Who are the playable characters in Order of the Sinking Star?

Each of the four worlds has its own protagonist. The Trader crosses the East (Mirror Isles), the Explorer the West (Beamcasters, called The Promise in the demo), the Sailor the South, and a six-member fantasy party runs a moving company in the North.

Is there an undo button?

Yes. Undo exists and the game expects you to use it; it is the answer to most "I pushed the wrong thing" moments.

What are the Gold Rooms?

Six areas that each connect two worlds and mix their rules, for example West beams with East mirrors. All six are solved on the Gold Rooms page.

What does each Hauling Hero do?

Each hero has one move: the Warrior pushes, the Thief pulls, the Wizard swaps places in a straight line, the Bard's song drags things along a row or column, the Druid turns plants and creatures into crystals and back, and the Cleric's shield protects it but it cannot push.

Order of the Sinking Star Characters: Abilities & Key Levels

Each of the four worlds in Order of the Sinking Star has its own protagonist and its own puzzle rule set.

The characters

Character	World	Core mechanic	Guide
Trader	East: Mirror Isles	Magical mirrors that swap the character (or an object) with its reflection	Trader guide
Explorer	West: Beamcasters	Gems power emitters that fire colored beams; stand in a beam to borrow its power	Explorer guide
Sailor	South: Skipping Stones to Lonely Homes	Water: planning routes, redirecting rivers, controlling lily pads, predicting where a skipped stone lands	Sailor guide
Warrior, Thief, Wizard, Bard, Cleric, Druid	North: The Hearty Heroes of Hauling	One move per hero: push, pull, swap, song, crystallize, shield	Hauling Heroes guide

The shared foundation

Grid movement. Every puzzle plays on a tile grid viewed from a semi-overhead angle. You move one tile at a time, and most objects (boulders, crystals, characters) also occupy whole tiles.
Contained “pocket” dungeons. Each area is a self-contained space with its own short story, often told through audio logs. Areas loop back on themselves, so a late room frequently reuses an early one from a new angle.
Undo. There is an undo button, and the game expects you to use it. It is the answer to most “I pushed the wrong thing” moments.
Mechanics stack. Rules introduced early are reused and combined later, first inside a world and then across worlds in the Gold Rooms.

Gold Rooms

Green islands and a beam side by side in a Gold Room · Screenshot: Thekla, Inc. (Steam)

Six Gold Rooms sit between the regions. Each one connects two worlds and mixes their rules, for example beams from the West with mirrors from the East. They are where the four separate rule sets become one game. All six are solved on Gold Rooms: all 6 solutions.

Solutions by world

East (Trader): Mirror Isles
West (Explorer): Vault of the Beamcasters
South (Sailor): Skipping Stones to Lonely Homes
North (Hauling Heroes): Heroes of Hauling, Heroes 2: Monsters, Heroes 3: Bard, Druid
Where to go next: how to progress

How to approach a new puzzle

Walk the whole room before touching anything. Note every gem, mirror, boulder and exit.
Identify which rule the room is teaching. Rooms almost always introduce exactly one new idea.
Try the plain solution first. Tricks exist, but they are also how you soft-lock.
Use undo early. Resetting a room costs nothing except pride.