10 Hours With Jonathan Blow's New Puzzle Game Order Of The Sinking Star

Key Points:

• Order of the Sinking Star is a puzzle game that reinvents and combines four excellent indie sokoban-style puzzle games, offering over a thousand challenging puzzles with innovative mechanics and clever design choices.
• The game features a layered overworld structure where a Queen character moves through puzzles and uses abilities gained to unlock further challenges, enhancing the puzzle-within-puzzle experience.
• While the puzzles are praised for their quality and creativity, the narrative and overarching mystery are seen as weaker, with characters and storylines failing to engage or clarify the world, leading to player indifference.
• The review experience was impacted by the use of AI-generated voices and incomplete voice acting, along with visual clarity issues on certain platforms, which may be resolved in the final release.
• The game's director, Jonathan Blow, holds controversial political views that may influence players' reception; those interested primarily in the puzzle gameplay may find the game worthwhile, while others might prefer to wait for broader feedback on the story and final presentation.