If you somehow managed to get through all of our thorough coverage of the Steam Summer Sale with your wallet intact and not enough games to play, don't worry: there must always be a Steam sale on the throne, and right now that sale is the Automation Fest, focused on games all about logistics, conveyor belts, and optimization.
It hasn't been much of a wait: just about two months since the release of The Lemurian Phoenix, the next installment in the Golden Idol Investigations series of DLC is suddenly here. Explore an ancient, high-tech Lemuria in this new expansion that brings four new cases to the world of the hit detective game The Rise of the Golden Idol.
Thinky Games presents a definitive guide to metroidbrania games: What they are, how different games explore the idea in their own way, and a list of our favorites.
Four games on our collective radar debuted on Steam today: some big anticipated titles like the Japanese-factory sim Kaizen from Coincidence and the word-game deckbuilder Word Play from Mark Brown of GMTK, as well as the lesser-known releases You Are the Code and Loophole.
Identify strange objects, help out the locals, explore the town of Undermere, and try to keep your spirits up in the Strange Antiquities.
The popular city-building strategy game Islanders from 2019 just got a follow up: New Shores launched this week, featuring new scoring methods, plenty of new environments and pretty visual options.
You can now engage with the Thinky Games team through our new presence on Steam: we've got a big fancy curator page where you can browse lots of game recommendations from our database, and you can also help grow the Steam community group.
Hempuli is best known for his work on the change-the-rules mind-bender Baba Is You, but he's quite a prolific developer of games. His latest is a collection of playing-card solitaire variants that just launched on Steam today.
Gentoo Rescue is special in that it is stuffed with mechanics and special interactions that twist the rules in every way possible.
Cipher Zero is a Picross-style logic puzzle game that shows nature being reclaimed as you progress through puzzles. Infer the rules of each new mechanic in a vibey post-apocalyptic world.
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