Order of the Sinking Star Walkthrough

Start at the Crossroads and choose the eastern route

This walkthrough starts after the tutorial, at the Crossroads, and follows the first Mirror Isles sub-region. Collect the map above the Crossroads, then take the eastern path. The island hub is recognizable by its large Mirror Isles lettering and the group of four puzzle flowers.

The puzzle numbers below are the opening-region sequence used by Mehrdad Khayyat’s guide, rather than a claim about an official global numbering system. Start each room from its initial arrangement. Use screen-left, screen-right, up and down for the move directions; a numbered move counts grid squares.

For a world-level location lookup, use the world and region index. The northern and eastern routes are the beginner guide’s suggested starting choices; you are free to choose another path.

Sources: GameRant — Order of the Sinking Star walkthrough hub · GameRant — Mehrdad Khayyat, Mirror Isles Part 1 · Into Indie Games — Mahmud Munazil Rahman’s beginner guide · Arc Games — Fero, Explore the Realm

Read the reflection before moving

In these rooms, your goal is the yellow circular pad. Activate a mirror when your reflected position is on the island you need; you do not walk across the water between those islands. Moving farther from a mirror can move the reflection farther away.

You can push these mirrors, but you cannot pull them back. Before pushing one against an edge, check that you will still be able to reach its other side. If your objects no longer match a step’s starting position, use Undo or restart the room before applying the move counts. The controls reference separates the reported PC defaults from other layouts.

Sources: GameRant — Mehrdad Khayyat, Mirror Isles Part 1 · Arc Games — Fero, Explore the Realm · Into Indie Games — Mahmud Munazil Rahman’s beginner guide

Puzzle 1 — reach the southern island

Identify the room by four separate green islands: the mirror is on the upper-right island and the yellow goal is on the lower island.

1. Reflect to the upper-left island

   Activate the mirror to leave the starting island.

2. Extend the reflected position south

   Walk to the leftmost square of the upper-left island. Your reflection now reaches the lower island.

3. Land and finish

   Activate the mirror again, then walk onto the yellow pad.

   Completion signal: The Trader stands on the southern goal; return to the island hub for Puzzle 2.

Sources: GameRant — Mehrdad Khayyat, Mirror Isles Part 1 · Gamer Guru — Mirror Isles puzzle recording

Puzzle 2 — move two mirrors

This room has a small northern starting island, a larger island below-left with a second mirror, and the goal island on the right.

1. Reposition the northern mirror

   Push it to the left edge of its island. Walk right along the same row until your reflection is on the lower-left island, then activate the mirror.

2. Adjust the second mirror

   Push the mirror on that lower-left island up two squares. Walk down to the bottom square in the same column.

3. Cross to the goal

   When the reflection reaches the right-hand goal island, activate the mirror and step onto the yellow pad.

   Completion signal: The Trader occupies the right-hand goal.

Sources: GameRant — Mehrdad Khayyat, Mirror Isles Part 1 · Gamer Guru — Mirror Isles puzzle recording

Puzzle 3 — carry the mirror across stone bridges

Look for five islands: a southern starting island with one stone, a central island, a western mirror island, two stones on the northern island, and the goal island to the east.

1. Make the first crossing

   Push the southern stone right one square, then up three squares into the water. Cross it to the central island.

2. Reach the northern stones

   From the central island’s leftmost square, reflect to the western mirror island. Push that mirror up four squares; walk down until the reflection reaches the northern island, then reflect there.

3. Build two bridge links

   Push the northern island’s left stone down into the water. Move its other stone left two squares, down seven, then left four. These stones connect the northern, central and western islands.

4. Bring the mirror to the center

   Cross back to the western island and push the mirror over the bridge to the central island. Leave it on the central island’s rightmost square.

5. Reflect from the south

   Walk onto the southern island in the mirror’s column. Activate it when your reflection is on the eastern island, then take the yellow pad.

   Completion signal: The Trader is on the eastern goal, with the mirror on the central island.

Sources: GameRant — Mehrdad Khayyat, Mirror Isles Part 1

Puzzle 4 — use a submerged stone as a standing square

This room has one mirror, one movable stone and a goal on the separated island to the left.

1. Reach the stone

   Push the mirror right two squares. Walk left until your reflection reaches the upper part of the room, then activate the mirror.

2. Create the standing square

   Push the stone left one square, up two, then left into the water.

3. Use the new square

   Stand on the submerged stone and activate the mirror when the reflection reaches the island with the yellow pad. Walk onto the pad.

   Completion signal: The goal is on the left-hand island in the original capture.

Sources: GameRant — Mehrdad Khayyat, Mirror Isles Part 1

Hub crossing after Puzzle 4 — open the eastern pair

1. Lift the hub mirror

   On returning to the Mirror Isles hub after the first four rooms, push the newly available mirror up two squares.

2. Reflect from the bottom of its column

   Walk back down that column and activate the mirror to reach the eastern island.

   Completion signal: You can now enter the flowers for Puzzles 5 and 6.

