Watch below
Join our hosts, Rachel and Joe, for more than 40 exclusive thinky trailers and announcements!
Events > Thinky Direct > 2026
We're delighted to be back with our second Thinky Direct, even bigger and better, showcasing heaps of amazing thinky games that you won't want to miss.
Backpack Boy is off on one of his treks when he discovers a peculiar flashlight that changes the world around him. Explore a seemingly abandoned structure in this puzzle platformer built around using light to shine into the past.
Bulbo's Belief System is a puzzle-platformer where knowledge is both a tool and an obstacle. Bulbo believes everything he's told, letting him see, move, and interact, but he can forget! Erase walls from existence, ignore gravity and manage conflicting beliefs to solve cute mind-bending challenges.
Burn With Me is a story-centric deckbuilder filled with cozy dread and occultic mysteries. In order to summon a Personal Demon you'll master inventive gameplay with position-based synergies, and permanently burn your cards and your soul.
Cat Squeeze is a cozy, brain-teasing cat puzzle game. Playing as an explosive kitten, use the extrusion of the pipeline, and navigate a maze to collect fish treats! Solve puzzles with precise blasts to escape, or get trapped by the soft maze.
A challenging puzzle game where you are what you eat - and you have four stomachs. Your four directions of movement are also inventory slots, and items in those slots will affect only that direction of movement.
Panpipe Studio, Whitethorn Games
In Colorbound, color is more than just hue. As Anku, an Aymara boy with a unique gift, you’ll harness the power of color to shape the environment itself, uncovering hidden paths to navigate challenging and complex puzzles.
A mind and space-bending puzzle game where you fold space to cheat your way through puzzles. Master space manipulation and reach beyond the stars to uncover the mystery at the end of the universe.
Explore the scenes, find clues, and sort out people, pets, and belongings in this cozy slice-of-life detective puzzle game. Fans of Duck Detective, Little Problems, and The Case of the Worst Day Ever will enjoy this new deduction game for all ages.
Blookerstein, Draknek & Friends
In an ancient temple deep beneath the world, a primordial god with the power to manipulate space awakens, and threatens to bring about the end of all things. To sate the god, you have been offered as a sacrifice from the surface, and must master Dittori, the god’s forbidden power.
A time loop metroidbrainia where time is your best resource and secrets are your only upgrades. You're the last of the Weavers, a remnant of a ruined society trapped in a glitching time loop. Explore what remains. Uncover the mystery. Perfect the loop.
borbware, Coyote Time Publishing
A creature-scanning metroidvania. Explore an ancient paradise before it's lost forever. Study the EMUUROM creatures, document your findings in the EMUUDEX, and use what you learn to unlock new paths.
Coin Crew Games, iam8bit Presents
Class is (back) in session with Escape Academy 2: Back 2 School! Play in solo or co-op and explore an all-new campus, escape life-threatening puzzle rooms, and unravel a conspiracy as old as the school itself — all before the bell rings.
A new-gen detective adventure combining deduction gameplay with a gripping story full of twists and turns. Gather clues, establish connections, and solve a series of increasingly challenging cases. Will you uncover the feud that began at the end of the world?
Search the ashes of an abandoned Latin American town and uncover 500 years of secrets. A non-linear mystery where you travel back in time and untangle the complex history of a community cursed by supernatural forces.
A puzzler about sliding penguins and walruses. Pick up items to push, pull, bounce, swap, stop, steal, or explode. Uncover surprising twists hidden in a world of puzzles inside puzzles inside puzzles.
Danga Games, Draknek & Friends
A first person puzzle game about walking on walls, manipulating gravity, and discovering secrets. Delve deep into a labyrinth of intricate conundrums, seeking the god at the centre of it all.
Hello Again is a time-looping adventure about mystical ruins, ancient secrets, and goofy weirdos. Play as a hapless ferret shipwrecked on a strange island, stuck inside a strange time loop. Explore forgotten ruins. Befriend silly strangers. Solve time-bound puzzles. Repeat for the rest of eternity.
Explore the depths of the ocean in this 2D-Puzzle-Metroidvania! Control the water levels and switch between various robots to solve the ancient puzzles of Atlantis.
Swing Swing Submarine, ARTE France
Hello, this is Fael... Listen, this is going to sound strange, but... I think I'm lost in the apartment. Right now... I... I don't know where I am. Can you come and help me?
