Order of the Sinking Star World Map

Use the Crossroads as your orientation point

After the tutorial, collect the map above the Crossroads, as shown in the launch-period walkthrough hub. This central starting area has a road in each cardinal direction. You can choose any of them; a suggested north or east start is a learning recommendation, not a prerequisite that locks the other routes.

Sources: Arc Games — Fero, Explore the Realm · GameRant — Order of the Sinking Star walkthrough hub · Into Indie Games — Mahmud Munazil Rahman's beginner guide

Match a world or covered region to the right reference

Match the room's characters and objects as well as its name. A northern monster board with two heroes is not identified as Heroes and Mirrors merely because it contains a dragon. The dragon guide's arrangement table separates its covered stamp rooms from an older two-hero button board.

Sources: Arc Games — Fero, Explore the Realm · GameRant — Order of the Sinking Star walkthrough hub · Into Indie Games — Mahmud Munazil Rahman's beginner guide · GameRant — Heroes and Mirrors walkthrough · Hardcore Gamer — Adam Beck, Heroes and Mirrors Part 5

Read the puzzle markers and uncovered space

Pink flower

The launch beginner guide identifies this as an unsolved puzzle marker. Seeing the flower does not necessarily mean you can already walk to it; some visible entrances are physically out of reach.

Large pink flower at a gold room

The same guide identifies it as the first puzzle of that area. It is a local entrance cue, not proof that the whole region is solved.

Orange-to-pink portal

The beginner guide says a portal changes from orange to pink when you step on it to activate it. Use that change to distinguish an activated connection from one you have only seen.

Fog-covered map area

The official world article describes the fog fading as progress reveals larger areas and interwoven mechanics. An uncovered area is exploration information, not a campaign-completion counter.

The overworld itself contains movement problems. Tunnels, one-way tunnels and teleportation points can connect spaces that look separated in a quick map view. Use the visible entrance, character and objects to establish your local position before applying a room solution.

Sources: Arc Games — Fero, Explore the Realm · Into Indie Games — Mahmud Munazil Rahman's beginner guide

Check what opens the next connection

Gold Rooms connect puzzle systems. The September official explanation says clearing them bridges pairs of worlds and introduces six dual-combination areas. That description explains the larger structure; it does not specify the exact opening condition of every gate on the map.

For the northeast connection, the original Heroes and Mirrors guide describes a golden mirror from the Mirror Isles, a path through the Heroes world and the crystal released after the platform's puzzle sequence. Its wording is inconsistent about the number of puzzles in that sequence, so the table uses the observable released-crystal condition rather than inventing a count.

Sources: Arc Games — Fero, Explore the Realm · GameRant — Heroes and Mirrors walkthrough · GameRant — Mehrdad Khayyat, Mirror Isles Part 1

Worlds, regions and puzzle counts mean different things

There is no established total of named regions or coordinate entries in the evidence used for this index. When a guide says “eight puzzles” or “three parts,” read its starting point and endpoint: the opening Mirror Isles route covers eight local rooms, while the dragon stamp stage has three connected segments. Neither number measures the whole world map.

Sources: Arc Games — Fero, Explore the Realm · Arc Games / Thekla — June demo announcement and FAQ · GameRant — Mehrdad Khayyat, Mirror Isles Part 1 · Hardcore Gamer — Adam Beck, Heroes and Mirrors Part 5

Use Joric's community map as a separate reference

Joric publishes an interactive map with a project repository and wiki. It can help you identify a board through its project labels. Those labels and any project coordinates are community references, not an official universal numbering system.

In the supplied June-era discussion, the author says the detailed observations came from the demo and the low-resolution image of the wider overworld came from a trailer. Match a pictured board to your own version before using its solution or coordinate. That provenance does not establish current full-game coverage, a verified total of locations or a solution for every map point.

For a written route in this site's covered eastern area, use the opening Mirror Isles walkthrough. For historical June footage, use the demo walkthrough, whose recorded section names are kept separate from full-game compatibility.

Sources: Joric — interactive map project · r/OrderOfTheSinkingStar — Joric's original map discussion