Order of the Sinking Star – Arc Games and Thekla Unveil Narrative Puzzle Adventure for 2026

Arc Games and Thekla have announced Order of the Sinking Star, a large-scale narrative puzzle adventure from director Jonathan Blow, the man behind the likes of Braid and The Witness. Revealed at The Game Awards, the project has been in development for roughly a decade and is targeting a 2026 launch on PC, with additional platforms and timing to be detailed later.

Order of the Sinking Star drops players into a strange realm of curious magic, dangerous contraptions, and vicious monsters, built around more than one thousand hand-crafted puzzles. You explore four distinct worlds, each introducing its own mechanics, characters, and rules, then watch as they begin to collide and interlock, turning separate systems into a single, dense web of challenges.

Progress is non-linear, encouraging players to revisit areas, experiment, and tackle puzzles at their own pace. Blow describes the game as his biggest and most collaborative work, a “game design supercollider” that fuses ideas from multiple noted puzzle designers. Arc Games CEO Yoon Im calls it an ambitious, innovative puzzle adventure for this generation, and frames the announcement as the start of a broader, game-changing year for the publisher.