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Joseph Mansfield

@josephmansfield.uk
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I play, make, and share thinky games! 🤔 Sharing great games at @thinkygames.com 🧩 Puzzle playthroughs on www.youtube.com/@JoePlaysPuzzleGames josephmansfield.uk 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Edinburgh

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MONOMOON | Gentle Giant Games @gentlegiantgames.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
MONOMOON, my non-linear game about exploration and discovery launches on Steam November 11th! With no proper instructions, you must deduce and achieve your goals as you solve puzzles, find mysterious items, and uncover secrets hiding right under your nose.
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Thinky Games @thinkygames.com · 15/09/2026
Season 4 of Thinky Dailies has begun! 🎉 Our hero is setting off to the big city, but we've got to pack our bags first - which of course means solving our first ever Spiral Galaxies puzzle! Join the daily puzzle adventure here: thinkygames.com/dail...
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Thinky Games @thinkygames.com · 09/09/2026
We just hit 10k members on our Discord! 🎉 It's a shockingly chill place for having so many people in it. Lots of great conversations about puzzles and games. Thanks for being a great community! Oh and if you want to join: thinkygames.com/disc...
A screenshot of the Thinky Games discord server information, including the number of members showing 10,009.
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Thinky Games @thinkygames.com · 07/09/2026
We're now taking talk submissions for ThinkyCon 2026! 🎉
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ThinkyCon is back for 2026! Talk submissions now open · Thinky Games
Our annual digital convention is back for a third year: on October 26th-28th you can tune in for 3 days of live talks from the makers and enthusiasts of the thinky games world.
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Thinky Games @thinkygames.com · 07/09/2026
Puzzled Pint is tomorrow! Have loved going to these and solving puzzles with friends. It's a lot of fun! If you're curious about attending one of the 80+ locations (or starting one near you!), check out this beginner's guide from @mairispaceship.com. thinkygames.com/features/puz...
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A beginner's guide to Puzzled Pint: the pub night puzzle hunt every thinky fan should try · Thinky Games
Sip, solve, and socialize with fellow puzzle fans at this monthly, community-run meetup with locations worldwide. Mairi Nolan gives us the full rundown.
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Thinky Games @thinkygames.com · 01/09/2026
Lovely new article from Rachel about Big Walk and the joy of solving puzzles with friends. 💛 thinkygames.com/features/big...
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Big Walk turns communication into a puzzle, and puzzles into a language that brings friends together · Thinky Games
From the developer of Untitled Goose Game, the latest hangout game sensation explores a refreshing approach to puzzle solving, one that places the cooperative process above all else.
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Thinky Games @thinkygames.com · 31/08/2026
We're streaming tomorrow! Oooo, ahhh! Checking out Sokogram, Blobs, Sudoku Mansion, and Néro & Sci ∫ Integral Edition. 7am PDT, 10am PDT, 3pm BST, 4pm CEST See you there! twitch.tv/thinkygames
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Thinky Games @thinkygames.com · 26/08/2026
Love this Mystlikes analysis from Devin, looking at ways Myst continues to inspire modern puzzle games and what we can expect from the genre going forward!
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Mystlikes: highlights, trends, and prospects from the frontier of the atmospheric first-person puzzler · Thinky Games
A guided journey through the bewildering present and murky future of the thinky subgenre that once changed the world
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Thinky Games @thinkygames.com · 10/08/2026
Me and the thinky pals checking out this new puzzle book prototype from @portponky.bsky.social 👀
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Mael Duin 🧩 @maelduinplays.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
✨⭐ Announcement time! ⭐✨ I'm super excited to announce FORWARD THINKING SHOWCASE, a puzzle videogames event happening in January 2027, and applications are open! If you are a developer/publisher working on a puzzle or 'think-ahead' game, consider submitting it here: forms.gle/arXVRoxtYK6y...
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Amicable Animal - New CRT7 demo OUT NOW! 🦝🏳️‍🌈 @amicableanimal.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Our last guest game tomorrow is... Thinky Dailies by @thinkygames.com! Local boy (and Technical Lead and Design) @josephmansfield.uk will be showing off the light-hearted daily game which introduces you to all sorts of handcrafted puzzles! A few free tickets left: buytickets.at/mdesingames/...