In this game YOU make the maps! Become the cartographer of a small adventure crew and use proper navigation tools like a real explorer. Map the environment to turn unknown islands into a hand-drawn journey toward a legendary treasure.
Memory’s Reach is a first person puzzle-adventure metroidvania. Explore labyrinthian megastructures, solve mind-bending puzzles, and wield fantastic alien technology in a quest to reveal the legacy of a doomed civilization.
A puzzle game about transforming into animals by mimicking their movement. Discover creative ways to wield this power while solving mind-bending puzzles. And attempt to unearth the many secrets of the meadows.
In MONOMOON, the way forward is reserved for the knowing and the daring. Guided by moonlight, you’ll uncover hidden truths and wander through a tiny and mysterious open world.
Outpour is a puzzle game where you redirect flowing water across dreamy cathedral rooftops. Manipulate your surroundings to guide a dynamic water system, traverse high places, and restore harmony to sacred structures.
A challenging puzzle adventure about learning an alien language. Explore a strange world and meet its cute inhabitants. Decipher the language and earn their trust. With every word learned, you will uncover more secrets. Can you solve the mystery of this world and decide the fate of the Pikku?
Build thriving settlements. Weave intricate trade routes. Optimize complex supply chains to earn divine boons. Master a meditative City Builder where board-game logic meets deep Resource Management. A relaxing, 'real-time with pause' strategy puzzle where every decision is yours to undo.
Begin your new job as a servant at the mysterious Vanderboom estate. Solve puzzles, serve the family and uncover their dark alchemical secrets in Servant of the Lake, a new upcoming single-player point-and-click adventure in the Rusty Lake series.
STRETCH THE WORLD! In this comedic first-person puzzle adventure, you are The Stretchmancer. Squash and stretch everything around you to solve fiendish puzzles, defeat the Claustro Empire, and save the galaxy!
Play as Madeleine, a retired granny recruited by the Granny Detective Society (basically the FBI… but add dentures). Investigate your neighbors, figure out their names and professions, and uncover all their secrets in this no-murder detective game full of white hair and mugs of tea.
A hand-painted adventure puzzle game where language is magic. Explore a mysterious land, decipher ancient scripts, and solve language-based puzzles to uncover the secrets of a lost civilization.
Michal Kluz, Patrycja Sagan, Fabien Calabria
An exploration puzzle adventure in mystical ruins. Explore a world filled with puzzles, uncover the magic left behind, discover what's hidden in plain sight, learn the rules and break them.
A puzzle game about drawing lines that cross, merge, and interact in unique ways. Uncover secrets, decipher symbols, and trace paths that satisfy every rule.
Discover hidden truths about the world in this 3D adventure about a giraffe with an unreasonably long neck. Figure out the rules, solve strange mysteries, and stumble upon unexpected twists. Choose your own path.
Command a bizarre crew across a tiny, ever-changing archipelago. Give precise orders, outwit unshapely monsters, and survive the journey one squad at a time.
Outsmart your past self in a battle of cause and effect. Explore an interconnected clay world, discover its hidden rules, and uncover the secrets it would rather keep buried.
Thinky games are those you love to solve — all about logic and reasoning, rather than fast reflexes or dexterity. If you find yourself thinking through a problem and then, when the insights finally dawn on you, exclaiming “aha!”, you’re probably playing a thinky game.
You can take a look at our Thinky Essentials or start browsing our thinky database to discover some of these amazing games.
The Thinky Direct is a digital event that showcases exclusive trailers and announcements for some of the most exciting upcoming thinky games. For about an hour on 28th May, at 6pm BST (10am PDT, 1pm EDT), join fellow thinky fans in watching our live stream of the event.
We are Thinky Games, a community of thinky fans who just love these kinds of games and want to share them with as many people as possible. Find out more about our team and what we do on our About page.
The Cerebral Puzzle Showcase is a Steam sale organized by Draknek & Friends, featuring discounts on many wonderful puzzle games from May 28th to June 4th. To make this an incredible week for fans of thinky puzzly games, our Thinky Direct is kicking off the Cerebral Puzzle Showcase on May 28th. You'll be able to see the Thinky Direct live from the Cerebral Puzzle Showcase sale page on Steam.
We sure do! Take a look at our press release, presented by FIFTYcc, right here: our press release.
We've uploaded our various logos and assets to this press kit on Google Drive.
Absolutely! Please get in touch at [email protected]
Get a free thinky game to play and discuss, plus the latest thinky news and reviews, directly to your inbox every 2 weeks!
