The Quiet Order

The Quiet Order takes the rules known from LinkedIn's Queens and the classic Eight Queens problem and sets them in a quiet monastery, with a pagoda, pine trees and a low sun behind the board. Each board is divided into coloured regions. Every region needs exactly one monk, no row or column may hold two, and no two monks may stand side by side, diagonals included. Each puzzle has one solution that logic alone reaches.

The game is by Thorvaldsson Games. A free demo came out on itch.io in June 2026 and the full game followed on Steam for Windows on 17 July 2026, a one-time purchase with no microtransactions. The main menu shows the day's date and a day streak, and beneath it the daily boards by size: 6x6, 8x8, 10x10 and 2 Monks, a 10x10 where every region, row and column takes two monks. The demo plays the 6x6 and 8x8 dailies and the other two are locked; on Steam every daily has a leaderboard of completion times shared by demo and full-game players.

You left-click to place or remove a monk and right-click to mark a cell with an X, and Undo, Redo and Restart take you back out of a wrong line. Beside the dailies there are fixed level sets for each board size. Since the 1.1.0 update in October 2026 the Steam game has a Hint button that points out a wrong mark or shows the next cell to rule out and why, with a 30 second wait between hints on dailies. There is a dark mode, a colour-blind mode, an optional timer and a choice of four calm music tracks.

It suits players who already solve Queens or Star Battle each morning and want a slower, quieter version with bigger boards and a two-per-region challenge.