From flamboyant courtrooms to festering caverns, Gwen C. Katz tours the deckbuilder fringes to investigate why, in a genre obsessed with rules, disobedience breeds delight.

I tried out a demo of Nomori a few years back and thought it'd be good to check out what it's like now that it's finally out. The gameplay is much like I remember - solving large puzzle-chamber levels where you can pass through rotated portals to change which walls you're walking on - but clearly a

Assemble strategic alien hordes and trigger attacks against the solar system through fine-tuned dice rolls.

Puzzle design, art, development, production — learn about every aspect of crafting thinky games.

It feels like the boom in roguelike deckbuilders is starting to slow a bit, but Shroom and Gloom shows there's still some interesting innovations happening. It's a really great looking game, with an interesting core twist to the deckbuilder formula: in this game, you have an extra deck of cards that

A game jam from 2026-09-18 to 2026-09-27 hosted by Echtrae. Welcome to the Rule-Discovery Paper Puzzle Game Jam! Your goal: to create and submit a rule-discovery paper puzzle within the length of the ...

FLEB recently released another free game on Steam packed full of 20 more small, silly, innovative and charming mazes. (Plus some bonus maze content from the community.)

This is the second part of our stream playing Big Walk, an open world co-operative puzzle game from the creators of Untitled Goose Game. Our whole team - Joe, Cay, Corey, Devin, Oriane, and Luis - explored more of the world and found a labyrinth! @JoePlaysPuzzleGames and Team Thinky play Big Walk b

A Guide Arrow puzzle designed by Prasanna Seshadri for Thinky Dailies.

Catch up on Thinky Dailies here: https://thinkygames.com/dailies/ Start season 4: https://thinkygames.com/dailies/puzzles/4/ Solve this puzzle: https://thinkygames.com/dailies/puzzles/4-10/ 0:00 Intro 0:30 Guide Arrow rules 1:48 Solve 5:11 Outro #thinkygames #puzzlegame #dailypuzzle ThinkyGames.

Collect fireflies in a garden full of strange plants that react to your movement.

Rotate portals and record object movement to navigate a whimsical spirit world.

Rivage is a first-person space-station exploration puzzle game out today alongside a new DLC for Escape Simulator 2 that features a range of post-apocalyptic puzzle rooms.

Discover gentle puzzles as a forest spirit helping animals and trees to prepare for the winter.

Curb urban loneliness through bizarre puzzles.

Investigate an infamous cold case in the eerie, abandoned town of Painscreek. Search for evidence, connect the dots and uncover who killed Vivian Roberts. Can you expose the truth behind this town’s dark secrets?

Solve grid-based puzzles by changing the shape of your characters.

I'd tried the demo of Cat Squeeze already, but it was fun to jump back in, replay a few levels, and see some new stuff. It's just a really neat little sokoban game! I'm curious what other mechanics get introduced later in the game (I've seen a few things in screenshots), but already the core mechani

Create islands and connect rivers to solve relaxing Nurikabe logic puzzles.

Explore the puzzling rooms of a space station stuck in orbit with limited power.

I wanted to check out Nero and Sci specifically because it was a little tricky to understand what kind of game it is from its store page. In particular, I wanted to know exactly how it explores math puzzles through its gameplay. So it turns out it's ultimately a level-based platformer with a variety

Face additional escape room challenges in a deserted, ruined near-future world.

Split into copies of yourself to clear puzzles inspired by modern physics and parallel worlds.

For this special stream, we got the whole Thinky Games team together - me, Cay, Corey, Devin, Oriane, and Luis - to try out Big Walk, a new open world co-operative puzzle game from the creators of Untitled Goose Game. In this first part, we get ourselves familiar with the game, explore a little, sol

A puzzle game with twenty small mazes.

This upcoming exploration game is about "uncovering hidden truths" with "no proper instructions." Consider our interest piqued.

Each maze includes a unique mechanic that turns it into a sweet puzzle treat.