Jonathan Blow's 500-hour puzzle game Order of the Sinking Star lands NYT and BBC features

IanArawjo · x · 2026-10-14

Jonathan Blow is back: his new game Order of the Sinking Star was featured by both The New York Times and BBC.

• The NYT piece says he made "500 hours of puzzles to explode your mind," and ran a print spread calling it a big swing from the developer-philosopher behind Braid and The Witness.
• Reports suggest it may be the biggest puzzle game ever: The Witness takes 25 hours to finish, while this game packs 500 hours. Blow expected a two-to-three-year project; seven years in, he realized he was only halfway done.
• The game continues his childhood obsession with how the universe runs, and ships with a new programming language.
• BBC interviewed Blow on making the "biggest puzzle game ever."

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