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Try finding your lost roommate in an apartment with ever-changing rooms.
In Mind Diver, it's your job to swim through other people's memories, make connections, plug memory gaps, and help solve an urgent case.
Our database editors are always hard at work expanding the range of games covered by our big Thinky Games Database: this time around we've got a whole bunch of new entries in the area of paper puzzles that don't tell you how you're supposed to solve them.
"Draknek" (aka Alan Hazelden) is the familiar designer and/or publisher name behind many classic puzzle games, and these days they're also known for a recurring program that aims to provide much-needed funding to underrepresented developers working in our relatively niche scene of thinky puzzles.
Puzzle games don’t make us feel smart, nor inspire us to 'be smart', but quite the opposite. They make fools of us. Dazzled, starry-eyed fools. And with ignorance comes bliss. Well…most of the time.
Our friends at Wholesome Games love to showcase all games cute, cozy, colorful and feel-good. Their big Steam Celebration just kicked off, featuring lots of discounts, demos and new game reveals. Here are some puzzle-adjacent picks we've pulled from the mix.
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.
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