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Order of the Sinking Star
From director Jonathan Blow (Braid, The Witness), Order of the Sinking Star is a narrative 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.
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Order of the Sinking Star is the ultimate Sokoban game, a masterpiece from the best minds in the puzzle genre space.
Pure puzzlers are BACK with Order of the Sinking Star, a delightfully challenging and constantly surprising new addition to the genre from the creative mind that brought us Braid and The Witness.
If you're looking for a little brain-teasing, Jonathan Blow's latest work is exactly what you're looking for.
Order of the Sinking Star is finally here and has proven to be one of the finest puzzle games in the genre, setting up a new standard.
Order of the Sinking Star | Review | Jonathan Blow's ensemble puzzle is a treasure trove of insights to explore on your own.
Have you ever heard of Order of the Sinking Star? Probably not – which is a shame, because it's a damn good and addictive puzzle game that you simply must check out. Here's a review of the PC version.
Order of the Sinking Star packs over 1,000 handcrafted puzzles into four worlds with no tutorials. My review covers its puzzle design, characters, undo system, story, and how it runs on a low-end PC.
Order of the Sinking Star begins with a mystery, and soon sets another raft of mysteries on top of it. You are Queen Effia, finding yourself roaming the
Along with the story, the presentation looks wonderful. The way that the colors pop and contrast against each other is stunning to behold. There’s just one big issue if gamers want to play Order of the Sinking Star on the Switch 2. The frustrating aspect of playing Order of the Sinking Star is the massive framerate drops. Especially in the overworld, when everything grinds to a halt. It feels like slow service on dial-up internet.
Thekla, Inc.'s latest puzzler is an epic undertaking that oscillates between fun and frustration while keeping you enthralled.
This is DualShockers' review of the puzzle game Order of the Sinking Star from creator Jonathon Blow.
Order of the Sinking Star’s sprawling world is a triumph of puzzle design, giving its countless mechanics room to develop, intersect, and surprise long after their initial introduction. Yet while its interconnected structure gives the gameplay a genuine sense of depth, the same cannot be said for its narrative. Its verbose dialogue, meandering audio logs, and self-conscious musings on game design seem to reach for the sort of philosophical complexity that defined Blow’s previous works, but rarely offer anything worth reflecting on. The result is a game whose puzzles continually reward curi…