Sources: GameRant — Mehrdad Khayyat, Mirror Isles Part 1

Puzzle 5 — extend a bridge to carry the mirror

The goal is on the right-hand island. You need to bring the mirror around the lower islands rather than trying to reflect directly from its starting position.

1. Move the mirror west

   Push the starting stone down one square and left two into the water. Push the mirror down one and left five over that bridge. Walk right until you can reflect to the lower island.

2. Add a branch to the bridge

   On the lower island, push the upper of its two stones up into the water. Bring the remaining stone into that column and push it up over the first, joining the earlier bridge.

3. Carry the mirror down

   Return to the mirror and push it down one square, right two, then down four. Go around to its front and push it up two.

4. Reflect to the right-hand goal

   Walk to the bottom square of this island, activate the mirror and step onto the yellow pad.

   Completion signal: The mirror is between the upper stones and lower island; the Trader reaches the right-hand goal.

Sources: GameRant — Mehrdad Khayyat, Mirror Isles Part 1

Puzzle 6 — put the mirror on the outer stone

The upper starting island has two stones. The mirror is on a long lower island, and the goal sits on the isolated island at upper-left.

1. Make a two-stone approach

   Push the right stone left four squares, then down into the water in the mirror’s column. Move the other stone into that column and push it down over the first stone. Stand on the second stone and reflect to the right end of the lower island.

2. Build the outer foothold

   Move each of the lower island’s two stones to its leftmost square, then push each left into the water.

3. Set the mirror on the far stone

   Push the mirror right one square, up one, then left onto the outermost submerged stone.

4. Reach the remaining island

   Walk right along the lower island until your reflection reaches the goal island. Activate the mirror and walk onto the yellow pad.

   Completion signal: The Trader is on the isolated upper-left goal.

Sources: GameRant — Mehrdad Khayyat, Mirror Isles Part 1

Hub crossing after Puzzle 6 — reach the southern pair

1. Restore the hub mirror’s starting position

   Back in the hub, use Undo to return the western hub mirror to its original position with the Queen on that island. The original guide uses held Z on PC for this hub rewind; follow the Undo action shown by your own controls.

2. Use the newly opened square

   Push the hub mirror up only one square. Walk south and reflect to the eastern island.

3. Take the southern reflection

   Walk to the eastern island’s right end along the same row. Collect the map there and activate the reflection to the southern island.

   Completion signal: The southern flowers for Puzzles 7 and 8 are now reachable.

Sources: GameRant — Mehrdad Khayyat, Mirror Isles Part 1

Puzzle 7 — get behind the stone to finish the bridge

There is a starting stone, a mirror on the upper island, another stone to move south, and the goal island on the right.

1. Reach the upper island

   Push the starting stone up two squares into the water and cross the new bridge. Push the mirror up one square and left one into its corner position.

2. Move the second stone south

   Push the other stone down two squares, left two, then down three. It reaches the southern island.

3. Approach the correct side

   Return to the upper island and stand in the mirror’s row. Activate it to arrive on the left side of the southern stone.

4. Complete the last bridge

   Push that stone right into the water, cross to the eastern island and stand on the yellow pad.

   Completion signal: The final stone connects the southern island to the right-hand goal island.

Sources: GameRant — Mehrdad Khayyat, Mirror Isles Part 1

Puzzle 8 — move the mirror around the narrow strip

Look for a long upper landmass with a narrow horizontal strip joining its two ends. The starting mirror and one stone are at the right end; another stone is at upper-left. The goal is on a detached island at lower-left.

1. Make room around the mirror

   Push the mirror right one square. Push the nearby stone right two and up one into the water, making space to get around the mirror.

2. Bring the mirror onto the strip

   Push the mirror down one square and left four. Leave it there. Move the other stone right three and down four into the water.

3. Reach the left side through the reflection

   Return to the mirror. Push it down one square and left five, then activate it to land on the stone you submerged.

4. Aim for the final island

   Push the mirror up three squares and left four. Walk right along its row until your reflection reaches the lower-left goal island. Activate the mirror and walk onto the yellow pad.

   Completion signal: The original author’s clip ends with the Trader on the lower-left goal at about 88 seconds.

Sources: GameRant — Mehrdad Khayyat, Mirror Isles Part 1

Last hub crossing — enter the next sub-region

1. Move the newly available stone

   After returning to the hub, a mirror and a stone are available on the southern island. Push the stone right one square.

2. Get behind it

   Stand in front of the mirror and activate it to reach the other side of the stone. Push the stone down into the water.

3. Take the reflection onward

   Return to the mirror and push it right one square. Stand on the submerged stone and activate the mirror.

   Completion signal: You reach the next sub-region. This is the endpoint of the covered route, rather than the end of the Mirror Isles campaign or the game.

Stop here if you want to continue discovering the next rooms yourself. For later combined-world room identification, use dragon puzzle help when it matches your board; the world index explains the larger connections without giving later story outcomes.

Sources: GameRant — Mehrdad Khayyat, Mirror Isles Part 1