
Looking for your next thinky game? Here's a big list of demos from the Cerebral Puzzle Showcase you should play!

The launch lineup of games for Nintendo's newest console aren't the most exciting in terms of puzzly offerings. But the Switch 2 boasts almost perfect backwards compatibility, meaning that any of these time-tested classics are available if you're getting one soon.
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Get to know the local wildlife and seek secrets worth deciphering.

A new demo dropped today for the sequel to the popular Strange Horticulture, this time around focusing less on plants and more on magical relics and artefacts, the uses of which you'll need to deduce and identify in order to satisfy customers.

Zach Barth is best known as the founder and namesake of the studio Zachtronics, developers of such popular automation-programming games as Opus Magnum, Spacechem and Infinifactory. This time around he's on Kickstarter to produce an unusual physical game: a set of scratch-card puzzles you reveal as you play.

Parallel Experiment combines the escape room web games of the Flash era with in-person escape rooms, creating a cooperative real-time puzzle experience for two.

Spooky Express is a deceptively tricky puzzle game featuring zombies and vampires. The perfect puzzle game to sink your teeth into!

Can you go the distance in this Scrabble-style, roguelike deck-builder?

Try to boot your ball in the back of the net in grid-based puzzler, Pup Champs.

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