the game features dozens of different mechanics and enough content to support hundreds of hours of exploration and puzzle solving.

Difficulty does not come only from increasing the number of elements on screen.

Instead, the game tends to introduce a rule, allow you to understand it through simpler problems, and then change the context until completely new reasoning is required.

This progression rewards curiosity and perseverance above all else.

The best solutions often emerge when you understand a general principle rather than simply searching for a sequence of moves.

For this reason, the game is particularly suited to players looking for a long, demanding puzzle experience built around the constant discovery of new ideas.

Experience the Steam ROW version with controller and Steam Deck support

This offer refers to the Steam ROW version of Order of the Sinking Star, intended for regions compatible with this specific edition.

The title is exclusively single-player and supports Steam Achievements, Steam Cloud, and Family Sharing.

Full Xbox and PlayStation controller support is available alongside traditional PC controls.

Order of the Sinking Star is also Steam Deck Verified, allowing you to play the adventure in portable mode on compatible hardware.

Interface and subtitles are available in 11 languages, including Italian, English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese.

Full voice acting is available in English.

The Steam ROW version therefore provides access to the complete main experience together with all features supported by the PC edition.

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Choose Order of the Sinking Star Steam ROW on Keycense and immerse yourself in one of the largest puzzle adventures designed for fans of the genre.

Explore four different worlds, control heroes with complementary abilities, and face more than a thousand handcrafted puzzles.

Move freely through a nonlinear structure, leave the most difficult challenges behind temporarily, and return later with new knowledge.

As worlds, characters, and mechanics begin to merge, use everything you have learned to solve increasingly complex puzzles and uncover the mystery of the Order of the Sinking Star.