A screenshot showing Season 2 of Thinky Dailies. Puzzles 1 to 10 are shown in two rows, each with a green tick mark on them. At the top it shows 51 solved, 10 unsolved, 0 to be revealed. Each puzzle has some charming art to go along with it, showing a series of different bean-like figures chatting, exploring, and showing each other cool things like a little key.A screenshot from a specific Thinky Dailies puzzle, this time in a phone orientation. The puzzle is called YOU AGAIN! and has yellow lines drawn between cells to form little paths. It seems the puzzle is to join up all the pairs of emoji shown about a small grid, without crossing lines or missing out spaces.
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Robin Ward @eviltrout.com · 14/07/2026
The game is out NOW! Go play it, and please consider giving us a steam review if you like it. It's the best way for the game to get visibility.
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Thinky Games @thinkygames.com · 14/07/2026
We've been very excited for this Type Help remaster, and today is the day! Check out Megan's review of The Incident at Galley House from @eviltrout.com and William Rous 👇
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The Roottrees are Dead team have masterfully brought an acclaimed mystery game to life with The Incident at Galley House · Thinky Games
This Type Help remaster takes what was excellent about the original and transforms it into a fully imagined world. Creepy old manor? Check. Spooky story? Check. Satisfying puzzles? Check. The Incident at Galley House has it all.
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Blaž Urban Gracar (Letibus Design) @letibus.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Every once in a while I return to @josephmansfield.uk 's Abdec playthrough series to watch the highlights (Parts 9 and 10 are such feel-good moments for me as the designer 😅) and I feel like this screenshot of the playlist describes Abdec better than any review 🙃
A screenshot of the YouTube playlist:
Abdec - Part 5: Nothing Makes Sense Anymore
Abdec - Part 6: These Hints Mean Nothing
Abdec - Part 7: This Book Should Be Banned
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Thinky Games @thinkygames.com · 15/06/2026
We interviewed two developers from Purple Sloth Studio who worked on Trails for this week's Pride Month feature!
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"Find or build communities that empower you!": Teaming up to create meaningful games at Purple Sloth Studio · Thinky Games
For this week's Pride Month feature, we're joined by two members of Purple Sloth Studio, the Berlin-based cooperative behind What's Your Gender?, Chronescher, and Trails.
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Thinky Games @thinkygames.com · 01/06/2026
🏳️‍🌈 Happy Pride Month Thinky gamers!!🏳️‍🌈 For the first in a series of interviews with LGBTQ+ video game developers, we talked with Ashe, the game director of Blobun!
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"Whatever you do, you gotta be your most authentic self": How Blobun's game development became an act of self-discovery · Thinky Games
In our first interview for Thinky's Pride Month series, we chat with Blobun game director Ashe.
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Thinky Games @thinkygames.com · 01/06/2026
Season 3 of Thinky Dailies has begun, taking our hero on an adventure to the Solver's mountain outpost! ✍️ Handcrafted puzzles every day 🧩 A journey through many kinds of puzzle 🗓️ Catch up on seasons 1 and 2 any time thinkygames.com/dail...
A promotional image for the start of season 3 of Thinky Dailies. At the top of the image is a yellow banner with the Thinky Dailies Season 3 logo and the text "Starts Now!".

Below the banner is the cartoony key art, illustrating the main setting for the season - it features a red steam train bounding along railway tracks towards a snowy town in the mountains. On the train, we can see some Thinky Dailies characters: the hero, Mouse, and the hero's mentor. In the town, a train station and bookshop are visible. Up in the mountains, a derelict building can be seen amongst the snowy pine trees, and nearby there is a cave with a pair of glowing eyes visible in the darkness.

At the bottom of the image there is the URL thinkygames.com/dailies
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Draknek & Friends @draknek.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
A very special video (!) episode of the Draknek & Friends Official Podcast is out! We chat to @josephmansfield.uk and @mairispaceship.com to discuss the Cerebral Puzzle Showcase 2026 and the recently premiered Thinky Direct. Now available wherever you get your podcasts youtu.be/7xR-GP0XOoM
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Thinky Games @thinkygames.com · 27/05/2026
Reveal grayed-out maps and fight bosses in these sudoku games!
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Sudokuvania and Sudokoid: uncover a huge metroidvania map and boss fights in the latest of these giant logic puzzles · Thinky Games
There's a new craze in the world of paper logic puzzles: taking after the metroidvania genre of videogames, ambitious creators are making huge, sprawling sudoku puzzles that you slowly uncover and learn new mechanics as you explore.
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Michael Kamm @michaelkamm.games · 26/05/2026
Last year, miHoYo copied my puzzle game Ouros in Zenless Zone Zero. Because they are a recognized, billion-dollar studio and my game isn't well known, some people are now assuming that their version is the original, and mine is the clone. I hope this video clears that up.
