"Order of the Sinking Star starts with you playing as a deposed queen from another world who is transported to a strange place. This turns out to be the tutorial. Among other things, you'll find out about the undo button, a handy option you can use to revert your actions if you get stuck. It's probably worth being careful with this button, as Blow says it's possible to undo thousands of moves with it. There's a level reset option too."
"Fundamentally, Order of the Sinking Star is a grid-based puzzle game in which you'll move blocks around to complete an objective. You might know of this as a Sokoban game, named after the series Hiroyuki Imabayashi created about pushing boxes around a warehouse. But this is a Jonathan Blow game, so nothing stays too simple for very long. Blow and his team took the core concept of pushing objects around and built on it in myriad ways,"
Order of the Sinking Star arrives in 2026 on Steam with additional platforms to be announced. The game uses grid-based, Sokoban-style block-pushing puzzles as its core and layers many new mechanics, environments, and characters on top of that foundation. The opening places the player as a deposed queen in a tutorial realm that teaches an undo feature capable of reverting thousands of moves and offers a level reset. The first phase contains four distinct territories, each with unique characters, stories, and gameplay mechanics. Development has been public since 2016 and emphasizes layered complexity built from simple rules.
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