Sometimes things just happen to line up, and today is one of those days: no less than 4 titles that have been on our radar are officially out in the world today. Make room in your library for Strange Jigsaws, Is This Seat Taken?, Öoo and The Royal Writ.
The Mastermind-deduction-word-game Wordle inspired a tidal wave of similar designs following its stripped-down, simple approach to making a daily, sharable puzzle that you could solve in a few minutes a day while competing with friends. Here are a few of our favorite Wordle-likes.
0PLAYER is a recently released experimental puzzle game project for those who like a challenge: this free game, available for download on itch.io, consists of only a single large image that looks like the interconnected map of a typical puzzle videogame. And the rest is up to you to figure out...
The retro-Zelda inspired tropical puzzle game Isles of Sea and Sky won Most Anticipated honor at the Thinky Awards before debuting last year and living up to the hype. Now the Mysterious Update has released, a free addition to the game adding new puzzles and a mysterious secret layer.
Word Play is a new roguelike blend of Scrabble and Balatro from Game Maker’s Toolkit. It joins games like Baba Is You, LOK Digital, and Heaven’s Vault as a great game for language nerds.
Flip Voyage and Fliptown: New Frontiers are on Kickstarter now, two small boxes that expand on the world of Fliptown, a popular western sandbox game that works great solo and is played entirely using a standard deck of cards.
Discover clever ways to use bombs in this cute puzzle platformer - the demo is available to play over on Steam.
Announced and revealed in the latest Pokémon Presents video, Pokémon Friends brings Professor Layton-style variety logic puzzles with cute creature themes to Switch and mobile. With a kid-friendly challenge level and limits on available puzzles, is this something puzzle fans can get excited about?
Welcome to Thinky Third Thursday, curated by Alan Hazelden of Draknek & Friends – a monthly roundup of thinky puzzle games that have caught my eye.
Solve puzzles, make connections, and hunt down Nazis as a 1970s detective in the upcoming detective thriller game The Ratline, from Owlskip Games.
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