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Thinky Games @thinkygames.com · 18/05/2026
🎉 Aw yeaaah, Thinky Direct is back for 2026! Over 40 exclusive trailers for upcoming puzzle and problem-solving games! It's gonna be freakin amazing! 📺 Watch live on Thursday May 28 🕕 10am PDT / 1pm EDT / 6pm BST thinkygames.com/direct2026/
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Draknek & Friends @draknek.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Do you think in 3D? In He Who Watches, you're not confined to the floors - climb walls and ceilings and shift gravity as you manipulate your surroundings. store.steampowered.com/app/1070500/...
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Thinky Games @thinkygames.com · 07/05/2026
🎉 Yes, it's true! Thinky Direct is returning for 2026, with a whole new line-up of exclusive trailers and reveals for the most amazing thinky games. Keep an eye out for more info very soon! Puzzle sicko content creators and journalists, reach out! More info below 👇
Thinky Direct 2026 - Coming Soon!

The image depicts the thinky mascot holding a sign above their head with the words "COMING SOON" written on it in cartoon bubble font. Behind them appears to be a large skyscraper within a bustling major city, with various references to puzzles and Thinky Dailies on banners and signs. On the skyscraper is a large screen with the "Thinky Direct 2026" logo.
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Patrick Traynor @cwpat.me · 06/05/2026
I made a small 1-level puzzle game about recursive bubbles! A variation on the mechanics of Patrick's Parabox, COCOON, Recursed, etc. I wanted to explore letting you easily visualize and modify the nested structure of rooms. Hope you enjoy! :) patrickgh3.itch.io/bubble-sort
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Thinky Games @thinkygames.com · 27/04/2026
Our database has over 1000 games! 🎉
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The Thinky Games Database now contains over 1000 games, including many new mobile game additions · Thinky Games
Our in-house database of all games thinky is always growing, and thanks to the efforts of our database editor we've recently passed the huge milestone of 1000 titles.
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Draknek & Friends @draknek.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
The latest episode of the Draknek & Friends Official Podcast is out! We chat to Steven Lavelle (@increpare.bsky.social) about how Stephen's Sausage Roll started as an attempt to make a bad game, and making a level editor for Oeuf. Check it out wherever you get podcasts draknek.org/podcast
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Draknek & Friends @draknek.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Today, A Monster's Expedition is on a special daily deal featuring! 🪵🌳 To celebrate Stephen's Sausage Roll's 10th birthday, all three games in the Baba's Sausage Expedition - Puzzle Game Masterpieces are on special offer throughout the week. store.steampowered.com/bundle/16473...
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Thinky Games @thinkygames.com · 18/04/2026
Happy 10th Birthday to Stephen's Sausage Roll! 🎉
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10 years of grilling: Stephen's Sausage Roll remains one of the most influential puzzle games ever created · Thinky Games
Happy 10th anniversary to Stephen's Sausage Roll! We asked a handful of developers why it remains a puzzle game masterpiece to this day.
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Old Mayor Studios @oldmayorstudios.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
🎉Tezzel: The Tilemaker’s Tale is now live on Steam!!!!!!! Around 100 puzzles, cozy visuals, and a lot of care put into every level. Check it out below: store.steampowered.com/app/3703730/... #indiegame #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #puzzlegame #steam
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Draknek & Friends @draknek.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
The April 2026 edition of Jeux Vidéo Magazine includes an interview with me, with a very flattering subhead calling me "the pope of puzzles"!
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Joseph Mansfield @josephmansfield.uk · 05/04/2026
I've just seen that Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont Spelling Bee is on BBC iPlayer. If you haven't seen it yet and you like panel shows, I highly recommend it. It's probably my favourite current panel show.
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Tad Cordle @rbdjellyfish.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
✨ A Little Perspective is out now! ✨ I put my all into this strange, experimental game, and I'm so excited to finally let you all experience it for yourselves. Head over to the Steam store to buy it now (10% off for the first week). store.steampowered.com/app/3485300/... #indiegame #puzzle
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Draknek & Friends @draknek.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
This has been a hard secret to keep: we're publishing the remarkable He Who Watches on Steam! He Who Watches is a unique, first-person puzzle game with a fundamental twist - a casual disregard for gravity! Play the demo and wishlist today! store.steampowered.com/app/1070500/...
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Joseph Mansfield @josephmansfield.uk · 21/03/2026
I've started playing The Artisan of Glimmith and it's brilliant. Just fantastic logic puzzle design. I have to pull myself away from it because it's incredibly moreish.
