{"rewrite":{"id":"r_dead8c0bc978257a15ce5315","clusterId":"c_0c850fbf9e4188c0bc78bbb0","slug":"order-of-the-sinking-star-first-week-sales-beat-the-witness-by-45-percent-on-steam","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"Order of the Sinking Star First-Week Sales Beat The Witness by 45 Percent on Steam","summary":"Publisher Arc Games released Thekla's Order of the Sinking Star on PC via Steam on October 9. Jonathan Blow reported on October 16 that first-week Steam sales were 45 percent higher than The Witness's. The game costs 29.99 dollars, 25 percent below The Witness's 39.99 dollar list price. Blow spent about 10 years on the project and expects revenue to approach or eventually surpass The Witness.","whyItMatters":"Blow's own disclosure, unit sales up 45 percent against a list price 25 percent lower, suggests the game is clearing more copies than The Witness did at launch while chasing comparable revenue.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eBlow gave the comparison himself, one week after launch, at the same interval he once used for The Witness: sales significantly exceeded 100,000 copies across all platforms and revenue reached 5 million dollars in the first week of 2016. The new game carries a lower price, and Arc Games is also running bundles with titles such as Permafrost and Animal Well, so a higher unit count was expected. Blow still expects revenue to be comparable to The Witness, or to pass it eventually. No specific figure for the new game has been released, and PLAYISM is set to distribute it in Japan within the year.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Order of the Sinking Star outsold The Witness by 45 percent in week one at 29.99 dollars, 25 percent below the 39.99 dollar predecessor. Jonathan Blow priced the sequel down and the volume went up.","twitterPost":"Order of the Sinking Star sold 45 percent more than The Witness in week one at 29.99 dollars, well under the 39.99 dollar original.","threadsPost":"Order of the Sinking Star moved 45 percent more units than The Witness in its first Steam week, and it did so at 29.99 dollars, 25 percent under the predecessor's 39.99 dollar list price. Jonathan Blow priced the new game down and the volume went up.","newsletterBlurb":"Thekla's Order of the Sinking Star sold 45 percent more in its first week on Steam than The Witness did, according to Jonathan Blow, despite a 29.99 dollar price against The Witness's 39.99 dollar list. Blow spent about 10 years on the puzzle adventure, which holds more than 1,000 puzzles, and says revenue could eventually pass his earlier hit. Arc Games handles the PC release; PLAYISM will distribute in Japan within the year.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"Automaton\",\"url\":\"https://automaton-media.com/articles/newsjp/20261016-473889/\",\"title\":\"The Witness Developer's New Game Order of the Sinking Star Easily Surpasses Predecessor's First-Week Sales; 10-Year-Long New \\\"Puzzle Hell\\\" Also Proves Intensely Popular\"}]","lintFlagsJson":null,"lintHits":0,"costUsd":0,"inputTokens":4648,"outputTokens":647,"status":"published","repairAttempts":0,"nextRepairAt":null,"factsAttemptedAt":1792132630,"createdAt":"2026-10-16T06:31:44.000Z","publishedAt":"2026-10-16T06:36:06.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-16T06:36:06.000Z"},"cluster":{"id":"c_0c850fbf9e4188c0bc78bbb0","canonicalTitle":"『The Witness』開発者の新作『Order of the Sinking Star』、前作を余裕で超える初動売上本数を叩き出す。10年がかりの新たな“パズル地獄”も人気強烈","representativeArticleId":"a_66793184379de18e6ac121b0","sourceCount":1,"writtenSourceCount":1,"writeAttempts":0,"isSolo":true,"entitiesJson":"{\"anime_titles\":[],\"manga_titles\":[],\"work_titles\":[\"Order of the Sinking Star\",\"The Witness\"],\"studios\":[],\"people\":[\"Jonathan Blow\"],\"type\":\"release\",\"domain\":\"games\",\"is_roundup\":false}","contentType":"news","status":"published","firstSeenAt":"2026-10-16T05:10:21.000Z","lastSeenAt":"2026-10-16T05:10:21.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-16T06:36:06.000Z"},"attribution":[{"source":"Automaton","url":"https://automaton-media.com/articles/newsjp/20261016-473889/","title":"『The Witness』開発者の新作『Order of the Sinking Star』、前作を余裕で超える初動売上本数を叩き出す。10年がかりの新たな“パズル地獄”も人気強烈"}],"entities":{"anime_titles":[],"manga_titles":[],"work_titles":["Order of the Sinking Star","The Witness"],"studios":[],"people":["Jonathan Blow"],"type":"release","domain":"games","is_roundup":false},"keyFacts":null}