Run a magical trinket shop and solve mysteries in this spooky puzzle adventure.
A cute new daily word game has surfaced, and you can play an example puzzle now ahead of its official launch. Tiled Words gives you a bunch of fragmented letter-chunks that need to be re-assembled into words... which you'll do with some guidance from the provided crossword-style clues.
Welcome to Thinky Third Thursday, curated by Alan Hazelden of Draknek & Friends – a monthly roundup of thinky puzzle games that have caught my eye.
Beacon Patrol is a charming and challenging tile-placement boardgame, one of my favorite co-operative games from the past few years. With its new Steam release you can work together digitally to maneuver your coast guard ships and map the islands of the North Sea.
I'm now a Picross convert thanks to this relaxing home decorating game.
Epic has been giving away a different free game every week for at least a few years now. Last week we got the first Monument Valley, an elegant and understated game about exploring sacred, mind-bending geometry, and this week the first sequel is available to claim free of charge.
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Neyyah is a Linking Book to the golden Age of first-person point-and-click adventures—and proof they deserve a comeback.
A sort of shopkeeper-detective game hybrid, Strange Horticulture found an audience of fans who liked the idea of collecting and identifying unusual plants and helping the mysterious locals with their botanical needs. Strange Antiquities, out later this week, will task you with curating and selling cursed and powerful objects instead.
Do you like stickers? Fun soundtracks? Fast-paced card battles? Us too! My Card Is Better Than Your Card! is a roguelike deckbuilder to keep an eye on.
Blaž Urban Gracar is the creator of fan-favorite works such as LOK and Abdec, paper puzzle books that you solve your way through. After the recent release Workworkwork, his next upcoming project is Herd, a solo-boardgame-book which he's showing off in a new preview video.
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