Steam Puzzle Fest 2023 is live! Here’s our list of new thinky releases and demos

The very first Steam Puzzle Fest starts today and runs until May 1st, featuring discounts on a broad range of puzzle games, including some particularly thinky ones that caught our attention. To help you find the freshest thinky games, we’ve gathered up a bunch of newly released games that are releasing or featuring new demos specifically as part of the festival.

We have an alien Sokoban, sushi-loving robots, a modern reinterpretation of the Sisyphean myth, and so much more! Perhaps you’ll find something new that’ll pique your interest… or rediscover an old love?

Developer: Zuza Games
Platforms: Windows

A journey through a vibrant alien world filled with puzzles. Reshape the level space with the help of unique mechanics.

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Developer: Layton Hawkes
Platforms: Windows

A challenging, brain-bending game of logic that mixes a traditional sliding puzzle with the art of candy making.

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Developer: Spritewrench
Platforms: Windows

Take control of P.O.L.L.I – the Procedural Operating Layered Linguistic Intelligence – and put your skills to the test with 100+ challenging puzzles! Unravel a mysterious experiment overseen by the brilliant “Scientist”, their trusted “Assistant”, and the shady “Stakeholder”.

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Developer: Centi Games
Platforms: Windows

Play as Sisyphus in the ancient Greek underworld, clearing obstacles and pushing your special rock towards the target in over 60 levels of this short Sokoban-like puzzle game with a 1-bit art style.

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Developer: Kikimora Games
Platforms: Windows, Linux, SteamOS

A small puzzle game about getting out of big trouble! Trapped in a prison, a Wizard uses telekinesis to push and pull their way out and escape together with newfound friends!

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Developer: Icedrop Games
Platforms: Windows, MacOS, Linux, SteamOS

Constellations is a puzzle game about finding patterns in the stars. Increase mindfulness, concentration and focus through an endless number of increasingly complex mechanics.

Developer: Marcos Donnantuoni
Platforms: Windows, MacOS, Linux, SteamOS

Single-player puzzle game about a slug searching for food in a dream-like world of portals, flowers and perils.

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Developer: Danga
Platforms: Windows

Manipulate gravity, walk on walls, and use your magical arrow to solve mind-bending puzzles in this grid-based dungeon puzzler.

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Developer: Under the Bed Games
Platforms: Windows

Tales from Candleforth is a collection of fairy tales that were written on top of a forbidden book many years ago to hide its content. Years later, the dark text is bleeding out and onto the pages of the tales, mixing with them and twisting the stories.

Developer: Lennart Bours
Platforms: Windows

Enter an open world where you never know what you will find behind the next door. Explore, think, solve, and be amazed as the impossible becomes possible.

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Developer: Kalinarm
Platforms: Windows, Linux, SteamOS

Unleash your creativity with Linkito! Connect blocks to solve unique puzzles and create your own masterpieces. A sandbox puzzle game with endless possibilities. Join the Linkito community and share your puzzles with the world.

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Developer: Toombler
Platforms: Windows

A puzzle game about capturing a creature. Learn to guide it and hide from it in simple yet surprisingly deep and satisfying ways.

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Developer: Sad Owl Studios
Platforms: Windows

Challenge perception, redefine reality, and reshape the world around you with an instant camera. Viewfinder is a new single player game offering gamers hours of interesting and fun experiences while uncovering the mysteries left behind.

Developer: Dead Pixel Tales
Platforms: Windows

A relaxing and charming puzzle game about Roberto, a dog who really loves loooooooong sticks with a plan in mind.

Developer: Michael Pohling, Osama Yahya
Platforms: Windows, MacOS, Linux, SteamOS

Welcome to Squid Grid! A free puzzle challenge about a squid on a grid. Unique sokoban mechanics, cute art, and hand-crafted levels will give you a puzzle experience you won’t forget. Get Squid Griddin’!

Developer: Ludipe & Friends
Platforms: Windows, Mac

These robots are obsessed with sushi and you’re the one serving it to them.

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Developer: José Hernández, Draknek and Friends
Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux, SteamOS

An elegant pathfinding puzzle game about chemistry.

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Developer: SpaceMatra
Platforms: Windows

A puzzle game starring mischievous fairies. Solve levels by working as a team, operating dangerous machinery and manipulating local wildlife.

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Developer: RD Interactive
Platforms:  Windows

Hackshot is a twisted puzzle take on artillery games. You are a hacker with the ability to craft unique projectiles, by mixing and matching different abilities. Use your crafting imagination to hack in creative ways.

Developer: Bunstack
Platforms:  Windows

The buns… you HAVE to capture them!! Think outside the bunburrow or get outsmarted by bunnies in this pathfinding-based puzzle game!

Developer: Connor Warrington
Platforms: Windows

Sit back and relax with Alone… Switch control across a variety of characters, use their unique traits to help overcome numerous platforming puzzles, and discover the truth behind your lost memories.

Developer: Frambosa
Platforms: Windows

Solve challenging puzzles as a cube with a butt. Flip, push and fart your way through colorful levels as you rescue your adorable friends in need. Fart for freedom!

Developer: Cole Jefferies
Platforms: Windows

A procedurally-generated sandbox stealth game with a whole city of secrets at your fingertips!