Update before troubleshooting. The first patch specifically addressed incompatibilities many players hit on day one.
Live Patch Cadence
Active from launch
DOSSIER
What this entry covers
Thekla committed at launch to ongoing patches covering bugs, performance and quality-of-life improvements including localisation. The first public post-launch update, dated October 9 and published October 10, downgraded the required Steam SDK to fix widespread compatibility problems and shipped a list of level, camera and checkpoint fixes.
PROTOCOL CHAIN
How to work this entry
Read the notes as feature documentation: fixes name internal level names such as promesst2 and skipping_stones.
Expect some fixes to be withheld to avoid spoilers, which the notes state outright.
Treat the change list as authoritative over third-party summaries.
FIELD NOTES
Reading Live Patch Cadence in play
FIELD NOTE 01
Reading the board before you move
Update before troubleshooting. The first patch specifically addressed incompatibilities many players hit on day one.
FIELD NOTE 02
Working the chain in order
Read the notes as feature documentation: fixes name internal level names such as promesst2 and skipping_stones.
FIELD NOTE 03
How this entry reads in motion
Expect some fixes to be withheld to avoid spoilers, which the notes state outright.
PLATE WALL
SOURCES
Where this entry comes from
Each record below backs a specific claim on this page. Tier 1 is the developer or publisher speaking in their own words, tier 2 is established press, and tier 3 is creator coverage. Quotations are rendered in written form; the exact spoken wording from the source is kept underneath each one for verification.
- 01 TIER 1 - OFFICIAL Steam News - Community Announcements VERIFIED 2026-10-11
Thekla committed at launch to ongoing patches covering bugs, performance and quality-of-life improvements including localisation. The first public post-launch update, dated October
“Various fixes that seem too spoilery to put in patch notes...”
OPEN SOURCE → - 02 TIER 1 - OFFICIAL Steam store page (Thekla, Inc.) VERIFIED 2026-10-11
Entity identity and official naming for Live Patch Cadence
“From legendary director Jonathan Blow (Braid, The Witness) comes Order of the Sinking Star, a massive puzzle adventure featuring more than one thousand hand-crafted puzzles designed to put your intellect to the test. You”
OPEN SOURCE →
GRID RELATIONS
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