2026-06-15 · design-roundup
The Design of 'Four Worlds That Collide' — Jonathan Blow's Order of the Sinking Star Steam Next Fest Demo Launches Today
One item today. Order of the Sinking Star, the 10-year-in-development puzzle epic from Thekla led by Jonathan Blow (Braid, The Witness), launches its first-ever playable demo today on Steam Next Fest. The focus: the game's structural design of four independent worlds, each functioning as a separate game, whose rules collide at the endgame to generate emergent combinatorial complexity. Based on GamesBeat's hands-on report by Dean Takahashi (June 10, 2026).