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Thinky Games @thinkygames.com · 04/03/2026
🎉 Season 2 of Thinky Dailies starts now! Join our daily adventure of bite-sized puzzles as our hero learns more about the mysterious Solvers. Catch up on Season 1 any time! thinkygames.com/dail...
Thinky Dailies season 2 starts now! The image depicts wide angle view of a large hall with stone walls. There are shields and emblems on the walls and a few thinky characters wandering around.

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Thinky Games @thinkygames.com · 26/02/2026
Thinky Dailies is now available for everyone to play — no sign-in needed! 🧩 Every day, a new handcrafted puzzle with different rules. 📖 Catch up on the adventure so far before season 2 begins next week! thinkygames.com/dail...
Thinky Dailies
Now everyone can play!
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The image shows all our thinky characters with puzzles floating over their heads.
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Joseph Mansfield @josephmansfield.uk · 26/02/2026
These articles are always incredible! Thank goodness we have Sergiu in the thinky community, haha.
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Guess what now has a Steam page: Deductopia THE FULL GAME! If you like supporting indie devs then smash that wishlist button because Steam visibility is everything for us small devs. store.steampowered.com/app/4429720/...
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Deductopia on Steam
Explore the scenes, find clues, and sort out people, pets, and belongings in this cozy slice-of-life detective puzzle game. Fans of Duck Detective, Little Problems, and The Case of the Worst Day Ever ...
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FLEB @flebpuzzles.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
My next game will be "20 More, Somehow Even Smaller, Mazes". It will be free. Wishlist it today! store.steampowered.com/app/4428890/...
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20 More, Somehow Even Smaller, Mazes on Steam
A puzzle game with twenty small mazes.
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Thinky Games @thinkygames.com · 19/02/2026
Our stream is starting now!
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Joseph Mansfield @josephmansfield.uk · 19/02/2026
5 games for today's stream, including my thoughts on Loophole which I finished and loved! Will be a fun one.
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Joseph Mansfield @josephmansfield.uk · 19/02/2026
Two games, both called Piece by Piece, releasing within 2 days of each other. 😅 store.steampowered.com/app/3179050/... store.steampowered.com/app/3249380/...
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Thinky Games @thinkygames.com · 18/02/2026
Help a bunch of mining dwarves build and optimize complex train routes in Upalu Mundi!
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Upalu Mundi blends excellent train puzzles with ample opportunity for optimization · Thinky Games
Can you help a bunch of mining dwarves optimize their trickiest train routes?
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Thinky Games @thinkygames.com · 18/02/2026
The developer of Maxwell's Puzzling Demon has released a demo for their upcoming game, Tiling Town, and looks like folks are enjoying it a lot!
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Tiling Town on Steam
Open-world logic puzzle game about building towns by laying tiles.
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Blaž Urban Gracar (Letibus Design) @letibus.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
All of my puzzle games are now directly available in NYC! You can get Herd, Workworkwork, LOK and Abdec in The Brooklyn Strategist store, at 148 Pierrepont St. in Brooklyn :)
Herd in the store, with a paper slip saying: "Herd, the most recent puzzle game from Slovenian designer Blaž Gracar, is tactile and confounding. It is cute as all get out, but don't mistake that to mean it's easy. Herd is fiendishly difficult."Puzzle books in the store, with a paper slip saying: "Slovenian puzzle designer Blaž Gracar is on a roll. Abdec, LOK, and Workworkwork offer challenging puzzles that teach you gow to solve them as you go along."
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Finji @finjico.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
👾 ANNOUNCING 868-BACK! Dismantle capitalism one server at a time in this computer-hacking strategy roguelike game by Michael Brough! Play the free demo in Steam Next Fest on Feb. 23rd! Wishlist on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3304110/...
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Matt Bailey @epsilonzero.co.uk · 09/02/2026
Enjoyed this and looking forward to the full game. Has the same "you figure out the rules" vibe that I really enjoyed with Cipher Zero last year, with a distinct and elegant art style too.
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Leyreley @leyreley.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Key art I recently did for the Thinky Awards 💖 #illustration #conceptart #thinkygames
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Thinky Games @thinkygames.com · 05/02/2026
Starting now!
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Thinky Games @thinkygames.com · 04/02/2026
Congratulations to all our Thinky Awards winners and thank you to everyone who was watching live! thinkygames.com/even...
The 3rd Annual Thinky Awards. Thanks for tuning in!
The image shows our thinky hero holding up a trophy.
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