Back in 2016, after six-and-a-half years spent working on puzzle-adventure opus The Witness, Jonathan Blow says he needed a break. He tells Ars that the project he started in The Witness’ wake was meant to serve as a quick proof of concept for a new engine and programming language he was working on. “It was supposed to be a short game,” that could be finished in “like a year and a half or two years,” he said.

Now, after nine years of development - and his fair share of outspoken, controversial statements - Blow is finally approaching the finish line on that “short game.” He said Order of the Sinking Star - which was announced Thursday via a Game Awards trailer ahead of a planned 2026 release - now encompasses around 1,400 individual puzzles that could take completionists 400 to 500 hours to fully conquer.

“I don’t know why I convinced myself it was going to be a small game,” Blow told me while demonstrating a preview build to Ars last week. “But once we start things, I just want to do the good version of the thing, right? I always make it as good as it can be.”

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